🔼: [[💡 Depression]] # Clinical Depression An episodic condition that comes and goes, lasting from two weeks to a year. Even Clinical Depression will get better on its own without treatment, regardless of its cause. It will get better with time. Treatments for Clinical Depression (medication, [[💡 Therapy]], mind-body practices like [[👟 Asana Practice]], [[🕯️ Movement Practices 👟]], and [[⭐️ Nutrition]]) reduce the duration, frequency, and severity of the episodes. Clinical depression invents problems that don't really exist. Life changes won't fix clinical depression. ## Diagnoses - [[🔑 Psychiatric diagnoses are almost useless]] - [[💡 Major Depressive Disorder]] - [[🔑 Psychiatric diagnoses are almost useless]] [^1]: [[📖 🟠 Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health]] - Clinical vs. Non-Clinical Depression