[pritchke]

Originally posted by Sigmar: I was talking about Clinical Depression, and what was the difference beteen being depressed and clinically depressed, and what are the symptons. Thanks for all your feedback thus far guys.

]The symptoms could be the same for both. Plain Depression is mental, affected and caused by outside forces like your boss is a dick, your girl friend dumped you. While most people get over this type of stuff some do not and it can start becoming clinically depressed. Usually some advice from Dr. Phil can get people on track, or they can take medication for a little while until they start to realize it is just there mind.

Clinical is almost all physical, the chemicals in your brain are in an imbalanced state. Nothing at all could have occurred to make you feel like crap. Say when something like a girlfriend dumping you occurs, you feel sad and you do have chemical changes occur but eventually they will reset and go back to normal once you stop feeling sorry for yourself. With clinical the chemicals in your brain just are not going to balance themselves, possibly ever without the proper medications and no amount of advice from Dr. Phil will ever help. You are just stuck that way. The symptoms for clinical can vary from extreme (voices in your head, someone controlling you) to just normal depression feelings (sadness for no reason for long periods, normal depression there could be sadness for a long period but there is a hard reason that caused it), but unlike normal depression they will never go away without help. That's the best I can do to describe the difference.

[ 02-10-2005, 05:15 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]