How Is Clinical Depression Diagnosed? – In this About.com video, learn about how depression is diagnosed, and its various forms.

What is depression?

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If someone in your immediate family has been diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder (manic depression), you are two to three times more likely to have a similar diagnosis yourself. Twin studies have found that genetics increase the risk of …
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Requiem for DSM

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The historian Edward Shorter describes how the initial goal had been to include severe depression as a scientifically valid psychiatric diagnosis, since so many milder depressive presentations (which used to be called “neurotic depression”) can happen …
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