• Withdrawal from others.
  
• A decrease in functioning at school, work, or other activities.
• Increasing sensitivity to environmental conditions or intense situations.
  
• Loss of interest in regular activities.
  
• Feelings of disconnection or unreality.
  
• Magical or childlike thinking.
  
• Paranoid or suspicious thoughts and nervousness.
  
• Developing new and unusual behaviors.
  
• Sudden and major changes in hygiene, mood, sleeping pattern, or diet.
  

Clinical depression has been linked to other mental illnesses, such as anxiety disorders, panic disorder, social phobia, and generalized anxiety disorder. Together, these conditions affect millions of Americans.
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Fortunately, these disorders are treatable, and those affected can lead normal, productive lives.

Around 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide. Treatments are available, but nearly two-thirds of people with a known mental disorder never seek help from a health professional. - Oct 4, 2019

Around 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide. Treatments are available, but nearly two-thirds of people with a known mental disorder never seek help from a health professional. - Oct 4, 2019

Depression is most common in ages 18 to 25 (10.9 percent) and in individuals belonging to two or more races (10.5 percent). Women are twice as likely as men to have had a depressive episode, according to the NIMH and the World Health Organization (WHO) .Jun 29, 2018

Research has found that attempted suicide rates and suicidal ideation among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, etc (LGBT) youth is significantly higher than among the general population. LGBT youth have the highest rate of suicide attempts.