In economics , a depression is a sustained, long term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies ..., a depression is characterized by its length, by abnormally large increases in unemployment , falls ... due to devaluation s. Price deflation economics deflation , financial crisis financial crises and bank failure s are also common elements of a depression that are not normally a part of a recession. File Depression stock market crash 1929.jpg thumb The stock market crash of 1929 triggered the greatest depression in modern history that ended in 1945 after Word War 2. Definition There is no agreed definition for a depression, though some have been proposed. In the United States the National Bureau ... . ref http www.infoplease.com ce6 history A0821657.html ref Another proposed definition of depression ... The Economist title Diagnosing depression date December 30, 2008 ref ref http businesscycles.info recession definition ref Terminology Today the term depression is most often associated with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but the term had been in use long before then. Indeed, an early major American economic crisis, the Panic of 1819 , was described by then president James Monroe as a depression , ref name hnn http hnn.us articles 61931.html When Did the Great Depression Receive Its Name? And Who ... preceding the 1930s depression, the Depression of 1920 21 , was referred to as a depression by president ... of use. At the time of the Great Depression of the 1930s , the phrase The Great Depression had already ... States , which has since been renamed the Long Depression . Common use of the phrase The Great Depression for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins , whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, ref name hnn though ... referring to the downturn as a depression , with such uses as Economic depression cannot be cured ... not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression , 1931 . Occurrence Due ... more details
Depression or depress ed may refer to Medicine Depression mood , a state of low mood and aversion to activity Mood disorder , a class of mental illnesses featuring depressed mood Major depressive disorder , one of the mood disorders, commonly referred to as simply depressionDepression differential diagnoses , illnesses, other than mental illnesses, featuring depressed mood Depression physiology , a reduction in a biological variable or the function of an organ Depression kinesiology , an anatomical term of motion Other Depression geology , a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressioneconomics , a sustained, long term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies. Great Depression , a severe economic depression during the 1930s Long Depression , an economic depression during 1873 96, known at that time as the Great Depression disambig Other languages af Depressie bs Depresija vor ca Depressi cs Deprese da Depression flertydig de Depression Begriffskl rung es Depresi n desambiguaci n eo Depresio fr D pression hr Depresija it Depressione nl Depressie nds nl Depressie no Depresjon andre betydninger pl Depresja pt Depress o ru simple Depression sk Depresia sr sv Depression olika betydelser tr Depresyon anlam ayr m uk ... more details
No Depression may refer to No Depression magazine No Depression magazine , a bi monthly roots and Americana music magazine published 1995 2008 and now a music website. No Depression in Heaven , a 1936 song popularized by the Carter Family No Depression album No Depression album , a 1990 album by the alternative country band Uncle Tupelo No Depression , a term used synonymously for alternative country music. disambig ... more details
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Economics focus The Great Depression The Economist ref Even after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 , optimism ...About the severe worldwide economic downturn in the 1930s other uses The Great Depression disambiguation ... 1.4 USA annual real GDP from 1910 60, with the years of the Great Depression 1929 1939 highlighted ... of the Great Depression 1929 1939 highlighted. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide Depressioneconomics economic depression in the decade preceding World War II . The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. ref John A. Garraty, The Great Depression 1986 ref It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world s economy can decline. ref Charles Duhigg, Depression, You Say? Check Those Safety Nets , New York Times , March 23, 2008 ref The depression ... country in the world. The Great Depression had devastating effects in virtually every country, rich ... accessdate location Boston ref Cities in the Great Depression Cities all around the world were hit ... and logging suffered the most. ref Mitchell, Depression Decade ref Some economies started to recover by the mid 1930s. However, in many countries the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the start of World War II. ref Garraty, Great Depression 1986 ch1 ref Start of the Great Depression See also Timeline of the Great Depression File 1929 wall street crash graph.svg right thumb ... attribute the start of the Great Depression to the sudden devastating collapse of US stock market ... topic 243118 Great Depression Great Depression , Encyclop dia Britannica ref However, some dispute this conclusion, and see the stock crash as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the Great Depression ... Hopes The Great Depression accessdate 2008 03 13 last Schultz first Stanley K. year 1999 work American ... more details
Malignant Sadness The Anatomy of Depression work The New York Times url http www.nytimes.com books first w wolpert sadness.html accessdate 2008 10 30 ref The term also came in to use in depression physiology physiology and depressioneconomicseconomics . An early usage referring to a psychiatric ...What was previously known as melancholia and is now known as clinical depression , major depression , or simply depression and commonly referred to as major depressive disorder by many health care professionals ... of favor but was revived in Rome by Galen . Melancholia was a far broader concept than today s depression ... Radden first J year 2003 month March title Is this dame melancholy? Equating today s depression and past ... Avicenna described melancholia as a Depression mood depressive type of mood disorder in which ... last Daly first RW year 2007 title Before depression The medieval vice of acedia journal Psychiatry ... to a temperament. ref name Radden2003 The term depression was derived from the Latin verb deprimere ... Baker chronicler Richard Baker s Chronicle to refer to someone having a great depression of spirit , and by English ... name pmid3074848 cite journal author Berrios GE title Melancholia and depression during the 19th ... term, depression gained increasing currency in medical treatises and was a synonym by the end ... coined the terms endogenous depression and reactive depression in 1920, ref name Schneider cite journal ... Image Sigmund freud um 1905.jpg upright thumb left Sigmund Freud argued that depression, or melancholia ... reactions in the context of an individual s life, and argued that the term depression should be used ... ref Austrian existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl connected depression to feelings of futility ... is 4 26 ai n29132028 pg 1?tag artBody col1 title Helping older adolescents search for meaning in depression ... 333 347 ref American existential psychologist Rollo May hypothesized that depression is the inability ... 11 08 ref See epigraph. In general, May wrote, depression ... occur s more in the dimension of time ... more details
wiktionary depression Unreferenced date October 2008 Depression in physiology and medicine refers to a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ. It is in contrast to elevation. For example, it is possible to refer to depressed thyroid function or to a depression of blood flow in a particular area. Further examples Depression of the central nervous system of an animal may be expressed as drowsiness or sleep, lack of coordination and unconsciousness . Category Medical terms ... more details
Category 1873 in economics de Gro e Depression 1873 1896 fr Grande d pression 1873 1896 it Grande ...distinguish long term depression The Long Depression was a worldwide economic crisis, felt most heavily ... was labeled the Great Depression , and held that title until the Great Depression of the 1930s. Though ... the severe economic retrogression and spectacular breakdown of the latter Great Depression. ref Cite journal title Political and Social Consequences of the Great Depression of 1873 1896 in Central Europe ... historians have questioned whether there was really a U.S. depression in anything other than profits ... Cite journal title The Great Depression in Britain, 1873 1896 A Reappraisal last Musson first A.E. ... that the economy of the United Kingdom had been in continuous depression from 1873 to as late as 1896 and some texts refer to the period as the Great Depression of 1873 96 . ref name Glasner2 ... Depression of 1873 1896 ref In the United States, economists typically refer to the Long Depression as the Depression of 1873 79 , kicked off by the Panic of 1873 , and followed by the Depression of 1893 , book ending the entire period of the wider Long Depression http butnowyouknow.wordpress.com ... Depression s 43 months of contraction. ref name NBER Cite web url http www.nber.org cycles cyclesmain.html ... accessdate January 4, 2009 ref ref Cite journal doi 10.2307 1927196 title The Long Wave Depression, 1873 97 author Fels, Rendigs year 1949 journal The Review of Economics and Statistics pages 69 73 .... ref Rothbard 2002 , 164 ref Background The period preceding the depression was dominated by several ... for the moment, as was Britain. ref name cycles 4 Others have argued the depression was rooted ... depression in the United States was the tight monetary policy that the U.S. followed to get back ... s believe that the 1873 depression was caused by shortages of gold that undermined the gold standard ... the depression. Course of the depression Like the later Great Depression , the Long Depression ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2007 The Huancabamba Depression is an east west depression through the Andes Mountains of northern Peru . The Huancabamba Depression interrupts the Central and Eastern Cordilleras of the Andes, and the Mara n River and its tributaries drain eastward through the depression into the Amazon basin . Western Cordillera has its lowest point, 2145 meters, at the Paso de Porculla . The Huancabamba Depression is home to the Mara n dry forests , which form both a biogeography biogeographic connection between the lowland forests of the Pacific coast and the Amazon basin, and a biogeographic barrier between the Northern Andes and the Central Andes ref http www.thefreelibrary.com Observations on the biogeography of the Amotape Huancabamba Zone in... a087855378 Observations on the biogeography of the Amotape Huancabamba Zone in northern Peru, Maximilian Weigend, The Botanical Review, 1 Jan 2002 ref . References references Coord missing Peru Category Valleys of Peru Peru geo stub ... more details
Rational depression is reason guided psychological depression . It can arise from adverse life circumstances. Such depression may not be responsive to traditional depression therapies. ref citation title Calling It Quits When Patients or Proxies Request to Withdraw or Withhold Life Sustaining Treatment After Spinal Cord Injury author KL Kirschner publisher Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation year 2007 url http thomasland.metapress.com index M4XW957794653825.pdf issn 1082 0744 doi 10.1310 sci1303 30 ref Traditionally, cognitive therapist s have asserted that there is no such thing as a rational depression since, while sadness can be a natural response to loss or disappointment, depression results from distorted thoughts. ref cite book title When bad things happen to rational people Cognitive therapy in adverse life circumstances author S Moorey publisher Frontiers of cognitive therapy year 1996 ref Christian leaders such as John Cassian , Isidore of Seville , Bede recognized the distinction between irrational depression which emerged frequently without any antecedent stressor and was therefore seemingly from God and rational depression. ref citation title Blue is the new black author Gordon Parker publisher World Journal of Biological Psychiatry year 2009 volume 10 issue 3 pages 177 179 doi 10.1080 15622970903083194 ref Research indicates that although disability is associated with particular socially mediated stressors, there is no theoretical or empirical evidence to indicate that depression and its role in the right to die is dynamically different, more natural, or more reasonable for disabled people than for non disabled people. ref citation title Depression in the Context of Disability and the Right to Die issn 1386 7415 volume 25 number 3 date May, 2004 doi 10.1023 B META.0000040058.24814.54 url http www.springerlink.com content q82301lp607104h6 publisher Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics ref Rational depression sometimes leads to rational suicide . ref ... more details
other uses No Depression disambiguation No Depression in Heaven or simply No Depression is a song that was first recorded by the original Carter Family in 1936 during the Great Depression . Although A.P. Carter has frequently been credited as the author, some sources attribute the song to James David Vaughan . ref name Raisin Bill C. Malone Don t Get Above Your Raisin Country Music and the Southern Working Class University of Illinois Press , 2002 ISBN 0 252 02678 0 ref Over the years the song has been recorded by artists as diverse as the New Lost City Ramblers and Sheryl Crow . Uncle Tupelo made the song the title cut of their 1990 in music 1990 album, No Depression album No Depression . Since then, the title has become synonymous with alternative country alternative country music . What is now described as the No Depression movement ref name ndm http www.shsu.edu lis fwh book punk newwave postpunk No 20Depression2.htm No Depression Movement from the http www.shsu.edu lis fwh book index.htm top Survey of American Popular Music by Frank Hoffmann and modified for the web by Robert Birkline ref is covered by many fan publications including the magazine No Depression periodical No Depression . Notes and sources Reflist Category 1936 songs Category American folk songs Category Carter Family songs Category Songs written by A. P. Carter Category Alternative country songs Category Sheryl Crow songs Category English language songs Folk song stub ... more details
Refimprove date November 2008 Melancholic depression , or depression with melancholic features is a subtype of Clinical depression Major depressive episode major depression characterized by major depressive disorder with the following specific features anhedonia the inability to find pleasure in positive things , severe weight loss, psychomotor agitation or retardation, insomnia with early morning awakenings, and guilt. Another feature is diurnal variation, typically with worse symptoms in the morning and improvement at night. Melancholic depression is a particularly severe form of depression. Treatment involves antidepressants, electroconvulsive therapy , and supportive psychotherapy, as deeper psychotherapy can not be tolerated. The incidence of melancholic depression has been found to increase when the temperature and or sunlight are low. ref name radua2010 Cite journal last1 Radua first1 Joaquim last2 Pertusa first2 Alberto last3 Cardoner first3 Narcis title Climatic relationships with specific clinical subtypes of depression journal Psychiatry Research volume 175 issue 3 pages 217 220 date 28 February 2010 doi 10.1016 j.psychres.2008.10.025 pmid 20045197 ref Roughly 10 of people with depression suffer from melancholic depression. Citation needed date October 2009 According to DSM IV the Melancholic features specifier may be applied to the following only Major Depressive Episode , Single Episode Major Depressive Episode , Recurrent Episode Bipolar I Disorder , Most Recent Episode Depressed Bipolar II Disorder , Most Recent Episode Depressed See also Melancholia References reflist Mental and behavioral disorders selected mood Category Mood disorders fr M lancolie io Melankolio fi Melankolinen masennus ... more details
Endogenous Depression is an atypical sub class of the Mood Disorder , Clinical Depression A.K.A. Major Depressive Disorder . Endogenous Depression includes patients with treatment refractory, unipolar, non psychotic, Major Depressive Disorder, characterized by a dysregulation of the Endogenous Opioid System and NOT of the Monaminergic System. Patients who fall in this sub class typically respond very well to synthetic opioids which act on the opioid receptors and thought to result in increased serotonin production and norepinephrine reuptake inhibition, including Tramadol, Tapentadol, Buprenorphine, and other similar, synthetic, atypical, opioid analgesics. However, due to the addictive qualities and taboo nature opioids have in the eyes of the general public, doctors have been reluctant to delve into research on or treatments for Endogenous Depression, and therefore, patients who suffer the condition usually go untreated. ref cite journal coauthors Nyhuis P W, Specka M, Gastpar M title Does the antidepressive response to opiate treatment describe a subtype of depression? journal European Neuropsychopharmacology year 2006 volume 16 series 4 accessdate 10 March 2011 ref ref cite journal last Bodkin first JA coauthors Zornberg, GL, Lukas, SE, Cole, JO title Harvard Medical School Clinical Study Buprenorphine treatment of refractory depression. journal Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology ... 7714228 accessdate 10 March 2011 ref It is also thought that Endogenous Depression is a mood disorder ... confronted by symptoms of depression for the first time. Depressive episodes can occur at any age, but despite the predisposition may never become a serious problem. The severity of depression resulting ... and when no particular source of the mood disorder is found, the depression is considered to be endogenous. External links http www.netdoctor.co.uk diseases depression classification 000001.htm Endogenous depression on NetDoctor references DEFAULTSORT Endogenous Depression Category Major Depressive ... more details
orphan date November 2008 Wikify date February 2011 A cone of depression occurs in an aquifer when groundwater ... depression of the water levels. In confined artesian aquifers, the cone of depression is a reduction ... becomes less with distance from the well, resulting in a conical shaped depression radiating away ... a bathtub. This conical shaped feature is the cone of depression. The size and shape slope of the cone of depression depends on many factors. The pumping rate in the well will affect the size of the cone ... in storage and the thickness of the aquifer also will determine the size and shape of the cone of depression. As a well is pumped, the cone of depression will extend out and will continue to expand ... the amount of water being pumped. We typically think of a cone of depression as being a circular ... of depression. For example, if there is a steep ground water gradient in the area of pumpage, the cone ... the cone of depression doesn t need to extend as far out to obtain water, whereas the water is flowing away from the well in the downgradient direction, so the cone of depression needs to reach further to obtain water. The shape of the cone of depression also can be affected when the cone intersects ... water to the cone of depression and therefore the cone will not expand as far in this direction. Conversely, if the cone of depression contacts a barrier, such as massive bedrock ridge, a clay body, or the edge of the aquifer, the cone of depression will decline to greater depths in order to supply water to the well. When two cones of depression intersect one another, they tend to have a combined affect on drawdown and result in water levels or pressures much lower than a single cone of depression ... far enough apart in order to avoid intersecting cones of depression. This way, drawdown in the aquifer ... the cones of depression. In huge municipal wells, these cones of depression often can extend many miles from the pumped well. For many domestic wells, the cones of depression often are too small ... more details
Infobox Disease Name Atypical Depression Image Caption DiseasesDB ICD10 ICD10 F 32 8 f 30 ICD9 ICDO OMIM MedlinePlus eMedicineSubj eMedicineTopic MeshID Atypical depression AD is a subtype of dysthymia and Major depressive disorder major depression , sharing many of the symptoms of both, but also being .... In contrast, sufferers of Melancholic depression melancholic depression generally cannot experience positive moods, even when good things happen. Additionally, atypical depression is characterized ... rejection sensitivity. Despite its name, atypical depression is actually the most common subtype of depression ref http www.biopsychiatry.com atypical.htm Course and treatment of atypical depression ref ref http www.mcmanweb.com article 200.htm Atypical Depression ref up to 40 of the depressed population may be classified as having atypical depression. Symptoms The DSM IV TR defines Atypical Depression as a subtype of Major Depressive Disorder with Atypical Features, characterized by a Mood ... to the insomnia present in melancholic depression Leaden paralysis i.e., heavy, leaden feelings ... or occupational impairment. c Criteria are not met for Melancholic Depression or Catatonia Catatonic Depression during the same episode. Research In general, atypical depression tends to cause greater functional impairment than other forms of depression. Atypical depression is a chronic syndrome that tends to begin earlier in life than other forms of depression usually beginning in teenage years. Similarly, patients with atypical depression are more likely to suffer from other psychiatric syndromes ... chronic atypical depression and acute melancholic depression . While some studies ref http www.mayoclinic.com health atypical depression AN01363 Atypical depression How is it different from regular depression? ref suggest that an older class of drugs, MAOI s, may be more effective at treating atypical depression, the modern SSRI s are usually quite effective, while the tricyclic antidepressant ... more details
Image Goud e Zereh.JPG thumb 250px Satellite image of the Godzareh depression in southwestern Afghanistan The Godzareh depression also Gowd e Zereh is the lowest part of an inland Structural basin drainage basin covering large parts of southern Afghanistan and Iran known as the Sistan Basin . The Sistan Basin is an endorheic basin and encompasses a complex system of rivers, shallow lakes, marshes and wetlands as its drainage basin watershed , draining into the Hamun Lake s in southeastern Iran. Occasional outflows from these lakes are carried back into Afghanistan by the seasonal Shile river to the basin s terminus, the Godzareh depression in Afghanistan. The Depression geology depression is flat and very shallow with fine textured sediment at its bottom. The lowest section of the Godzareh depression is 467 m above sea level. The depression only receives Surface runoff runoff water when the main tributaries are overflowing every 10 years on the average. ref cite web url http www.cais soas com CAIS Geography hamun geography.htm title The Geography of Hamun publisher accessdate 2007 07 20 ref ref cite web url http www.iranica.com newsite articles v7f1 v7f175.html title DA T eNA WOR publisher Encyclopaedia Iranica accessdate 2007 07 20 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref ref cite web url http www.wldelft.nl cons area rbm sistan scherm.pdf title IWRM for the Sistan Closed Inland Delta, Iran publisher WL Delft Hydraulics accessdate 2009 02 18 ref In general, a geological Depression geology depression is a landform that is sunken or lower than the surrounding area. The Godzareh depression is the lowest point in the Sistan Basin in Afghanistan and therefore is the terminus to which all the water flows. ref cite web url http www.iwlearn.net iw projects Fsp 112799470223 title Restoration, Protection and Sustainable Use of the Sistan Basin publisher accessdate 2007 07 20 ref See also Endorheic basin Depression geology Afar Depression Notes references External links http ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Positive Depression Type EP Artist Leaether Strip Cover Leaetherstripdepression.jpg Released 1994 Recorded Genre Industrial, EBM Length Label Zoth Ommog Producer Reviews Last album Material EP Material 1991 This album Positive Depression 1994 Next album Anal Cabaret A Tribute to Soft Cell Positive Depression is an EP by Leaether Strip that was released on a Mini CD . It features three original tracks and a remix. Tracklisting Torture A Suicide Note We Deserve It all Dead on Arrival Don t Tame Your Soul Spoken Version Le ther Strip Category Le ther Strip EPs Category 1994 EPs ... more details
File Relieve andalucia.png thumb right 300px This Spanish language map shows major topographic features of Andalusia . The Baetic Depression is labeled with its Spanish name, Depresi n B tica . The Baetic Depression is a triangular valley of the Guadalquivir in Andalusia , Spain . It is oriented roughly northeast to southwest with its vertex in the east northeast and its outlet in the Gulf of C diz . It is a typical lateral depression of the type that forms amidst Alpine mountain ranges, similar to the valley of the Ebro in the Pyrenees or the valley of the Po river in the Alps . iw ref es Depresi n B tica 2009 12 21 oldid 30314299 coord missing Spain Category Geography of Andalusia es Depresi n B tica Spain geo stub ... more details
Greater Depression may refer to Late 2000s recession , the current global economic collapse Dark Conspiracy , role playing game Wide Awake novel , speculative fiction novel by David Levithan disambig ... more details
No footnotes date February 2008 Image Caspian Depression NASA edited .jpg thumb 250px right Caspian Depression and north Caspian Sea from space Caspian Depression lang ru , Caspian Lowland is a lowland low lying flatlands flatland region encompassing the northern part of the Caspian ... Programme accessdate 2011 02 24 ref It is part of the wider Aral Caspian Depression around the Aral Sea Aral and Caspian seas. Other translations include Pricaspian Peri Caspian Depression Lowland . The lowest point of the depression is 28m or 92 feet below sea level. The Depression geology depression ... Republic of Kalmykia lies in the Caspian Depression. The Volga River and the Ural River flow .... The North Caspian depression is part of the Continental climate continental or semi arid desert ... than 10 of the region is irrigated. Karagiye , the lowest point in Kazakhstan, is in the depression, at 132 metres 433 ft below sea level. Much of the Caspian Depression is below sea level, consisting ... rich in underground oil and gas reserves, and oil and natural gas pipelines cross the depression from north to south and east to west. Many geologists believe the Caspian Sea and the depression were formed by tectonic forces. Some of them also believe that the North Caspian depression became separated ... ran through this region. The two largest cities in the depression are Astrakhan in Russia, and Atyrau in Kazakhstan. Today, the region is used mainly for livestock raising. The depression is also noted ... domes about 1,200 , in the Caspian Depression in western Kazakhstan. One dome, called the Chelkar ... miles deep. The southern region of the depression, or the north coast of the Caspian Sea, is characterized by large development of damp sites resulting from tidal phenomena. The depression is also home ... River, poses a serious threat to the biodiversity of the Caspian Depression. Water pollution is contributed ... Evaporites of North Border of North Caspian Depression Internet Geology News Letter No. 178 , January ... more details
A depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions may be formed by various mechanisms. Structural or tectonic related Structural basin A circular, syncline like depression a region of tectonic downwarping e.g., associated with a subduction zone and island arc Graben or rift valley down dropped and typically linear depressions or basin created by rifting in a region under tensional tectonic forces. Pull apart basin caused by offset in a Strike slip fault strike slip or transform fault example the Dead Sea area . Oceanic trench a deep linear depression located in the ocean floor. Oceanic trenches are caused by the subduction when one tectonic plate is pushed underneath another of oceanic crust beneath either other oceanic crust or continental crust . Sedimentary related Sedimentary basin In sedimentology , an area thickly filled with sediment ... to the ice sheet may be pulled down to create a peripheral depression. ref name MSUperipheraldepression ... Glossary of Important Terms in Glacial Geology Peripheral Depression accessdate 2006 08 25 year 1999 ... geotech.org ref Volcanism related Caldera a volcanic depression resulting from collapse following a volcanic ... depression smaller than a caldera formed by a sinking, or caving in, of the ground surface lying over a void. Maar a depression resulting from phreatomagmatic eruption or diatreme explosion. Erosion related Glacial valley a depression carved by erosion by a glacier . River valley a depression ... such as sinkhole s in karst terrain. Blowout geology Blowout a depression created by Aeolian ... environment . ref name GTb Sink geography Sink an endorheic depression generally containing a persistent ... . Impact related Impact crater a depression created by an impact such as a meteorite crater. References ... da Depression geologi de Senke Geomorphologie et N gu es Depresi n geograf a eu Beheragune geografia ... fi Syv nk sv Depression geografi tt tr Depresyon jeoloji uk ... more details
Image Pd17459.jpg 150px right The Palace of Depression was a building made of junk that was located in Vineland, New Jersey . Built by the eccentric and mustachioed George Daynor, a former Alaska gold miner who lost his fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 . This amusement was known as The Strangest House in the World and the Home of Junk. and was built as a testament of willpower against the effects of The Great Depression . ref name Roadside http www.roadsideamerica.com exhibit NJVINpalace.html Palace of Depression , Roadside America. Accessed October 2, 2007. ref History Beginnings George Daynor claims that he was guided to New Jersey by an angel, who provided the design for the palace. Completed on Christmas Day 1932, the palace was built on convert 7 acre m2 which cost him seven dollars. Daynor quotes that his palace was the greatest piece of originality ever brought about in the history of Man. . He would charge 25 cents for a tour. ref name Roadside Daynor was a publicity hog and claimed to be the most photographed man in the world. After a baby was kidnapped in the 1950s, Daynor called the FBI and falsely reported that the kidnappers had visited the palace. The FBI followed ... the Palace of Depression and Vineland razed it in 1969 . Restoration A city restoration project to rebuild the Palace of Depression is in progress. Local companies and individuals are encouraged ... The 1983 film Eddie and the Cruisers , references the Palace of Depression. References Reflist ... and Video Documenting Palace of Depression then and Now http www.roadsideamerica.com exhibit NJVINpalace.html ... Palace on the imdb http coilhouse.net 2008 02 21 george daynor and the palace of depression more 629 Coilhouse . http depressionquotes.org Depression quotes . http www.ourhero.biz tovolunteerforthepalace.htm Palace of Depression Restoration Project Association Incorporated coord 39.4843 ... Jersey Category Great Depression in the United States ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 The Aoukar Depression is a geological depression area of south eastern Mauritania , bordering the Tagant Plateau . It was a large lake until about 1000 BC , at which time many people lived around its shores. It is now dry, covered in sand dune s and Dry lake salt pan s, and is known for the addax which lives in the region. Coord missing Mauritania Category Landforms of Mauritania Category Depressions geology Mauritania geo stub ... more details
The Mari Depression is a depression at the left side of the Volga , from the western borders of the Mari El to the Bolshaya Kokshaga River . Elevation is from 50 to 100 meters, now is partly flooded with Cheboksary Reservoir . The dunes covered with forests are situated between the rivers. References ru icon http www.rubricon.com ann bse 14 m 14 m62261.asp coord missing Russia Category Mari El Category Landforms of Europe Category Depressions of Russia MariEl geo stub nn Marisenkinga ... more details
refimprove date August 2009 expert subject Psychology date May 2009 Orphan date May 2009 Child depression is a mental illness in which a child feels worthless and is generally sad for a long time each day. About five percent of children and adolescents suffer from depression at any given time. ref http aacap.org page.ww?name The Depressed Child§ion Facts for Families ref Child depression can occur in both small children and teens. The signs are generally the same as adult depression mood depression . If a child has feelings of wikt worthlessness worthlessness , guilt , gets sick without reason, thinks of death , or becomes distant, he or she might be depressed. It is often caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Episodes of child depression can last from six to nine months on average, but in some children, the episodes can last for years. ref http www.nami.org Template.cfm?Section by illness&template ContentManagement ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID 17623 ref Causes and symptoms Child depression can be caused by many things, and the symptoms are sometimes hard to recognize. The symptoms and signs of child depression can include becoming uninterested about a topic the child used to enjoy, school grades dropping, bad sleep or sleeping for too long, getting bullying bullied at school, loneliness or social isolation, frequent complaints of maladies such as headaches or stomachaches, and difficulty with relationships. Treatment Treatment may include the use of antidepressant medication once the child is diagnosed and treated by a physician or qualified mental health professional. References reflist http aacap.org page.ww?name The Depressed Child§ion Facts for Families http www.nami.org Template.cfm?Section by illness&template ContentManagement ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID 17623 Category Mental health Category Pediatrics Category Child and adolescent psychiatry Category Mood disorders Category Stub Class psychiatry articles psychology stub ... more details
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