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What is depression?
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depression
We live in the 21st
century, new age of technological evolution and innovation to many
fields of human life, but what we see despite
this evolution is the health problems that arise in humanity and
especially mental health problems.
Why people suffer from
mental illnesses today?
Depression is one of
the most common illnesses in the world. Many people suffer from
depression. What causes depression? Why people suffer from
depression?
Depression in simple
words is a sad feeling that may last for days, weeks even months and
many years if it is severe, the patient lose every interest for life,
depression interferes in his daily life, and it is very difficult
for/him her to get through it.
We all have feelings
of sadness what that does it mean? Are we all depressed? Is this
depression? If we suffer from normal sadness in our daily life it
last only few days and then we are fine, depression is a mental
health illness and it can last for a long period of time without
changing the psycology. The patient feels everyday unpleasant,
nervous, sad, unsatisfied, he/she has pleasure to nothing, looses
interest for everything and in some cases lose interest for life,
depression is dangerous for a person, if he/she is diagnosed with
depression must take the appropriate treatment so to find help from a
mental doctor to get through this illness and return to the norman
daily life.
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Lonliness can cause
depression, the person suffers from loneliness, has pain, he/she
feels alone, nobody can understand him/her, she feels that life has
no meaning being alone, unemployment is also a big factor of bringing
people in this difficult emotional state and feel the awful
depression feeling.
What triggers the
depression?
- Lonliness is a factor of depression
- Unemployment aldo can cause depression as people are not able to find a job to earn their living and it is very difficult to feed their families, they get dissapointed and suffer from depression.
- Women after giving birth usually suffer from depression for a while, they get more nervous, and sad, they have to get prepared for new life and the big changes in their lifes, it is a difficult feeling to handle, now they have to grow a child and get prepared for it.
- Failures of life can cause depression if we are proud and we do not want to lose. Teenagers suffer from depression , not all of them of course, after an exam failure.
- Love issues is an important factor of youth depression.
- Cinema and ideal movies can cause depression feelings. Why movies? Yes movies, all this ideal world of the perfect families, perfect love, all this artificial paradise, can cause deep depression to youth, because when they get adults they realise that all this perfect world they grew up with their imaginanion was a lie, many of them have problems with their families, with their relationships, now they unerstant that love and relationships are not as ideal they were presented in love stories, and they start getting dissapointed, with the reality. It is not the rule, of course, many people build grate relations in their lifes but TV is a factor of a perfect world and the reality is different.
- Death is the most difficult part for someone who loses a loved one, depression is near, and it is very difficult to handle the psycology of these people suffering from pain losing their loved ones.
- Social concerns and problems may cause depression to responsible persons who have dreamed of a better society and realise that humans are not willing to help this dream to become true. Someone who is very responsible suffer from pain about children that do not have something to eat daily they are starving, divorces, death, orphanages, disabled, the elderly, and he can not do anything or is not allowed to help the world, he suffers from depression. Person who suffers from the pain for others, it is true there are people who have this kind of depression.
- Poverty
- Genetic factors. At higher risk are patients who came from relative first – degree that they were also suffered from depression.
- Some drugs an cause depression.
- Sever illnesses that last for years and may lead to death are big risk factors to trigger the depression.
These
are just 12 risk factors that can trigger the depression, this does
not mean that every person suffers from all these kind of factors,
only one of them is enough to start worry, and take care yourself the
ost you can.
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Depression
is a desease of kids if they suffer from a child trauma, teenages
also may be depressed of exam failures or love dissapointment, adults
may get depressed after a divorce, after a child death, unemployment,
and elderly of course is the age that we find the most depressed
people, the most difficult age is the third age where people are
getting alone, losing friends, loved ones, their children leave to
grow their families and have to waqit the day of their death, is not
the easiest thing.
Is there any
treatment fo depression?
If the
depression is just a sadness that lasts for a while there is a way to
get through it, love and music, good friend, and singing is enough.
clinical depression
But what if
depression is severe? If depression is a severe disease then the
patient should conduct a psycologist to make a serious conversation,
maybe he/she could help him with a deep discussion about the trigger
factors that caused the depression otherwise depends of the severety
of the depression maybe the patient should visit a mental doctor, a
psycotherapist for some advice, maybe he should take a drug treatment
to prevent the worst.
Symptoms of clinical depression
- depressed mood
- lose weight
- insomnia
- restlessness or slow behaviour
- loss of energy
- feelings of worthlessness or inapropriate guilt
- thoughts of death or suicide1,2,3
Thank you
for reading my article.
Megaartvision
24-8-2016
REFERENCES
1 http://www.mayoclinic.org/
2 http://www.webmd.com/
3 http://www.iatronet.gr/
REFERENCES
1 http://www.mayoclinic.org/
2 http://www.webmd.com/
3 http://www.iatronet.gr/
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