I have been diagnosed with clinical depression. I have found at times that it is hard to concentrate (more often than not). I also have a hard time remembering things. I know that these are typical symptoms of depression but am wondering if depression itself can be considered a learning disability due to it's symptoms and side effects.
I have done a little of research on the subject and see many references to people with learning disabilities developing depression because of having learning disabilities. Does anyone know of a good article, or maybe a website with more information about depression causing learning disabilities? I would be very interested to hear more information on the subject. Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks, and have a great day!

My mother used to have depression, on and off. I also have many friends with disabilities. Actually, conditions such as down syndrome, don't make you completely disfunctional. A friend of mine and I play with a girl with down syndrome almost every day. Our school has a special class with disabled kids. Autistic kids aren't always crazy, as some people describe them as. We have a few autistic children in my school. One is fully functional and gets 100's and is in a normal 6th grade class. Most autistic children are actually very smart.

This post has been edited by ~Nick[;: May 30 2008, 01:37 AM

Does depression affect your learning ability, much like it affects pretty much everything else? Yes. Is it a disability? No - but you might always end up behind which can be "seen" as a disability but isn't really. For a rough example - you can't do algebra until you learn to add,multiply,divide, brackets, etc.

Because you might of not picked up on divide too well, hence you have trouble with algebra. This isn't a disability, just that you couldn't pick up one of the required topics as fast as everyone else, thanks to depression.

(I'm not saying your slow or anything, I'm just using that as an example).

But an almost side affect of a lot of diabilities is increased intelligence. I have dispraxia and I am quite clever, most people with autism I really clever.