Depression, common causes and 7 symptoms of depression one ought to know Presently depression is the most common mental health disorder which is capable of killing someone. Almost all of us feel low at some point of life due to the problems we encounter. If the emotions like sadness, feeling like crying, bad mood are temporary that is not depression. Depression is a phase where the bad emotion like feeling sad, worthless and unwilling or loss of interest in doing any work which was pleasurable before, lasts for weeks, months or even years. Getting yourself or someone close to you out of depression takes a lot of effort. In the absence of such effort the person going through depression may even die. Fortunately it is not impossible to get someone out from depression. For, the sake of humanity it is our moral duty to put forward a helping hand to those person who are suffering from this dangerous mental illness. There are various professionals like ...