General Article Does depression exist?

Topic Selected: Depression Book Volume: 404

It’s not as strange a question as it might sound. Does depression exist? I don’t mean to imply that those with depression should just ‘pull themselves together’: of course depression symptoms exist (and are sometimes life-ruining). And of course those symptoms often overlap with each other, which certainly implies that there’s a common cause. But is there a thing we can point to in someone’s brain – or some identifiable part of their psychology – that’s called ‘depression’?

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