Depression and its symptoms

Depression Wears a Look:

A condition when one feels really gloomy and dejected by continued wrong harmful happenings around him/her and is not in a position to resolve the conflicts with self help is called depression. A person who is really depressed does not show any interest in work or does not feel like freaking out and at times feels even very lazy to get out of bed. This can be treated easily with the help of a psychologist or psychiatrist clinically.

Symptoms of Depression:

There are numerous symptoms of depression by which we can easily identify that the person needs immediate medical help or not:

• A helpless or hopeless feeling- The person who is depressed will look really miserable and will feel that there is nobody to help him/her around.

• Appetite Loss – The person will lose his appetite and either will not have interest in eating which will lead to weight loss or will have an enormous hunger where he/she will keep on eating which in turn lead to weight gain

• Loss of interest- They will surely lose interest even in day to day activities and always like to laze out in bed.

• Sleep pattern change- Either will get Insomnia which is lack of sleep or hypersomnia which is oversleep.

• Lack of concentration- Will lack concentration on anything and will face problems in taking any stable decisions or sometimes will start forgetting things.

• Often feel like Crying- the person affected often will feel like crying for anything and everything and at times for no reason at all.

• Giving away belongings- The person who has lost interest and is suffering from severe clinical depression will give away lots of precious things to others like household articles, jewellery, etc,

• Suicidal Thoughts- Will often pronounce attempts of suicide and at times try committing suicide.

Categories of Depression:

There are two categories of depression. One is Situational depression and the other one is clinical depression. When one gets disappointed or feel frustrated due to some loss (loss may be a person or a thing), he/she starts feeling depressed. This kind of depression is called as Situational depression, which happens normally to everyone.

A person who feels very sad and cannot concentrate on anything and at times gets irritated even for trivial things and starts shouting at others and at times feels like ending his own life by committing suicide then that person is sure suffering from clinical depression. This needs immediate medical help.

Helping a Depression Patient:

After knowing all about depression the question is, how a person suffering from depression can be helped. A patient with depression has to be reassured of his hidden talents and interact with him making him realize the potential in him, which can be achieved in the following manner:

• Try to acknowledge his/her feelings without being rude to them.

• Try not to blame them for not doing their regular chores at home or outside.

• Support him/her in all the way as much as possible with an ample amount of love and affection.

• If he/she is not able to identify the cause of his/her depression try helping him find that out first.

• If he/she is talking about suicide try to bring him out of that.

The careful handling of above issues with the person suffering from depression requires creating an atmosphere in which the depressed person feels relief and is interested that some one should listen to him patiently.

The above are the symptoms of depression along with best help and care suggestions, which can be provided to a depression patient to make him comfortable and open for a discussion on what is his mind instead of confining to self negative criticism creating a vicious circle with no end of the endogenous miseries.

Depression is not a disease. It is a condition, which can be rectified with a friendly environment, instead of relying on the medicines as a first course of action under observation of a Psychiatrist.