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depression
A common psychiatric disease with pathologically depressed mood and characteristic somatic and sleep disturbance. It is divided into those forms due to external factors, and those where depression arises without obvious cause, including manic-depressive illness. Antipressants and psychotherapy are among the treatments used.
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