What do you know about clinical depression? Is your information fact or fiction? Take the iFred quiz to find out. Answer true or false to these questions.

 
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1. True or False, clinical depression is the most common serious brain disease in the U. S.

2. True or False, people of all ages, backgrounds, lifestyles, and nationalities suffer from major clinical depression.

3. True or False, eighty percent of those properly treated for clinical depression show an improvement in their symptoms generally within 4 to 6 weeks.

4. True or False, more people die from suicide than from homicide.

5. True or False, psychotropic drugs are the only way to treat clinical depression.

6. True or False, men do not suffer from clinical depression.

7. True or False, clinical depression costs the U. S. more than $45 billion annually.

8. True or False, sad events are the chief cause of clinical depression.

9. True or False, there is nothing that family and friends can do to help a victim of clinical depression.

10. True or False, clinically depressed children, women, and men can be highly successful and productive.

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