Suggest Treatment For Endogenous Depression

Posted on Thu, 8 Jan 2015

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Question : Thank you Dr. explain indigenous depression. Thanks

Answered by Dr. Shubham Mehta (27 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
this is an old term in psychiatric literature

Detailed Answer:
Hello

This endogenous depression is an old terminology.
Endogenous depression is primarily biological and genetic in nature and exogenous/reactive depression is in reaction to stressful life events

For individuals with endogenous depression, symptoms often appear “out of nowhere” and for no apparent reason.

Although stressful events often precipitate both types of depression, people with the endogenous form are more likely to relapse than those whose depression is more reactive in nature.

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Dr. Shubham Mehta, MD.

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