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Depression is a mental health problem that is affecting a many people.

A depressed person will feel sad, lonely and hopeless, most people will want to be alone and cut out people. Here are some of the existent forms of depression that are affecting people today.

Classic depression, one of the most commonly faced type of depression. Introverts fall a victim of this type of depression mostly because they are the type to keep to themselves, they will keep to themselves and be sad, have bad moods towards everything and everyone.

Another form of depression is alcohol or medical induced depression that is caused when one abuses alcohol or prescribed medicine which in turn causes them to have mood swings. It can also develop when one stops taking the above mentioned substances too.

Seasonal depression is not seriously taken by a lot of people, this type of depression comes with an on and off pattern, mostly when something happens to you repeatedly, it comes on. As much as it is on , its important to make sure that treatment is found early enough.