About Depression

Depression is a common but serious mood disorder. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities such as sleeping, eating, or working.

For the first time in 50 years, depression treatments are available that do not require taking daily medications that can cause side effects like sleepiness, weight gain, sexual side effects, upset stomach, and mental fogginess. Depression is a treatable condition. While there is currently no cure for depression, recent medical advances have produced new options that can have faster results, such as intravenous (IV) ketamine. Symptoms of clinical depression include:

• At least 2 weeks of depressed mood, including feeling sad, empty, and hopeless, or loss of interest and pleasure.
• Significant changes in appetite and weight or sleep patterns.
• Fatigue or loss of energy and impaired thinking or concentration.
• Thoughts of suicide or wanting to die.