Part one of term paper
Throughout the age of man, the study of depression related illnesses had been very minimal to say the least. Not much could be learned about depression until this century because not much was known about the chemistry and the psychology of the brain; the basis of where and why people get depressed. Depression is caused by many different fac ...

Part two of term paper
... to view depression as a personality trait, something that can be dropped like a grudge or a bad mood. In fact, depression can be very emotionally crippling and like any other disease it just cannot be dropped or forgotten. To understand the course of depression, it is first necessary to define exactly what depression is and what causes it. Heredity seems to play a major part in many cases of depression. “Studies of families, in which members of each generation develop bipolar disorder, found t ...