Great Depression Research Paper

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Depression is a treatable mental illness that affects one though process, feelings, and actions. Its duration and treatment process vary with the patient. Depression was first called "melancholia". In the past years, Depression was connected to demonic possession, as all mental illnesses were, and was attended to by priests by using exorcism techniques, such as beatings, restraint, and starvation to drive demons out of the body whereas, some like early Roman and Greek doctors, thought that depression was both a biological and psychological disease and used gymnastics, massage, special diets, music, and many more as treatments.
As we humans progress so does theories about the causes of depression change. Depression symptoms varies from mild