Depression is a mental disorder problem, patient will be in a depressed condition combined with lack of confidence and self respect. The patients will not show their attention on any daily activities which once they enjoyed to do. We can call this sicknesss as “condition of depleted happiness”. Depression is mental anomic condition that affects the daily living, studying, working, eating, sleeping and health care, including family care.
The cause of depression
Generally, depression is caused by many factors including mental, social, or circumstance factors which cause changes of the balance of chemicals in the body, these chemicals normally are factioned as neurotransmitters in the brain affecting the patient’s emotion. The depression is always caused by disappointment, or loss of loved ones, social pressures, studying, finance, works, loneliness, lack of love, warmth, or cares
The symptoms of depression
The patients who are in this condition will be depressed and will not want to do any activities that once they liked to do. they will feel unworthy, guilty, and sad without reason. They cannot help themselves. They despair, give up in life, and moreover, they have short memory, and isolate themselves from their society.Their sexual desire is decreased, and finally, some patients have an idea of committing suicide.
The treatment of depression
There are three important ways for the treatments of depression which are : phychological therapy, medicine, and electrical stimulation
In case you would like to check yourself if you are in depressed condition, we provide the following quesions you can use to check yourself : During last 2-3 weeks,
- are you worried, depressed everyday, or whole day?
- are you tired of everything ?
- are you tired of eating ?
- Do you have insomnia problem?
- are you anxious?
- Do you feel tired easily?
- Do you feel unworthy?
- Do you feel inattentive, or absent- minded?
- Are you bored or do you want to commit suiside?
If you are in depressed mood, and tired of everything for more than 2 weeks and your symtoms are combined with these 4 factors, you possibly are suffering from depression.
- lose weight, tired of eating
- insomnia
- anxious
- fatigue
- guilty, unworthy
- lack of concentration
- want to die (commit suicide)
