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Are you depressed? (I was.)

I didn’t really know what was wrong with me until I—a 42-year-old professor!—was sitting in a seminar about major depression and its consequences.

  1. Depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks

  2. A mood that is a change from normal

  3. Impaired social, occupational, educational functioning

  4. Specific symptoms—at least five of the following nine—nearly every day: