Affecting+Development

Most types of depression can go on for an extended period of time, this is partly because the illness can go undetected for a long time, and also that right amounts of medication you need to take may take awhile to figure out. Depression is not something that you can wake up one morning and it is gone. Not all the long term effects of depression are bad if a person has beaten there illness. The positive side can have a very good influence on a persons development because they have beaten there depression they are likely to have a good support network, strategies for dealing with unpleasent situations and a postive outlook on life becasue they have recovered from the illness and know they are strong enough to beat depression. The short term effects that relate to depression are mainly the people that suffer from depression and can be found in symptoms



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