The multiple clinic of depressions

Abstract

The accute increase of depression is a worldwide and complex phenomenon. Its understanding requires the mobilization of several areas of knowledge (Corbanezi, 2021). The objective of this article is less to present extensively the different denominations, aspects, definitions, and understandings concerning depression as a clinical entity, and more to register that they exist, with the intention of revealing, or briefly reiterating, the vast complexity of this area from the point of view of some theoretical bodies, in contrast with the, in our view, simplified and condensed description found in the current diagnostic manuals, especially in the current Disorder and Statistic Manual-DSM. We point to the current number of cases diagnosed as depression, considered of the epidemic order in which, however, a whole range of distinct affections are indistinctly condensed, in the current prevalent diagnostic version. Distinct ranges of sadness, mourning processes, and other affective and physical states clinically similar to those credited as depression, have been steadily increasing numbers that, according to the WHO, are expected to reach the first cause of work impairement by 2030. A projection, or a state of affairs that is still poorly understood and, therefore, as an epidemic, ungoverned?