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Stress can be caused by a traumatic event and can have devastating effects on the person it affects. It can cause depression this can be endogenous or exdogenous depression the first being a depression when the person does not realize why? the second being a depression as a result of..

According to The World Health Organisation(WHO). the number of peopl who are likely to suffer mild to moderate depression at some time in their lives has now risen to somewhere around the 5 million mark - although I suspect there are more - check this out on the internet.

With stress becoming an officially recognised disease - it is becoming increasingly important that we all take steps to combat the many stressful situations we daily encounter, before they begin to start harming our health. For one thing, few of us are adept at recognising many of its subtler symptoms, since these can often be so vague - i.e. mood swings, sleep disruption,headaches, ----loss of sexual interest, enthusiasm, appetite and drive, chronic lethargy - that it simply would not occur to us to relate them back to their true cause Most of us come to accept it is 'almost natural' to suffer the occasion bout of 'blues' and dismiss it.

This is huge subject and in the UK people are now encouraged to say if they feel depressed - as it was always stigmatised - so many people suffer depression from all walks of life. There is also a huge amount of literature of how to cope with this. I said too much maybe here but there is so very much more.

stress [ stress ]
strain felt by somebody: mental, emotional, or physical strain caused, e.g. by anxiety or overwork. It may cause such symptoms as raised blood pressure or depression.
cause of strain: something that causes stress
special importance: special emphasis, importance, or significance attached to something