Healthy thoughts is a retired psychiatrist and writes for http://www.karenhastings.co.uk. Karen Hastings is a NHS experienced mental health occupational therapist, Master NLP practitioner and hypnotherapist practising privately in Edinburgh
In its lay use, the term “depression” is used to convey a whole range of emotional and psychological states – unhappiness, low mood, misery, apathy etc Indeed, many use the term interchangeably with any and all of these words