Ever since psychiatry has come to become a well-known discipline of medicine, depression has been pushing researchers to probe deeper and deeper into this problem. One thing that most research about depression or severe anxiety points out towards is the fact that these symptoms are really hard to pin down. Feeling low and demotivated about life, feeling gloomy all the time, drop in interest and attention levels, lack of pleasure in most activities, reduced sex drive etc. are all experienced by many individuals who may not necessarily suffer from depression. For this reason, with all the research about depression, there is still no certain way to diagnose the disorder unless the patient speaks up. One area where research about depression has succeeded in is differentiating between the types of depression along with antidepressant side effects as well. The following are the major types of depression according to depression research: Bipolar Disorder In this type of depression, an individual goes through both, symptoms of depression as well as mania. This means that the patient will go through depressive episodes characterized by loss of hope and all the other symptoms of depression along with manic episodes characterized by ecstatic moods with high sex drive and an unrealistically positive outlook towards life. There is no set pattern as to how these episodes alternate making bipolar disorders hard to pin down. Dysthymia and Major Depression On the other hand, depression research also points out towards unipolar depression cases wherein the patient has no manic ...

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