In Chinese medicine, depression can be divided into different kind of patterns according to different kind of symptoms. We call it depression, but different depressed people shows different symptoms. For instance, some people depressed alternating with panic attack. Some people depressed with a lot of phlegm symptoms, and for instance, they constantly clearing up their throat. They could have lipoma or other kind of nodules on the body part, or inside of the internal organs. Their face looks pale and dull; they have very less facial expression. They always feel tired, even though they sleeped a lot and they have very slow thinking and acting. If you look at their tongue, the tongue looks pale or purple, and have very thick, greasy white coating, and this group of symptoms we called phlegm and cheese stagnation pattern.