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What is depressive disorder? so depressive disorder, sometimes called clinical depression, sometimes called major depressive disorder, is a mood disorder.
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So it's a mood disorder, and it's characterized by what we call low mood.
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So symptoms that come with low mood, and these have to last at least two weeks, so it can't just be a rough week, are things like being very sad or even being very numb.
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Having a very low kind of opinion of the self, so being very self -critical.
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And this being self -critical can actually reach the point of delusion for some patients.
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They can believe that they are the worst person on earth, and they're a burden on everybody, and they don't deserve help.
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And from the outside, we would recognize that this is obviously false.
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But for the person, it's real, and they can't be shaken out of it...