Document Type : Research Paper

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Department of Pharmacy, University of Isfahan, Iran

Received: 02 October 2018                    Accepted: 10 November 2018                          Published: 01 December 2018

 10.22034/MBT.2018.80819                                                                 XML Files


Abstract

Depression is a disorder in which a person is unfit physically and mentally. WHO stated it is the fourth major cause of passing disable life. It reduces individual’s productive life and leads to premature mortality. From last 20 years an extensive research has been done to find relationship between life stress and depression. Stress is not the sole causative factor, but genetic as well as biological changes in the depressed individual play important role in the onset of depression. Other predisposing factors for depression include childhood stress such as ignorance by family, early loss of parents, physical or sexual abuse, no social support, financial loss etc. Stressful life events can lead to depression has been explored by many researchers and concluded that stressful life-events can arouse or trigger depression episodes in susceptible individuals.

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