{"id":1229,"date":"2016-07-03T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2017-03-29T00:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T04:22:46","slug":"depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is Depression?<\/h2>\n<p>Characterized by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A low mood for most of the time for at least 2 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Suicidal thoughts\/plans\/ideas, fantasizing about death and dying, fascination with death and dying<\/li>\n<li>Tired and fatigued most of the time for at least 2 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Excessively sleeping (hypsomnia) or having difficulty sleeping (insomnia) for at least 2 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Eating less\/eating more than usual<\/li>\n<li>Rapid weight loss or weight gain within a month<\/li>\n<li>Not interested in things that used to interest them<\/li>\n<li>Feeling bored all of the time for at least 2 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Not interested in friends or family, isolation, avoidance of social situations<\/li>\n<li>Feeling more irritable than normal, feeling irritable out of context for at least 2 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Trouble concentrating for at least 2 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Feeling \u201cscattered\u201d in their thinking\/thought process<\/li>\n<li>Crying for no reason\/excessively crying<\/li>\n<li>Feeling numb, empty or feeling nothing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Symptoms, and the diagnosis<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Major Depressive Disorder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Severe depression that comes on suddenly and seems to have no external cause, or has had an external cause but symptoms have lasted longer than 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>(Adjustment disorder occurs when symptoms experienced occur after a major life change, this lasts 1-3 months. After 3 months if symptoms are still being experienced than a diagnosis of Major Depression may occur)<\/p>\n<p>Major Depression includes persistent feelings of sadness\/despair, a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure and physical symptoms such as headaches, more pain or trouble sleeping. This is diagnosed when someone experiences at least 1 Major Depressive Episode, along with at least 5 of the symptoms mentioned above for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Depression? Characterized by: A low mood for most of the time for at least 2 weeks Suicidal thoughts\/plans\/ideas, fantasizing about death and dying, fascination with death and&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/depression\/\">Continue Reading<span> Depression<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}