depression
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Another, in the UK, says she finds it "belittling" when people assume an unhappy mum must be suffering from postnatal depression.
From BBC
Around 10 years old is when Kaley remembered having her first feelings of anxiety and depression, disorders for which she would be diagnosed years later by a therapist.
From BBC
The actor stars in an oddly but infectiously upbeat production on Broadway, full of inventive audience participation, about a man shadowed by his mother’s depression.
Another audience member sensitively played Sam, the narrator’s love of his life, a relationship that reveals the long-term toll of being raised by a parent suffering from suicidal depression.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Macmillan doesn’t lose sight of the central truths about clinical depression: that the causes are often inscrutable, its persistence can be intractable, and temporary relief often leads only to recurrence.
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