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Is there a difference between an emotional breakdown and depression?

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Depends on diagnosis: "emotional breakdown" or "nervous breakdown" are lay terms. Depression can be too, but it's also a term psychiatrist use to describe a syndrome of disrupted mood, appetite, sleep and libido. So depression and emotional breakdown might be the same, depending on the symptoms.

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Answered 5/13/2016

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