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What is the difference between clinical vs. chronic depression
Posted On 08/23/2010 19:32:11 by summer2010

Just read a blog where a person committed suicide.  He was clinically depressed according to author.  What is the difference between the two or is there one?  She also spoke of limbic disease which I found very interesting apparently the part of the brain that controls depression.  Anyone have any comments of limbic disease?  I was depressed today sometimes the loneliness of the disease gets to me but I remember an earlier blog to work at not being depressed - it takes a lot of work...  (about a person who committed suicide)

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From: summer2010
08/24/2010 14:40:59


Sarah171 wrote:


From"A user's guide to the brain" -prolonged sadness can cause sustained overactivity in the amygdala and frontal lobe. some speculate this can cause neuronal burnout in these areas,either by depleting their stores of neurotransmitters or crippling  the ability of these chemicals to transmit messages.  When this occurs,sadness can slip into depression, which is characterized by emotional numbness rather than intense feeling.
Thanks for the comment.  So that would be chronic depression's definition.  What is considered clinical depression - is that short termed depression?

From: Sarah171
08/23/2010 21:11:35

From"A user's guide to the brain" -prolonged sadness can cause sustained overactivity in the amygdala and frontal lobe. some speculate this can cause neuronal burnout in these areas,either by depleting their stores of neurotransmitters or crippling  the ability of these chemicals to transmit messages.  When this occurs,sadness can slip into depression, which is characterized by emotional numbness rather than intense feeling.

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