Hello everybody. I thought this would be a good article to be read about Clinical Depression and Addiction (this article mostly talks about depression and will talk about addiction later). You can go to helpguide.

org for more information about depression. Tell a friend.----------------Welcome back, everyone.

As you know, this site is all about collaborative articles about all kinds of adversity, misfortune, etc., then making a positive remark or aiming to resolve the problems by talking about it. It can be done in any form: discussion, debate, email, reading articles like this.

..whatever.

For the first time ever, I will discuss world-renowned people who will pique your interest to this site: CELEBRITIES.My site is not going to be centered around celebrities, but may use them as fair examples. I don t aim to gossip about or bad-mouth them, but rather address the problem, pray, and then move on.

So...

the first thing I m going to talk about is clinical depression, and then addiction. Listen carefully, world-- Go and tell it. Clinical depression is another name for major depressive disorder or unipolar depression.

It is a state of intense despair, sadness, distraughtness, advanced enough to the point where all activities performed before the depression stage come to a screeching halt. It has become the #1 mental disorder and the 2nd most disabling condition in the world behind heart disease. It is growing at an alarming rate, and that rate has got to drop through the authority of Jesus--He does save!

Signs of depression may be weight loss/gain, insomnia or hypersomnia, suicide attempts, concentration difficulties, delusions, etc. It affects about 7-18% of the American population before reaching 40. The National Institute of Mental Health says that 1 in 10 American adults--or 21 million people--go through or hide depression.

In some countries it is even higher, like Australia for example, which has 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men in depression.I will give more information on depression in the next article, but for now, I want to give a few names of those who had, or is currently, dealing with depression: Sheryl Crow, Jim Carrey, Harrison Ford..

.that I know of. There are pro- football players, basketball players, and other actors and businesspeople dealing with these problems.

It tends to set them back from their everyday endeavors. Again, I want to address the problems of depression. There are so many websites that talk about these kind of problems; I took information from sources and COLLABORATED them here so that you won t have to surf the net.

Isn t that convenient?..

..God bless you and let s rid depression and addiction from the hurting.

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Overall good post but...

"It is growing at an alarming rate, and that rate has got to drop through the authority of Jesus--He does save!"
Each case of depression is unique and "Jesus" isn't the solution for everyone, even though it might work for you. Thats all :)

Thats exactly what I was trying to say. O.o
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