1. Depression Prepared by: Hazel tutor

3. Seasonal affective disorder

5. Painful life events and stress

6. Negative personality

7. Health conditions

9. Changes in Feelings

12. Take your medicine for as long as your doctor tells you to take it

13. Some people with a high risk of becoming depressed again may need to take medicine for a longer time.

14. If you want to stop taking medicine, do so ONLY after talking it over with your doctor.

17. Dry mouth

18. Diarrhea or constipation

22. It is the most common mental illness, yet fewer than half of depressed people seek help.

23. Depression affects one in five people at some point in their life.

25. Depression affects people in all age groups.

26. Depression has affected countless accomplished people throughout history, including Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Peter Tchaikovsky, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, and Mike Wallace.