COPING WITH DEPRESSION
Section 1: About depression What is depression? Depression is a very painful and difficult human experience. Depression is actually quite common – it affects about one in ten people at some time in their lives. For some people, it might happen only once and pass quite quickly without any outside help. For others, depression may be more of a problem – it may last longer or come back multiple times – in these cases, it may require treatment. Sometimes depression can be so severe it requires admission to the hospital. Because many people are ashamed of feeling depressed and try to hide it, you may not have realised that it is quite so common – but it is. Symptoms of depression Depression has many different symptoms. It is very often characterised by feeling sad, “blue”, and miserable it effects how you feel, act, and think. Some of the most common symptoms of depression are listed below. • Depressed mood. Feeling low, sad, miserable, hopeless, or irr...