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Understanding Depression [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Ainsworth Patricia, M.D. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Understanding Depression [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (187 p.)
Disciplina: 616.85/27
616.8527
Soggetto topico: Affective disorders
Depression, Mental
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. What Is Depression?; 2. Who Gets Depressed?; 3. The Causes of Depression; 4. What Happens in the Brain; 5. Treatment; 6. Helping the Depressive; 7. Searching for a Cure; Appendices; Glossary; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Depression has been a scourge of mankind since the dawn of ages. Vivid images from historical and religious texts describe sufferers of the illness we now know as depression. An ""equal opportunity"" illness, it exempts no one based on race, sex, creed, religion, social status, or nation of origin. It affects one in five of us and its potentially lethal outcome--suicide--is the third leading cause of death among American teenagers. What is this illness that costs us 44 billion each year? What does it look like? Is it moodiness? Is it the result of a character flaw? Can we just ""snap out of i
Titolo autorizzato: Understanding Depression  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-48588-1
1-60473-063-3
0-585-22652-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455501803321
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