Depression

State of Depression:

Depression is a condition, when the person looks or feels sad after repeated one after the other disappointment pertaining to daily life. One acquires a devastating feeling, which overpowers man and acts as an impediment in the thinking process affecting right thinking and concentration, loosing interest in every thing like food, work place, one’s personal appearance, and disturbance in sleep etc.

Thus a vicious circle is formed due to which one goes in depression deeper and deeper day by day. The person is not in a position to express the sadness and believes he is lacking the necessary tactics.

The Depression can range from mild to severe some conditions requiring family support and public sympathy or treatment to correct the depression.
At one time or another a person suffers from Depression, human body has an autocorrect mode. If you forget some bad incidence associated with the depression, you have the ability to become normal;

The Yardstick of Depression:

DEPRESSION: It  is sum total of following effects, which play their role in causing a depression or rectifying the same in an easy to follow manner as given below:

Monitoring your Feelings: Full of depression, sadistic, anxiety of what has happened and what is not happening or boring without any contribution.

Measuring Energy: Feeling tired, getting fatigued, not able to make efforts, slow responses.

Sleep where it has gone: Wakeful Nights and Drowsy Days. No time to work.

Slow Thinking: Thinking not to be thought, misfit by deeds, concentration disturbed, habitual forgetter or indecision.

Loss of Interest: No interest in appearance, working place, life is dull.

Self Value: Diminished self Value, low profile feeling of deep seated guilt.

Body Aches: Body aches allover because of disuse.

Not Worth Living: Suicidal tendencies can be activated without any provocation.

If any of the five symptoms are present and persisting more than a fortnight, it is a clear cut sign of Depression.

Causes of Depression:

Depression in most cases a result of past repeated set backs during life pertaining to some death, relation break offs or monetary problems, dissatisfaction at work or a critical health problem. Any thing achieved is exhilaration and some thing not achieved is the opposite i.e. Depression. It is a reaction to wrong stimulus. Depression can have some hereditary causes also.

Various Faces of Depression:

Reactive Depression: An unhappy outcome in one’s normal living like a death of near and dear, disrupted spouse relations and or losing a source of income.
Endogenous Depression: It is also called un-ipolar because other end is not visible and is deep rooted. It can be reflected by extensive tiredness, slow thought process, lacking focus, no sleep at night and feeling worst early morning.

Manic Depressive Illness: it is also called bipolar. Depression alternates with a good feeling temporarily.

Treatment:

Bipolar depression and General depressions respond well with treatment under the care of a Psychologist with supporting attitude of the family members.