Talk:Depression

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Is "depression" in the economic sense directly equivalent to "recession"? A couple of articles distinguish between the two (e.g. Underemployment). If there is a difference between the concepts then perhaps we need an article at depression (economic) as well as recession.

On a similar subject, I'm thinking we may need an article at depression (emotion) or depression (symptom) to distinguish between the illness clinical depression (which has a lot more symptoms than low mood) and "feeling a bit depressed". -- sannse 08:56, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

[edit] blank lines

You can't get a reply? I don't see a message from you to me anywhere. I can't find a MoS reference to lists, but Help:List doesn't give blank lines inbetween list items as an option. What is the purpose? Tedernst | talk 22:34, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I sent an email to you. What is the accepted practice or what is most often done leave a message on article talk page, the person's talk page or email directly to them? The purpose of blank lines are only to make it a little neater and easier to read. The Help:List mentions blank lines in item two of the contents. I don't understand why you didn't leave a reason for making the change? Thanks, --Jim 22:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Editors preferences vary, though I'd say most will answer something about an article if the question is posed on the talk page of that article. Some also appreciate a pointer from their own user talk page. For me that's not necessary. I'm not aware of any editors preferring email. I don't receive that mail for quite some time, and am unlikely to read it. One reason to keep communication here at Wikipedia is because it's not just you or I that care about this article. Anyone else working here could be interested in our back and forth about how things should go. Bottom line, I don't care that much about the blank lines. I feel the page looks much better without them. I'm not aware of any style guideline that makes it okay to have them in there. I won't take them out again. Tedernst | talk 23:14, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Email is seldom used. Use talk pages. I think the purpose of the blank lines is that they make the page easier to edit (in the edit window). However, the extra spaces make the page harder to intake for readers, since the entries are spaced out and the eye has to scan more area. I say leave out the spaces. Also, in long dab pages the spaces get rediculous, doubling the length of the page.--Commander Keane 23:23, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I took them out, sorry for confusion. Thanks for the info and advice. --Jim 01:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to Depression (mood) and Clinical depression

I see from the history that these changes are likely to be controversial, but this really isn't the page for more than a short sentence of explanation. For example, the extent that brain chemistry changes are involved in clinical depression is not a simple subject, nor is the causality or otherwise of those changes. All that is far too complex a subject to go into here, this should just give a very basic description of the meaning of the term. Its not meant to inform as to the details of the condition - that's what the actual article is for. It's just to help readers find which of the links they want to click to read more. -- sannse (talk) 20:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm working to solve this with more clear cross-referencing between the two articles and resolving ambiguous linking where possible, mostly according to whether described as an illness or treated as such. There are also uses of the word that have been linked which don't come under any of the categories, so I've added depression (physiology), although if you look at the link from the Thesaurus page, it looks like we need depression (geometry) as well, or a wiktionary link. --Cedders^tk 09:22, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree. There is a definite difference between that of not feeling well emotionally, and the form of clinical depression in which the victim, (to be termed as such) expeiriences such symptoms varying from a persistant bad mood, to utter hoplessness and despair. As such there should be clear lines seperating the two so as not to induce confusion in the reader.--OpalEye 5:01, 09 July 2006

lol  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.156.5.143 (talk) 23:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC)