In today's society, we are faced with or placed in many unpredictable and stressful situations. However, many of us manage to properly analyze the situations and maintain our sanity, experiencing only a mild form of depression. Some reasons for being depressed are normal, such as, a death of a family member, parents' divorce, or loss of job. As a result of these misfortunate situations, can determine weather or not you are emotionally depressed. Thus, depression is relevant to life span developmental psychology.
According to Dr. Kemp said in University of California, Irvine, and depression…