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I was born in 1987 in Bucharest. I studied Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Bucharest. For two years I worked in a psychotherapy practice, dealing with gambling addicts. I'm an independent reporter, writing and doing video reportages mostly about social and political issues. I am currently based in Jena.
What Causes Depression? What We Know, Don’t Know And Suspect
This is an explanatory article that is meant to shed some light on the mental illness that seems to be on everybody’s lips nowadays: depression.
The author describes different types of depression, what causes them, the main symptoms, what happens from a medical standpoint in a depressed person’s brain, what drugs work in treating them. To better understand depression, he gives more detailed accounts about two sorts of depression: the biological disease-like one and the psychological and social depression. One distinction between the two is that the first is caused by internal factors, and the second by external stressors.
What the author wants to point out with this analytical piece is that the people involved in treating depressed persons should choose — in his words — a “horses for courses” model rather than a “one size fits all” approach, for the benefit of the patients.
