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This week I explore depression…………….often referred to as “the black dog” because it’s dark, haunting and always ready to pounce on vulnerable people when they least expect it.

What is depression? What predisposes people to suffer from depression? What causes depression? What are the symptoms and how is it diagnosed?

I used to think that people who were ‘depressed’ were self indulgent………….they should ’smarten themselves up’ and ‘get on with it’ like the rest of us…………………that was until I was ‘bitten’ by the ‘Black Dog”.

Depression was contrasted with grief by Sigmund Freud in 1917 in his essay “Mourning and Melancholia”. What are the differences between clinical depression and grief? How does our contemporary understanding differ from Freud’s first ideas
about grief?

What have we learned and how can we help and support people living with depression? How do the needs of people living with depression differ from those of grieving people?

Tune in and learn a little about depression………..an illness that is worryingly underdiagnosed because people are too frightened, too ignorant or too overwhelmed by their symptoms to seek help.

Music provided by Simpatico

For further information and support on all aspects of depression contact Beyond Blue or Depressionnet

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