DEPRESSION WHAT IS DEPRESSION ? Depression is a common mental illness. It’s normal to feel sad, low and lost for some period, but if these symptoms last for at least 2 weeks, leads to depression. It’s also known as clinical depression or depressive disorder. In the US, about 4.84% of population was suffering from depression in 2017. https://www.statista.com/statistics/979880/percentage-of-people-with-depression-us/ CAUSES Researchers believe that there could be many contributing factors such as genetic, psychological, environmental and biological. Drugs prescribed for condit i ons like cancer, heart disease, diabetes and parkinson’s disease can have depression as one of their side effects or depression could also worsen these conditions. It could also be due to any disturbance in brain structure, for example, if the frontal lobe is less active. Early childhood trauma could also result in depression. Drugs and alcohol abuse are also a causative factor of depression. SIGN A...