This disorder that affects your thoughts, moods, feelings, behavior and physical health. ... Physical depression symptoms can be masked in chronic problems with headaches, or stomach aches. Indigestion can also be physical depression symptoms as can sleeping too much or too little and weight loss or gain. ... Like other depression disorders, manic depression is influenced by heredity and physical chemistry along with certain personality traits. ... There are treatments available for clinical depression that involve correcting brain chemistry through medications and therapeutic approaches to...

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Abnormal brain chemistry also plays a role. ... The most severe are disorganized (hebephrenic) schizophrenia, characterized by hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate laughing and crying, incoherent speech, and infantile behavior; and catatonic schizophrenia, characterized by physical rigidity or hyperactivity. ... Medical imaging studies have revealed various physical and physiological anomalies in some patients. ...

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According to researchers major depressive disorder is a combination of brain chemistry, family history and psychosocial environment and most often is associated with chemical imbalances of several neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine. ... It is also important to note that many depressive episodes occur spontaneously and are not triggered by a life crisis, physical illness or other risks". ...

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Hinshaw suggested that a commonly attempted explanations for behaviors characteristic of mental disorders and illnesses are the belief that the conditions and behaviors associated with untreated disorder are the result of demonic possession or influence or the work of mysterious "evil" forces, and the idea that the behaviors are the result of contagious disease or physical ailment (54). ... Bethesda followed with '' As scientists continue to investigate the brains of people who have mental illnesses, they are learning that mental illness is associated with changes in the b...

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