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It is a staggering fact that according to the World Health Organization, 100 million people are depressed at any one time. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of people in the United Kingdom consulting their doctors complaining of depression more than doubled. Winston Churchill referred to depression as his ‘black dog’, and Samuel Johnson called it, ‘this vile melancholy’. When in its grip, Abraham...

area. Is there a point along the scale where a mood becomes a condition? This is one of the great difficulties facing those who are seeking to help the depressed. Great wisdom is needed in determining the intensity and extent of the condition. The problem for the caring professionals is summed up by Mark Radcliffe, the Mental Health Editor of the Nursing Times: ‘Depression is a terrible thing—like treacle on the soul.’ It is crippling, life threatening and debilitating. Unhappiness isn’t any of these
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