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I believe the medical terminology is exogenous and endogenous depression, where exogenous is due to external factors and endogenous is independent of them.
by sean-duffy 11y ago
I believe the medical terminology is exogenous and endogenous depression, where exogenous is due to external factors and endogenous is independent of them.
- jgord 11y ago.. awareness of the distinction seems absent from the article, and from a lot of popular articles I've read. My point is that it would help if this distinction permeated into the popular discourse on depression ... [ Awareness of the distinction might make the general public more likely to question the morality of pumping up soldiers with anti-depressant drugs before they go into battle, for example ]