What Is the Difference Between “Major Depression” and Any Other Type?

Question by Jackie Brown: What is the difference between “major depression” and any other type?
My therapist says that is what I have because I attempted suicide once….What is considered major? Isn’t depression, depression?

Best answer:

Answer by Serene E
There’s depression caused by an imbalance of chemicals in your brain and there’s environmental reasons.
But you really need to get on a medical website to find out, not listen to just anybody spouting off vague and unreliable information.

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Major Depression -Evanescense – This is a video done for my psychology class. This may be educational, but I’m sure it is interesting enough. I hope you learn and enjoy.

 

Context Does Not Determine “Disorderness” or Normality

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We suspect some kind of internal disease process at work, such as a covert malignancy; or, in the case of major depressive symptoms, we suspect what used to be called an “endogenous” depression. In this limited sense, then, the contextualists are correct.
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Forest Laboratories, Inc. Reports Fiscal Year 2013 Third Quarter Earnings

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Daliresp sales were similarly impacted by contract rebates as described above. Viibryd (vilazodone HCl), an SSRI and a partial agonist at serotonergic 5-HT1A receptors for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) recorded sales of $ 40.6 million.
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Roe v. Wade turns 40:

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… to research conducted by Fergusson et al in 2006 and again in 2008, among young women who had an abortion, there was a 61 percent increased risk of suicidal ideation, and 42 percent of the young women who aborted reported major depression by age …
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