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Depression

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  Total Pages: 1.95
  Total Words: 488
  Total Characters: 2433
  Number of Sentences: 27


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  Words per Sentences: 18.07
  Characters per Words: 4.99


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  Flesch Reading Ease: 60.38
  Fog Scale Level: 12.72
  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9.33  

Depression

     Depression is a serious health problem that could affect anybody, at any age.  It's more than the down feeling that everybody experiences from time to time.  Depression involves a "down" mood, along with some other symptoms, and lasts for more than a couple of weeks.  This problem affects the total person, and in adition to all the feelings, it can change behavior, physical health, and appearance, academic performance, and the ability to handle, normal, everyday decisions and pleasures.
     Depression is diagnosed by a group of symptoms that occurs for more than a few weeks, and interferes with normal life.  These symptoms are caused by alteration in brain chemistry, which can be triggered by illness, stress, frustration, or grief.  After two or three years, a more normal chemistry reappears on its own, and the person is cured, even without medical treatment.  But if the brain alteration goes untreated, a majority of the people will attempt suicide, and 17% will succeed.
     Depression can also occur during childhood and adolescence.  Some causes for depression include a family histoy of verbal, physical, or sexual abuse.  The separation or loss of a loved one, a family history of depression, incarceration, pregnancy, lower social statuses, homosexuality, and mental retardation could also cause a child or young adult to become depressed.  Doctors say that the depression symptoms for kids are the same as in adults, except that children suffer more from physical symptoms such a...

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