What is clinical depression?
Clinical depression is a serious illness where depressed feelings set in and continue for a long time making it impossible to continue with life in a normal way.
Clinical depression affects your:
- Feelings
- Thoughts
- Behaviour
- Bodily functions
When suffering from clinical depression, you have less control over your mood and feelings. You feel depressed day after day, sometimes for many months. This frame of mind takes over and clinical depression colours all aspects of your life:
Is depression a life-threatening illness?
At its most severe, depression can be life-threatening as you:
- Grind to a halt.
- Lose your appetite and thirst
- Are so miserable that you may contemplate suicide
- Neglect self care
Our advice is to help anyone with clinical depression to get treatment - you may save someone's life.
If you suspect that you are suffering from depression, you should seek treatment.