Handling Acute Depression: Tips from a Christian Counselor
Jessica Gallant
For many people, depression is an ongoing experience that lasts for years and even decades. They never manage to fully eliminate depression from their lives, though not for a lack of trying. Long-lasting depression like this is known as chronic depression, or recurrent major depressive disorder. On the other hand, some people have never experienced depression before, but have suddenly become so severely depressed that they cannot function in their daily lives. A sudden, severe episode of depression like this is known as acute depression. Since the 2020s, research shows that as many as 21 million adults across the country experience acute depression in the course of a year. Although...
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