Mental health and personal growth – depression as an adaptation
Posted on September 4, 2009
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According to The National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 21 million American adults, or about 9.5 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year, have a mood disorder, including major depression, dysthymia (chronic, mild depression), and bipolar disorder. [From my article Making Good Use of Depression .] [Photo: actor Hayden Christensen from the book Crying Men , by photographer Sam Taylor-Wood.] As someone with long-term, but (usually) mild form of it, I have
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Mental health and personal growth – depression as an adaptation
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