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rmful as previously believed. In fact, Blazer added, this group of women probably reflects an average range of emotion. "Maybe this spectrum of moods is more the norm," he said.

Blazer said it's unrealistic to expect individuals to always feel happy, "like you should be popping out of bed with a big smile on your face." Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, a research psychologist at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., and a member of the American Psychology Association, told UPI although she is unfamiliar with the study, she is familiar with Blazer's provocative research that encourages people to reevaluate how they perceive depression and depression's effects.

The problem with depression in the elderly is that sometimes people become depressed by the regressive health problems that accompany old age and sometimes depression itself can contribute to these ailments. Gallagher-Thompson said that depression has been called the common cold of geriatric mental health.


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