major depression

• mental disorder that affects a person's mood
• emotional characteristics


  low mood
• emotional characteristics


  loss of pleasure
• cognitive characteristics


  irrational negative beliefs
• cognitive characteristics


  difficulty concentrating
• behavioural characteristics


  change in apetite
• behavioural characteristics


  change in sleep patterns
• behavioural characteristics


  social withdrawal
• must experience at least 5 symptoms for more than 2 weeks to be diagnosed with depression