DEFINITION

The sensation of feeling sad, droop emotionally, and of losing interest in the things that earlier enjoyed is what is called a depression. It is necessary to be known that the depression is an illness as it can be the diabetes or the arthritis, and there is not alone a sensation of sadness or of despondency. This illness progresses every day affecting his thoughts, feelings, physical health, and his way of behaving.
The depression is not a fault of the person who endures it, and neither it is a weakness of the personality. It is a medical illness that is very frequent and can affect any person. Approximately 1 of every 20 persons, the women's double than of men

CAUSES

The depression can be the result of many reasons:

• The genetic heredity (it is transmitted in his family).
• Other illnesses.
• Certain medicines.
• The use of drugs or alcohol.
• Other (psychiatric) mental problems.

Sometimes a situation emotionally bad (loss of a relative, or a problem of work), they can unleash the depression or provoke that the patient could not recover completely, but in other occasions it appears even when everything in his lives goes well. Between 10 and 15 per cent of the depressions are provoked by a medical problem (illness of the thyroid gland, the cancer, or neurological illnesses) or by medicines. Once treatment happens against the illness, or the dose fits and the medicine adapted depression it will disappear.

SYMPTOMS

The persons who suffer from depression have certain typical symptoms that affect them almost every day at least for a period of two weeks.

Of these most typical symptoms they are:

• To lose interest in the things that earlier enjoyed.
• To feel sad, droop emotionally or crestfallen.

And they collaborate the secondary ones:

• To feel that it has no energy, tired, or on the contrary, to feel anxious and without being able to remain calm.
• To feel like that it does not cost anything or to feel guilty.
• That increases or diminishes the appetite or the weight.
• To have thoughts on the death or the suicide.
• To have problems to concentrate, to think, to remember, or to take decisions.
• Not to be able to sleep, or sleep too much.

Also there collaborate other symptoms of physical or psychological type, as they can be:

• Headaches.
• General pains on all the parts of the body.
• Digestive or gastric problems.
• Sexual problems.
• To feel pessimistic
• To feel anxious or worried.

TYPES OF DEPRESSION

• Severe depression. When the person presents almost all the symptoms of the depression and the depression prevents him from realizing his activities of the daily life.
• Moderate depression. When the person presents many of the symptoms of the depression and these prevent him from realizing the activities of the daily life.
• Light depression. When the person presents some of the symptoms of the depression and realizing his activities of the daily life it takes an extraordinary effort.

ATTITUDE BEFORE THE DEPRESSION

The ignorance of the depression like illness with all his possible symptoms leads the persons to being blamed to if the same for the symptoms, and they do not know that treatments exist for the illness. For it if some symptoms of the depression appear it has to of getting in touch with his family doctor, or other organizations of health.
In general what happens then is that:

• It will be a question of determining if there exists a physical reason that provokes the depression.
• Treatment will be provided against the depression.
• The patient will be recommended to a mental health specialist so that more evaluations and treatments are realized.

The treatment against the depression helps to reduce the worry of his illness, and makes to eliminate all the symptoms of the depression allowing to resume his normal life. The precocious treatment is more effective and while more time I happened before initiating it more difficult it will be to overcome the depression. The treatment can be evident in some weeks, although sometimes the correct treatment is not the first one and it will be necessary to change the same one up to meeting on the ideal for every case.

TREATMENT

The principal treatments against the depression are the following ones:

• The antidepressing medicines.
• The psychotherapy (to speak with a therapist specializing in these problems)
• A combination of the antidepressing medicines and the psychotherapy.

There exists a treatment adapted for each of the types of depression and he will be his doctor or therapist the one that diagnoses the type of depression that he endures and the treatment most adapted in his case begins.
The treatment for the depression generally is two steps, the first one is intensive to do that the symptoms of the depression disappear, and the second one is of continuation of the treatment, even after encuente well, it is important because it prevents the depression from returning. The treatment as a whole can last approximately six months. Sometimes if the depression is an appellant (three or more episodes), 1 realizes a maintenance treatment, for a longer period, ó 2 years.

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