21.   Depression is the most prevalent of all psychiatric disorders described as the common cold of psychiatry.

22.   In reality, depression can sometimes be serious and deadly.

23.   Parkes and Weiss described the contexts in which clinical depression was particularly likely to follow bereavement.

24.   Depression is an overwhelming feeling which dulls thinking, mood and concentration, disrupts sleep, saps energy and interest in food, sex, work and everyday activities.

25.   Alone, even severe depression is unlikely to lead to violence, the experts added.

26.   Although antidepressants have not been shown to cure the disorder, they have proved to be helpful in related syndromes in which depression is a component.

27.   Among its common symptoms are chronic depression, low self-esteem, violent mood swings, emotional dependency, fear of abandonment, eating disorders, and self-mutilation.

28.   Among mental illnesses, depression is one of the least associated with violence towards others, though sufferers are at increased risk of harming themselves, psychiatrists said.

29.   Among the evidence supporting a biological trigger are recent studies showing that postpartum depression is as common in rural Africa as it is in the industrialized West.

30.   And while depression is one cause, so are infections, head trauma, other injuries or emotional trauma.