Types Of Depression💙

In this video, I'd just like to go through the different types of depression. So there's major depression, which is what people think of as "depression". So that's low mood symptoms and all the other symptoms that come with depression for at least two weeks. That's also known as major depressive disorder, MDD, and clinical depression. 💙

Then there's also persistent depressive disorder, which is PDD. That used to be known as dysthymia. That's when you have generally lower level symptoms of depression, but for in excess of two years. 💙

There's also seasonal affective disorder, SAD. 💙

There's also PMDD, which is premenstrual dysphoric disorder. 💙

There's also bipolar disorder, which is when symptoms of depression are interspersed with episodes of mania. 💙

And there's also peripartum or postpartum depression, used to be known as postnatal depression. 💙