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Some feautures features are a mood of depressed, sad, hopeless, discouraged or "down in the dumps". Decreased energy, tiredness and fatigue are common. Frequently there may be thoughts of death, suicidal ideation, or suicide attempts. These thoughts range from thoughts that other persons would be better off if the person were dead, to transient but recurrent thoughts of committing suicide, to actual specific plans to commit [[suicide]].<ref name="DSM-IV" /> == Circumcision's contribution to depression ==
Typically, non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]] is carried out on a helpless infant or small child who has no choice in the matter. Circumcision is the amputation and excision of functional tissue with numerous physiological functions which are irreversibly destroyed. the lost functions include protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual functions.<ref>{{REFweb
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