What is Depression ?

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Dr Lakshmi Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK), Psychiatrist discusses depression as a mood disorder.

Dr Lakshmi Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK), Psychiatrist discusses depression as a mood disorder.

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Featuring Dr. Lakshmi Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK)

Presenter: Dr. Lakshmi Yatham, Psychiatrist, Vancouver, BC

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Patients with depression can suffer mild symptoms such as feeling sad for an hour or two once in awhile.

2

Clinical depression involves patients feeling sad all the time for weeks and sometimes even months.

3

Depression is quite common these days and effects 1 in 7 people.

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