Features of depression. Additional types of depression. Formal diagnostic criteria

psychiatrist,
psychotherapist,
psychologist-psychoanalyst,
Yekaterinburg city.

Disease of the 21st century

Sad time. Eye charm.
Your farewell beauty is pleasant to me.
I love the lush nature of wilting...
A.S. Pushkin.

We all remember these lines from childhood. It is known that the great poet suffered from depression and most often she came to him in the fall. But this autumn sadness at the same time brought with it an incentive for creativity.

It is known that such an increase in activity in the fall is characteristic of humanitarian types. But truly creative individuals in our society are only about 10%, and for the rest, a dull autumn time can even cause severe depression.

Why does depression occur?

The exact cause of depression is not yet known. It is believed that the interaction of several factors leads to it. Heredity matters - in some families, depression occurs in every generation. However, depression also occurs in people whose families have never mentioned this disease. Pessimists and people with low self-esteem are predisposed to the influence of stress and the development of depression. A stressful situation (loss of loved ones, loss of a job, etc.) can trigger the development of the first episode of depression, especially if a person has a hereditary predisposition. Subsequent bouts of depression may develop for no apparent reason, but if stress is repeated in a person's life, then these episodes may be more frequent.

Under the influence of stress, the work of certain brain structures that are involved in the production of special chemicals - neurotransmitters (serotonin, adrenaline), which are involved in the transmission of impulses between the cells of the nervous system, is inhibited. Violation of these processes leads to depression.

A bit of history

The first mention of mood disorders can be found in Hippocrates (450 BC). He called them melancholy and mania. In 1896 German psychiatrist Kraepelin described the disease, which he called manic-depressive psychosis. This name was used by doctors until the end of the twentieth century.

AT modern classification diseases this disease is called "Bipolar affective disorder" and is included in the group of affective disorders (mood disorders).

Women, older people and teenagers are more susceptible to depression.

8-12% of men and 20-26% of women are at risk of developing depression during their lifetime. According to the World Health Organization, the prevalence of depressive conditions is now such that they are already in second place in terms of causes and duration of disability after cardiovascular diseases.

Depression - what is it?

When we're in a bad mood, we often say, "I'm depressed." But this is only the everyday meaning of the word.

Psychologists often talk about seasonal depression is a decrease in mood and performance in certain time of the year. Autumn, winter, spring depression are described. So the only time of the year without depression is summer?

AT medical concept depression- this is not just a bad mood, as is commonly believed, but a serious disease that has certain clinical manifestations. It can occur at any time of the year, but it often begins with seasonal depression. Depression as a disease is included in a group of diseases called " affective disorders”, i.e. mood disorders.

Man of moods

Depression is green melancholy, and joy in the soul, cheerfulness and activity are great. But too good is also not good. Oddly enough, but excessively elevated mood can also be a manifestation of the disease.

Such a person also complains of bouts of depression. He is not bothered by his sometimes overly elevated mood, because this is a great time for him. Then he experiences an emotional rise, he is ready to move mountains, if they only dare to stand in the way. He does not have enough day and night to complete a bunch of his affairs and he dreams of extending the day for at least another hour. These conditions are much less common than depression. At the same time, the behavior of a person changes dramatically, attracting the attention of loved ones, and this helps to timely seek help.

Until the end of the twentieth century, a disease with a characteristic alternation of manic and depressive states was called manic-depressive psychosis. By new classification it got a beautiful name: "Bipolar affective disorder."

The causes and mechanism of the development of the disease are similar to those of depression, because this is one group of diseases. But in the case of bipolar disorder, biochemical changes are more pronounced. In the treatment of depression, the mood of such a patient can go into the opposite (manic) phase, therefore, in this case you need to take drugs that lead to mood stability. In this case, it is necessary to be treated for years and stop only under the supervision of a specialist.

case from practice

A young man, let's call him Andrei, was admitted to the hospital for the first time, at the age of 30, in a state of severe depression.

The boy grew up in an incomplete family, without a father. Andrei was very smart and quick-witted, he taught himself to read and at the age of 5 he read fairy tales to children in kindergarten, he easily studied at school. He was a very kind and sociable person. In adolescence, he developed causeless mood swings. More often in the fall or spring, something happened to Andrey - he didn’t sleep well, woke up with difficulty in the morning, was lethargic all day long, sad, didn’t play with friends, sometimes quarreled with his mother when she was interested in his affairs. After 2 - 3 weeks, the depression passed and he again became the same. He did not apply anywhere, continued to study, albeit with difficulty, but he graduated from high school and technical school. Because of this illness, he was not taken to the army, then he got married and started doing business. But it became more and more difficult to work - in addition to depression, there were periods of unusually elevated mood, when a young businessman could not correctly assess the situation, took unreasonable risks, lost money and got into debt. When the mood declined, he assessed his behavior with horror, and depression followed. Drinking alcohol brought little relief, but at the same time problems in the family and a painful feeling of guilt towards loved ones. In moments of extreme despair, I did not want to see anyone, do anything, even live. Then Andrei took a ticket for any train and left "wherever his eyes look." But for some reason he always met kind people who, seeing his condition, helped him return home. After another “flight”, the man finally went to the doctor and began treatment.

After 2 weeks of treatment, Andrey felt much better and he started working again and stopped taking antidepressants. But the disease returned, and this time his "flight from himself" lasted a whole week.

Now Andrey continues treatment...

Manifestations of depression

Main symptoms:

1. Decreased (depressed, depressed, dreary) mood.
2. Loss of interest and pleasure in things and activities that used to be enjoyable.
3. Decreased energy, which leads to increased fatigue and reduced activity.

If these typical symptoms last at least two weeks, every day and take up most of the day, then in this case we can talk about depression as a disease that needs to be treated.

There are also additional symptoms that often join the main symptoms of depression:

• Decreased ability to concentrate and concentrate.
• Low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence.
• Thoughts of guilt and self-blame.
• A gloomy and pessimistic vision of the future.
• Thoughts or actions related to suicide or self-harm.
• Sleep disturbances - insomnia, difficulty falling asleep or early awakenings.
• Appetite disorders - more often its absence and weight loss.
• Violation of sexual desire.
• Noticeable lethargy or excessive fussiness.
• Increased depression and depressive experiences in the morning and a slight improvement in the evening.

How to help?

If you see that you loved one depression - give it to him more attention, talk to him. Discuss his problems to find solutions together, give him support, remind him that you love him ... Try to distract him from gloomy thoughts. For this purpose, some entertainment can help, interesting film, a trip to the theater or a regular family dinner, and even some work done together. It is known that sweet foods, especially chocolate, improve the metabolism of serotonin in the body, leading to an improvement in mood. According to some information, no a large number of serotonin contain bananas.

You should not get carried away with alcohol - although it brings relief for a while, but after the termination of its action, depression returns in a more severe form due to the manifestations of a hangover syndrome.

Many patients with depression, especially women, find it useful to update their wardrobe by adding warm and bright colors to it, change their image in some way, visit a hairdresser, etc.

If, despite this, depressive manifestations persist, the help of a specialist - a psychologist or psychotherapist - is needed.

It must be remembered in any disease that the sooner treatment is started, the greater the chance of success.

Depression is the most "curable" of all mental disorders. Ongoing Research in this area led to the creation of new highly efficient medicines for the treatment of depression, which have virtually no negative side effects. With the right and enough long-term treatment depression often resolves completely, but if help is insufficient, the disease can become chronic.

With a mild depressive state, sometimes the help of a psychotherapist is enough, with more serious condition the use of drugs - antidepressants. Usually improvement occurs after 1 - 2 weeks of treatment and by the end of the month the condition improves significantly. However, it is necessary to continue treatment, since only the external manifestations of depression have disappeared, and for complete cure a longer time is needed - from 6 months to a year, only then the risk of recurrence of depression can be minimal.

Treatment ends gradually under the supervision of a doctor.

According to the World Health Organization, the risk of a recurrence after the first depressive episode is 50-60%, after the second - 60-70%.

If you or someone close to you suffers from depression, do not waste time and consult a specialist. There is no need to suffer if it is possible to get the necessary and effective help.

Svetlana Ovchinnikova,
psychotherapist-psychoanalyst.

Ways to get out of depression are inherent in ourselves - we just need to be able to activate them, says neuroscientist David Servan-Schreiber. Sometimes this requires the help of a psychotherapist, but we can change the physical activity, nutrition and our environment ourselves.

Standing on the Pont Neuf, I watch the Seine flow between the white stones. On the beach, in the heart of Paris, a man is fishing with his son. The boy has just caught a fish, and his eyes are shining with happiness.

I often think of long walks along this same river with my father when I was that boy's age. My father told me that when he was little, his father, my future grandfather, still bathed in the Seine, even in winter. And he added that now the river is so polluted that it is not only impossible to swim in it, but even there are no fish.

Thirty years later, the fish returned. Maybe it's time to swim again. It was enough to stop polluting the Seine for it to cleanse itself. Rivers are living beings. They, like us, strive for balance, homeostasis. Basically, self-healing. When they are left alone, when they stop throwing waste into them, they are purified.

Like all living things, rivers live in constant interaction with their environment: rain, air, earth, trees, algae, fish and people. And this living exchange creates order, organization, and ultimately cleanliness.

Only stagnant waters are not involved in the exchange and therefore rot. Death is the opposite of life: there is no more interaction with the outside world, and the constant restoration of balance, order, characteristic of life, gives way to chaos and destruction. But as long as the natural forces are active, they are drawn towards balance.

Aristotle believed that any form of life hides in itself a force that he called "entelechy", or self-completion. A seed or an egg contains the power to become a much more complex organism, be it a flower, a tree, a chicken, or a person. This process of self-completion is not only physical - in man it continues with the acquisition of wisdom. Carl Jung and Abraham Maslow made the same observation. The mechanisms of self-healing and self-completion were seen by them as the foundation of life itself.

The treatments I've talked about on previous pages are designed to support the self-completion mechanisms inherent in all living beings, from cells to entire ecosystems, including humans. Precisely because they use the natural forces of the body and contribute to finding harmony, they are very effective and have almost no side effects. Since each of these methods supports the efforts of the brain and body to find harmony in its own way, they have a strong joint action(synergy), and it would be a mistake to choose one of them to the exclusion of all the others. Together, these methods mutually reinforce each other, having the ability to stimulate the activity of the parasympathetic system, which calms and heals the body and soul at a deep level.

In the 1940s, with the advent of antibiotics, medicine changed radically. For the first time, with the help of medical treatment, it was possible to defeat diseases that until then were considered fatal. Pneumonia, syphilis, gangrene receded before simple drugs. Their effectiveness was so high that it led to a revision of the postulates of medicine, which were considered immutable. Communication "doctor - patient", food, behavior of the patient - everything turned out to be unimportant. The patient took his pills, and they helped: even if the doctor did not talk to him, even if the diet was wrong, and even if the patient himself remained completely indifferent to his treatment. It was from this fantastic success of antibiotics in the West that a new approach in practical medicine was born: one that does not take into account either the circumstances of the disease, or the patient's inner vitality, or his ability to heal himself. This mechanical approach has become mainstream in medicine, moving beyond infectious diseases.

To date, almost all medical education is to learn how to diagnose the disease and prescribe the appropriate treatment. This approach works great for acute cases: when you need to operate on appendicitis, prescribe penicillin for pneumonia or cortisone for allergies ... However, when it comes to chronic diseases, this approach only helps to cope with symptoms and exacerbations. As well as we can treat heart attacks and save the patient's life with oxygen, trinitrine and morphine, just as well this treatment of ours does not cope with a disease in which the coronary arteries of the heart are clogged. Not so long ago, it was possible to establish that only cardinal changes in the patient's lifestyle can make this ailment recede. We are talking about stress management, nutrition control, physical activity and so on.

The same is true with depression, which is a chronic disease in the fullest sense of the word. It would be misleading to believe that a single intervention, no matter how good it may be, can for a long time balance the complex set of causes that have supported the disease for many years and even decades. All practitioners and theorists of medicine agree on this. Even the most die-hard supporters of psychoanalysis on the one hand, and the most advanced neuropsychologists on the other, are forced to admit: the best treatment chronic depression, which only classical medicine can offer, combines psychotherapy and drug treatment. This is supported by an impressive multi-university study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

I started with the image of a river that cleanses itself when a person stops polluting it. Similarly, in the treatment of chronic diseases, it is necessary to develop a program that will solve the problem, while simultaneously using various mechanisms of self-healing. It is necessary to create a powerful synergy of different intervention methods that will outstrip the development of the disease. It is in order to create this synergy that I have described the various ways of self-healing in this book. Their combination, adapted to each specific case, is more likely to transform emotional pain and restore vitality.

We have looked at many ways to get to the bottom of emotional being and re-establish coherence. But where to start? The experience gained at the Pittsburgh Complementary Medicine Center has made it possible to develop fairly simple rules for choosing, suitable for each person. Here they are.

1. First of all, one should learn to control your inner state. Each of us throughout life finds for himself ways of self-comfort that help to overcome difficult moments. Unfortunately, more often we are talking about cigarettes, chocolate, ice cream, beer or whiskey, and even anesthesia with TV programs. These are the most common ways to distract from life's adversities. If we resort to the help of classical medicine, these daily toxins are easily replaced by tranquilizers or antidepressants. And if friends and classmates give us advice instead of a doctor, tranquilizers, as a rule, are replaced by more radical methods of self-comfort: cocaine or heroin.
   Obviously, such ineffective and most often toxic effects should be replaced by techniques that use the self-healing capabilities of the emotional brain and allow you to restore harmony between reason, emotions and a sense of self-confidence. In Pittsburgh, we encouraged each patient to discover their ability to cohere in the heart and learn to enter into this state at the slightest stress (or when it is tempting to relax with a less healthy and less effective way to relieve tension).
2. If possible, Painful past events that continue to evoke feelings in the present should be identified. Most often, patients underestimate the significance of the emotional abscesses that they carry within themselves and which affect their attitude towards life, impoverishing it. Most medical practitioners tend to be oblivious to this, or they don't know how to help patients release bad memories. But usually a few sessions of EMDH (desensitization and processing by eye movement, a modern method of psychotherapy. - Approx. ed.) are enough to get rid of the burden of the past and give rise to a new, more harmonious outlook on life.
3. Not less important always analyze chronic conflicts in emotional relationships: both in personal life - with parents, spouses, children, brothers and sisters - and at work. These relationships directly affect our emotional ecosystem. By becoming healthier, they will allow you to regain inner balance. And by continuing to regularly pollute the "stream" of our emotional brain, in the long run, they block the mechanisms of self-healing.
   Sometimes, simply revisiting past traumas allows emotional relationships to resurface with renewed vigor. By freeing yourself from the ghosts, which, I note, have nothing to do in the present, you can discover a whole new way to connect with other people. When we learn to control our heart coherence, it will be easier for us to manage our emotional relationships. Non-violent communication also allows you to directly and effectively harmonize emotional contacts and find inner balance. We must constantly strive for better emotional communication. If learning these methods from an experienced psychotherapist is not enough, one should get involved in the more complex process of family therapy (when the most important conflicts lie in the sphere of personal life).




4. Almost everyone will benefit power correction, allowing you to get the required amount fatty acids omega-3, thus delivering the ideal building material for body and brain to recover. Today it is known that the so-called "Cretan" (Mediterranean) diet allows not only to cope with stress and depression, but also to increase heart rate variability. Therefore, everyone should reconsider their diet, preferring fish (or taking omega-3s in the form of dietary supplements) and reducing their consumption of omega-6s.
available to everyone and almost does not require financial investments. As for the time spent, it is enough to practice for twenty minutes three times a week.
5. It is also within our power to change our way to wake up in the morning. To reset the biological clock, it is enough to replace the alarm clock with a lamp that simulates dawn - the effort is minimal, and the result can be impressive.
6. Acupuncture On the contrary, it requires time and money investments. I recommend it mainly to those who, in addition to emotional suffering, also have physical problems - mainly pain. In such a situation, needles usually allow you to deal with both problems at the same time (it is very difficult to alleviate depression for someone who is constantly tormented by pain in the body).
7. And finally, to achieve true inner peace, it is very important to have a deeper understanding of the role we play in society, beyond our family. Those who have managed to find meaning in this, as a rule, are not limited only to achieving peace of mind. There is a feeling that these people discover a source of energy that gives life a new impetus.

Like all French schoolchildren, at the age of sixteen I read Camus' novel "The Outsider". I remember very well the excitement that seized me then. Yes, Camus is right, nothing makes sense. We swim blindly in the river of life, stumble upon strangers who are as confused as we are, arbitrarily choose paths that determine our entire destiny, and ultimately die without having time to understand what we should have done. to another... And if we are lucky, we will be able to maintain the illusion of wholeness, while at least partially realizing the universal absurdity of being. This awareness of the absurdity of existence is our only advantage over animals. Camus is right. There is nothing more to wait.

Today, at forty-one years old, after many years spent at the bedside of men and women of all nationalities, confused and suffering, I again remember the "Outsider", but in a completely different way. It is now absolutely clear to me that Camus' character has lost touch with his emotional brain. He had no inner peace, or he never turned to it: he did not feel sadness or pain at his mother's funeral, he did not feel tenderness in the presence of his wife; he hardly felt anger as he prepared to commit murder. And apparently he had no connection to a society he could cherish (hence the title of the book).

But our emotional brain, the product of millions of years of evolution, just craves these three aspects of life that the Outsider did not have access to: emotions, which are the movements of the soul of our body, harmonious relationships with those who are dear to us, and the feeling that we occupy their place in society. Deprived of them, we look in vain for the meaning of life outside of ourselves, in a world where we have become ... outsiders.

It is the waves of sensation emanating from these sources of life to activate our body and our emotional neurons that give our existence direction and meaning. And we can become healthy only by developing each of them.

David Servan-Schreiber

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Discussion

Depression is generally not a pleasant state for the person himself and the people around him. But I think it's hard to get out of it. It's good to have family or friends help. At one time, a friend helped me, she dragged me everywhere, shops, walks, a summer residence, and so on. Well, I supplemented it with vitamins.

Of course, first of all, go to the doctor, maybe she will write something useful. Well, if your legs don’t reach there, then you can drink bioadditives for now. It’s just that she herself suffered the same garbage, and for a long time, she drank and fees and herbs, by the way, and I have a cat, so we cuckooed at night with him sitting on the bed. At that time, I bought at the pharmacy the dietary supplement "Tryptophan Calm Formula". Well, I can say that after drinking the course, I said goodbye to insomnia, and the drug "works" even after the end of the intake (apparently, the accumulated effect, like many dietary supplements). I, too, had no particular illusions about dietary supplements, but here we must pay tribute - it works. The sleep became good, plus the anxiety went away, I became more calm. So, try it, it won’t be worse in any case, the composition is natural there.

after childbirth severe depression and I don't know how to get rid of it

I got depressed after the divorce, at first I couldn’t sleep - there was no sleep and that’s it, then self-criticism began (they say, it’s my own fault), then thoughts appeared that everything was over and there would never be joy in life. to the point of thinking about death. As a result, I went to a neurologist, who prescribed mexiprim for a healthy sleep, psychotherapy is a must, moderate sports such as fitness ... and I won’t say that life began to improve, but I began to sleep and thoughts of death were gone.

as I remember, the hardest thing was to force myself to do something: get up, put in order, go to work, and even go to the gym - it was just a feat.

with no help from loved ones. Either “you must be strong”, then “he himself is a goat, it’s right that he left it”. All around accusations of weakness. So terrible... And when I realized that all these "shoulds" drive me even further, I began to allow myself to be weak... the first in our family. I allowed myself to get sick and even go to the doctor, and not courageously bear the cross. And this is where my recovery began.

To avoid depression. you need to think positively and not take all the problems to heart. Otherwise, no health is enough to survive all the depression.
Thanks for the article!

Yeah. Depression is a problem. You need to rest, sleep, eat well and everything will pass.

Such an instructive article. I, an emotional person, often irritate everything and my mood jumps like pressure. So it is useful for me to read such articles.

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Of course, this is a painful condition. Depression is a hard thing and to get out of it alone accumulated fatigue can drag you into depression. You need to spit on everything and leave. It was like that for me, to the point of trembling and tears, I couldn’t do anything ...

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Of course, this is a painful condition. Depression is hard and hard to get out of it alone. You need to set some goal for yourself, for example, to change the situation for a short time, I’m sure that you haven’t been anywhere for a long time. Be sure to set a goal before leaving to clean your apartment in order to return to a clean house and your condition has not worsened from rest, but on the contrary, set the tone for you. To begin with, decide on what day and what time you can pay attention to this painstaking task. Cleaning hastily "come on, come on!" nothing good can come of it. In a hurry, you can only make a mess, and not order or throw out something you need. If you don't know where to start, then start with SORTING items, take a small area, corner or cabinet or drawer where cleaning is required. At first it will be superficial. rags in one pile, all sorts of paper documents, checks, brochures in another pile, cosmetics in a third, trinkets in a fourth, medicines separately, etc. In a separate bag, put aside what no doubt needs to be thrown away. By the end of the cleaning, expose this bag to the exit. When your husband returns, boast to him that you have finally begun a gradual cleaning. And show at the same time a bag of garbage, I think that it will help to take it out, even if there is a garbage chute. Take pictures (for yourself) of what was "before" and "after" what happened. Don't rush and everything will be fine. It's just that you are stressed at work, and at home you relax. And do not read vile comments here, they are written by narrow-minded, mediocre people, they are "fat meats" as a rule and cannot give practical advice. These are mediocrities who just want to say - you would better soul you need to clean yours!

04/10/2018 09:05:06, dawn

I had a real, not invented depression, at the age of 30, it looked like this: nothing in life has meaning, life itself has no meaning. It happens. I treat it with a large dose of adrenaline, received after the onset of a global ass after ...

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I had a real, not invented depression, at the age of 30, it looked like this: nothing in life has meaning, life itself has no meaning. I listened to a friend, for example, about the fact that she bought herself a new washing machine, and I myself thought: "why do you need to buy something, everything is pointless, everyone will die someday." I myself am now reading and I understand that words cannot describe my condition correctly until you feel it, it would be good for no one to experience it.

To begin with, exclude organic matter - everything below is written correctly for you, hemoglobin, thyroid gland, and sugar needs to be checked.
If all this is normal, you can think about depression. But in general, depression is not diagnosed in 3 days.

Depression of a mother with many children. Firstly, lack of sleep has accumulated and fatigue is simply terrible. Depression - no, or a small child: only pluses. Depression of a mother with many children. Two features of the mother's behavior make a child a personality depressive type: overprotection and...

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In past years, I thought it was depression and lack of finances. Ha ha, then I found out that it can be worse, and there is no time to suffer from depression, just "I'll think about it tomorrow" (c)

I have three children, the oldest is 4 years old, the middle one is 3 and the youngest is 1. The middle child has autism. Well, to say I'm depressed is an understatement. When the little one was half a year old, she was even afraid to open the windows, as there was a desire to throw herself out. Panic attacks developed from stress. constant sleep deprivation, chronic stress, the eternal lack of money, even the pampas had to be abandoned, it's just tin, at home you have to clean and wash all the time (srach breeds instantly), endless trips to the clinic. There is no place in the apartment where they won't get you. Many thanks to the special kindergarten, where they took the middle daughter, if it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be here. So it could be much worse, don't be sad.

I was always well-groomed, I always bought something for myself, I did it, I have my own beauty salon, I was interested in all sorts of jars-bottles to the point of shaking ... and that's how it fell off ... on the one hand, to me If not, then you not depression, but maybe fatigue.

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Get enough sleep. Review the organization of the salon. Since it takes 6 days / 12 hours, then something is not optimal. Change a couple of employees. To get acquainted with a pleasant caring man, to use him without a twinge of conscience. Get enough sleep.

What is the daily routine? Maybe you just don’t get enough sleep, what beauty is there?

How to deal with depression?. Serious question. About his own, about a girl's. Discussion of questions about the life of a woman in the family, at work, relationships with men. It seems that I have a classic depression, out of the blue: apathy, life seems meaningless, I can’t work ...

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this is not depression, the topic is written sensibly and energetically
invite guests, the apartment will have to be cleaned by their arrival
get back to your interesting projects
in the summer it is always sad in the city, because many are leaving, the usual rhythm of communication is lost
relax about your personal life
it's pretty hard to be successful at everything

Something familiar, I think...

Two, IMHO, ways:
1. Or, as the dachshund advises, lose to the end.
2. Or - this is how I would do it - introduce tough self-discipline. My former boss, an Englishman, in excellent physical shape, over 60, got a big promotion, where the work involves a freak load (two or three business trips a week, long flights). The first thing he did was stop drinking (before that he drank - half a glass, one glass of red), absolutely, completely. And so a healthy diet has tightened up, or something. There are some germinated grains. Lost weight, but energy .... dear mother.

I don't drink at all in the middle of the week now, unless something extraordinary and entertaining happens. Try not to feel sorry for yourself. Boot up. Get tired of physical activity - not because you want to, but because you need to. Healthy simple food. Light dinner and yogurt. Sports, such as running - and try to load the muscles, and not just grimacing in front of the mirror. More water. Yes, you know everything. Otherwise, IMHO, a vicious circle - feel sorry for yourself, drink, eat, swollen and tired in the morning, and all over again. Good luck. Sorry that I write here, and not on soaps.

operation, ulcer, mastopathy and depression. Diseases. Medicine and health. And in general, everything is bad: (What to do? Help. I try to convince myself every day that I don’t have depression (with varying success), and starting to drink antidepressants means capitulating ...

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SW. Sonyukha! My advice: in addition to a good gastroenterologist, you need to contact an endocrinologist: I have a similar situation: from the 7th month of pregnancy I lay in bed, while there was weakness, sweating, a feeling of fear, etc. After childbirth (a month later), the gallbladder was removed, weakness did not stop, there was liquid stool, nausea, a feeling of heat, cold, fear for oneself and all the next of kin (all the time I was afraid that someone would die), in general, what was happening in 2 words cannot be conveyed. although all tests are good. Then I found an endocrinologist, they took tests for thyroid and adrenal hormones, they did an ultrasound, they drank a course of pills to restore the functioning of various organs and things started to get better, now I repeat the course for prevention.

Yes, yes, everything is exactly like that, and anemia, and low blood pressure, and lack of vitality generally. Plus depression, and stress, and all that.
I got it. Thanks to all. And I will definitely sit on vegetables and fruits :)

1. There may be medical problems, the thyroid gland, for example. It would not hurt to go to the doctor, only to the good, not to the district clinic, although with SUCH fatigue, dragging yourself and the doctor to the doctor is stressful.
2. In any case, the diet helps - not quantitative, but qualitative - give up fried, smoked, fatty, buns and sweets for 2 weeks. Eat fresh vegetables, cereals, low-fat dairy products, meat, fish, boiled or baked chicken for pleasure.
3. I will say the terrible word charging. It is better to do yoga exercises for stretching and breathing, 15-20 minutes, not necessarily in the morning, you can do it after work, most importantly, not on a full stomach.
P.p. 2 and 3 personally help me a lot, I’m just starting to fly, but alas, I don’t practice all the time :(

About depression. Interesting on the web. About his own, about a girl's. Discussion of questions about the life of a woman in the family, at work, relationships with men. My beloved noticed me, but I snapped and said that everything was normal. and I don't have the ability to hide my feelings...

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It's wonderful that you can't understand, so it wasn't with you.
This is when you think all day - it would rather be evening, and then you go to bed, because. you don’t have the strength to do anything, and then you wake up at 3 a.m. and think about life, you think, and two conflicting feelings - the night would soon pass and 6 a.m. wouldn’t come, otherwise you have to get up and go to work.
This is when nothing brings joy, even what was happy a month ago.
This is if no one touches, then he would lie on the couch for days without getting up.
This is when you become unnecessary to yourself and enthusiastically suck on thoughts of suicide.
And this does not last a day, two, a week, but for months ...

P.S. With me it was at the age of 23, so the next crisis of age passed. She left on her own, without doctors and medicines. Then, six months later, I read about this condition in honey. magazine, and what threatens and what needs to be treated. It was 100% recognizable. Now I follow the rules of mental hygiene, and with signs of disorder in my soul, I take measures - they are described below. Sometimes I change my life, sometimes my attitude towards it. It's been 10 years and it hasn't happened again. I guess I had to go through THIS in order to become a different person.

AT biological sense, this is a violation of the chemical processes in the brain, mainly due to stress, although there are also organic disorders, as in manic-depressive psychosis. Depression mainly affects the production of serotonin. Without going into details, I will say that the normal chemical feedback in the brain with depression and other emotional disorders turns into a vicious circle. If you have already experienced depression at least once, then you probably know what the harbingers of this state are, and that when the next attack occurs, the most important thing is not to let yourself slip into it. How is another question.

It’s hard for you, it’s hard for him, but you just talk ... And not blaming each other, but as if listing all the problems and difficulties, but at least write everything down on a piece of paper. So it will be clearer to both what the problem is.
Let your husband read the conf, the answers ... The main thing is to both understand that now is a difficult period for both. Now both of you are no longer living for yourself, but for the third little man. And this must be taken into account. :)
This happens in almost all families, so the family, if you like, is checked for strength.
Good luck!!

Depression is translated from Latin as repressed human condition. This is a special mental disorder and therefore it is very important to know how to get out of depression on your own or with the help of specialists. After all, it is characterized by a decline in vitality and mood, pessimistic assessment of the world around us, including ourselves, inhibited condition of motor and intellectual development, somatoneurological disorders of the nervous system.

Depression is characterized by such as low self-esteem, various cognitive properties associated with one's own destruction and renunciation of oneself from the external environment.

The person who is in depressed state differs from other people in the prevalence and variety of underestimations of his personality.

So, from this article you will learn:

• What is depression, melancholy;
• Types and signs of depression (postpartum depression, etc.);
• Symptoms of depression in women and men;
• How to get out of depression - 10 tips on what to do and how to get rid of it yourself;
• etc.

What is depression, how to get rid of it and how to get out of this state, read further in the article. Types, symptoms and signs

Depression- this is fairly common mental illness to date. Doctors often equate it with a cold, since according to statistics, in percentage terms, these diseases are much more common than others.

You can often hear the phrase " I am depressed from an absolutely healthy person. Basically, people who feel failed in any life endeavors.

But despite their failures, a person continues to live in his usual environment, without making any changes in his life.

From another point of view, the person who actually suffers depressive disorders constantly experiencing depressed state and feeling of helplessness and alienation who never leave him for a second, does not notice his morbid condition, or rather, simply does not want admit to being sick .

This fact significantly violates the ability of people to adequately relate to the world around them, prevents them from communication with colleagues at work and with their family, as there is no or significantly reduced ability to logically and adequately evaluate one or another vital important situation.

Today, depression is one of the major public concerns. First of all, this is due to the increase in such a disease among people.

The relevance of this problem in Russia, according to psychologists associated with the economic crisis in the country. People don't have confidence tomorrow, do not understand in the current conditions, are worried about their future and the future of their children, in this regard the amount of stress in the population increases.

Depression is hard to detect., which affects a more in-depth study of this disease and its causes.

Only results scientific research will help create the most relevant approach and diagnosis of depression and the implementation of related care for people who are concerned about stressful situations and other psychological disorders.

2. What is melancholy 😟?

Melancholia is a disorder of the human psyche, which is accompanied by a number of characteristic symptoms.

These include: inability to experience joyful events, a certain degree of reduced thinking, lack of good mood, decrease in active life position.

People who are in state of melancholy prone to negative reasoning about life and others, they have a pronounced pessimistic mood in relation to real events.

People with this disease lose some interest in your job, they have no appetite, self-esteem is low. (We already wrote about how to raise our self-esteem in the article -?)

Today, melancholy occurs in almost half of the population. According to statistics, after the age of thirty, approximately 70% women suffer from this disease.

The likelihood of psychiatric disorders and children adolescence , is also quite high.

To date, medicine is excellent at helping with the treatment of this condition. How exactly to recover from it is described in detail below.

Important point!

Before starting treatment, it is important to clarify the diagnosis correctly. That the disease is precisely depression, and not the usual blues which happens in spring period or typical mood swings and temporary life difficulties.

Serious intervention of specialists and properly selected medicines require biochemical, as well as psychosomatic consequences of the disease.

The idea that depression is disease of the 21st century, is erroneous in terms of experienced doctors. Since this disease was known and quite common in the distant past. Medieval healers defined depression as the last and worst stage of melancholy.

In ancient times, this disease was treated with tincture of opium, mineral healing waters, cleansing enemas, as well as full-fledged and long sleep.

The causes of depression are usually complex disorders nervous system, the factors of which are internal or external influences on the human psyche.

3. The main causes of depression 📝

• Alzheimer's disease.
• Increased load on the brain due to prolonged stress.
• Use narcotic substances.
• Psychological trauma, for example, the death of a relative, the loss of a job.
• Climatic or seasonal factors, such as in spring or winter.
• Excessive physical or mental stress.
• Iatrogenic type of depression. Excessive use of drugs.
• Various head injuries.
• Separation from a loved one.
• Changing of the living place.
• (the habit of putting off important things for later).

It is not uncommon for a person to experience depression for no reason. According to experts in similar situations an important factor is disruption of normal neurochemical functions in the human brain.

4. Signs of depression in women and men 📚 - symptoms of "illness"

The states of human depression manifest themselves quite diversely, while, in most cases, they affect the body as a whole. Conduct to specialists accurate diagnosis diseases help complex symptoms , and this, in turn, contributes to the appointment correct and effective treatment.

The doctor can prescribe certain medications, as well as concomitant therapy, only making a general diagnosis of the patient's mental disorder.

As a rule, the physiological signs of a state of depression differ individual characteristics organism.

For example, most people loss of appetite, and for some it is quite the opposite exacerbates during illness. The same feature applies to problems with full-fledged sleep person. One patient may suffer from insomnia and the other- constantly wants to sleep and suffers from a feeling of fatigue around the clock.

Symptoms of depression are divided into several groups according to concomitant symptoms.

Symptom #1. Emotional manifestations of depression in humans

• Decreased or lost interest in life and the world around.
• Increased irritability, even for no particular reason.
• Depressed mood, feeling of melancholy and despair.
• Feelings of helplessness and guilt in any situation.
• Low self-esteem.
• A state of anxiety and panic.
• Anxiety, for example, for their loved ones.
• Inability to be satisfied with previously favorite hobbies.
• Anticipation of disaster and other unforeseen events.
• Loss of emotional sensitivity.

Symptom #2. Physiological manifestations of depression in humans

• Pain psychosomatic nature. For example, arms, legs, stomach, heart, head, etc. hurt.
• Violation or lack of sleep.
• Low performance.
• Disorders of the human digestive system.
• Increased fatigue, even with minor physical exertion.
• Increased appetite, or its complete absence.
• Decreased sexual desire, up to the onset of impotence (in men).
• Weakness with any physical exertion.

Symptom #3. Significant changes in people's behavior

• Alcohol abuse.
• A tendency to loneliness and not wanting to communicate with other people.
• Lack of desire for entertainment and hobbies.
• The use of psychotropic and narcotic substances in order to improve mood.
• Passive life position.
• Replacing important, necessary and urgent matters with a waste of time.
• Preference for a sedentary or recumbent lifestyle.

Symptom #4. Cognitive disorders of the human nervous system.

• Difficulties in making any independent decisions.

• Loss of clarity of thought and inability to focus on anything in particular.
• Loss of the ability to concentrate one's thoughts.
• Lack of attention.
• Periodic thoughts about committing suicide.

As with any disease, whether it is a cold or a cough, if timely treatment of depression with properly selected drugs is not started, the patient's condition will worsen daily.

This increases the number of symptoms of the disease and their severity, which can even lead to suicide food patients, especially, if we consider depression of adolescence.

Not infrequently, the thinking of a sick person is so critical that they can easily be mistaken for dementia of a person, instead of a serious mental disorder associated with a neglected state of depression.

Often the disease is accompanied by an increased attraction of one's own attention to life problems. A patient, usually, completely sure that he has mental, or somatic disease.

In order for the doctor to correctly diagnose and prescribe the appropriate treatment, a stable ( at least 14 days) the presence of any of the above signs of depression in a person.

5. Main types of depression 📑

1. Endogenous depression

Endogenous depression is a severe form of the disease. It brings a lot of suffering like the sickest person, as well as his family and all those around him.

To detect an endogenous type of depression in a person, there are certain symptoms.

These primarily include: inability to sleep in evening time , as well as early awakenings at dawn, lack of interest in the outside world and society.

There are also external signs this type of disease. These include: heightened state of anxiety, the systematic presence of causeless sadness and melancholy, depressed state of a person.

Minor signs of endogenous depression in a patient are: slow motion, constant stoop, quiet and uncertain speech.

The external features of such people are lifeless dull hair, as well as an earthy and gloomy complexion.

Characteristic features the presence of an endogenous type of depression in a person is delayed thinking and reasoning, absence concentration and attention, memory problems, no absolutely no desires or interests.

Advanced forms of this serious mental illness lead to deterioration general condition sick, there is apathy towards the world around and society as a whole. Patients characterize their state of health, in the form of heaviness in the soul, a depressed state, similar to the extent of a serious illness, and other similar symptoms.

People with this disease usually , with indifference apply to all surrounding citizens, including closest relatives. They lock themselves in their inner world and think only about their difficult life fate.

From the social position in society, such patients try everything possible ways step back.

2. Manic depression

Allocate such a group of people who, in the course of the disease, develop megalomania, inappropriate behavior in any given situation, unexplained mood swings, for example, sudden onset of joyful emotions, or vice versa, sadness. This type of mental disorder is called manic depression, in other words, bipolar mental disorder .

This disease makes people irritable, overly active and quite self-confident.

Manic depression can be expressed in various forms.

The initial stage of this mental disorder of a person is a mild form of the disease, called - cyclothymia . Citizens suffering from this type of depression experience constant mood swings. They may have no reason to cry or laugh. The initial stage of mania appears (mild form).

The most dangerous is bipolar in other words, a major depression. At the stages of exacerbation of this serious mental illness, a person has obsessive thoughts about committing suicide, and during the manic phase of depression, all bad thoughts instantly disappear, clarity of mind and sobriety of mind appear. In addition, these patients are not able to foresee the dangerous consequences of their own actions in advance.

Not infrequently found dysthymia diseases . This is a depressive nervosa, most easy stage man's depressive disorder. Otherwise, it is called minor depression or minor depressive disorder of the human nervous system. This includes postpartum depression , which is detailed below.

In various manifestations, depression is such a state of a person in which he disfigures the manners of behaving in society by himself. Not a single person is immune from diseases of a depressive disorder of the nervous system.

The state of depression can hit absolutely anyone century a, old and young, single people and divorced or never had a family, the poor and millionaires. By the way, we also wrote in the last article.

In the life of every citizen, such events can occur that will certainly lead him to overstrain and stressful situations, which are the initial stage of a depressive disorder of the human nervous system, especially if unpleasant events simultaneously overtake the psyche or their systematic sequence follows.

When applying for psychological help women, in most cases detected and diagnosed major depressive disorder nervous system, compared with cases of male patients seeking help.

Experts are of the opinion that women more often recognize a serious illness in their condition and rush to see a doctor, and men They try to be treated on their own, so they rarely go to the hospital.

But, as a rule, such depressive experiences as loneliness, helplessness, sadness and other mental disorders, more common in female patients . In such states of depression in men, instead of the qualified help of a specialist, they prefer to drown out their sorrows and hardships with the help of alcoholic beverages or other substances that can temporarily improve mood and give imaginary self-confidence.

3. Masked depression

The stage of such depression, which proceeds imperceptibly to other people, is called masked, or hidden depression . Its experts consider it not as an independent disorder of the human nervous system, but as a result alcoholism or acceptance of other psychotropic substances uplifting. In such a situation, men are practically don't ask for help .

Depressive disorder can manifest itself in a wide variety of forms. In certain situations, states of depression in people differ in their degree of severity. For some, this state is clearly visible to others, while another category of people hides their psychological state from strangers.

Easy, depression is in that situation, if, against the background of certain symptoms, a person has a breakdown and mood, he finds the strength to do daily work and his usual activities.

Moderate, depression is when the combination of symptoms of a mental disorder does not allow you to properly perform daily work.

severe depression, this is when a person has all the signs of a disorder of the nervous system and they are noticeable to others, as well as all these symptoms, completely do not allow a person to do daily activities and work.

4. Clinical depression

Clinical depression is also called big, or monopolar depression. This form of disorder of the human nervous system is most common today.

Entitled " Clinical”, implies the presence of a single extreme position in the range of emotions. It is characterized with only one kind of patient mood, such as sad or depressed.

In most cases, this mood does not go away during the day, and also causes insomnia, loss of appetite, heartache and pain, lack of joyful emotions, inability to focus on anything.

In this condition, patients usually, consider themselves useless, and consider their position in society or at work as absolutely meaningless and useless. These people have very low self-esteem.

The points of view of specialists, according to the occurrence of a state of depression in people, were divided.

Some doctors think that the disease is directly related to abnormal processes in the human brain. In most patients, the tendency to this disease is hereditary.

Other reasons include the following factors: stressful situations, postpartum period in women, death of relatives, feelings of guilt and helplessness, various stressful situations.

Doctors distinguish 4 main groups of symptoms of depression:

• Mood disorders. People have unreasonable obsessive thoughts about their guilt in something, there is a feeling of loneliness and despair, they are constantly in a state of longing.
• Changeable behavior. A person completely withdraws from communication with others, it is difficult for him to concentrate his thoughts, his mind is vague.
• Manifestations of a physical nature. Change in body weight, violation or complete lack of sleep, systematic pain in the head.
• Complex mental disorders. The simultaneous presence of several of the above symptoms of depression.

The patient himself is not able to adequately assess his own well-being, since the symptoms of a person’s mental disorder can manifest themselves in different ways, and can be expressed to a greater or lesser extent.

The state of depression completely affects the mental attitude of citizens, clear thinking is significantly worsened.

6. The main signs of depression 📋

Experts identify two main signs of depression.

These include: lack of interest in the joyful events of the world, a persistent feeling of melancholy and depression, and extreme stage of the disease, this is complete indifference to all the surrounding people and everything that happens in the world and the public. Constant feeling of sadness and depression, hopelessness and misunderstanding of the meaning of one's own life lead not just to sadness and tears, but to acute mental torment diseases.

When depressed, most people close in on themselves and unwilling to communicate with others. In the process of such a psychological illness, a person loses attraction to opposite sex, there are difficulties in achieving orgasm and erection.

Changes during depression physical state person. He differs from those around him with a slow gait, quiet speech, stoop, in medicine this condition is called psychomotor retardation patient.

But there are situations when people have an absolutely similar physical condition. They are distinguished by accelerated and restless movements, speech is loud and fast. This state is called - psychomotor agitation .

State of depression much affects people's feelings and their thinking. Usually, all thoughts of patients are directed to negative things in life. It is pronounced, it is difficult to concentrate on a certain issue, thinking is difficult, a person has problems with memory, absent-mindedness, confusion of thoughts.

In such a state, a person's feelings and thoughts do not reflect reality. The patient experiences anxiety, has low self-esteem, is surrounded by his own fear, guilt, and feels that no one needs him.

psychological feeling dissatisfaction with oneself and own life often intensified by all sorts of manifestations: the patient periodically has not only thoughts about suicide , but also his attempts, or developed plans to commit suicide.

Major depression comes in several forms.

Psychopathic depression, during which hallucinations and delusions appear in the patient, the number of suicides increases significantly and treatment is required under the supervision of specialists.

atypical depression when a mixed picture of the above symptoms is expressed.

postpartum depression observed in women after childbirth.

Dysthymia

Minor depression is called dysthymia. It's lingering mental disorder a person, which is accompanied by a lack of joyful events in life and emotions.

Dysthymia can last for several years. The accompanying gloomy mood of people in the process of such a disease often leads to the loss of work and family.

Previously, the treatment of dysthymia was carried out with the help of psychotherapy, and mainly psychoanalysis. There are other ways to get rid of this disease. These include: interpersonal, cognitive, behavioral therapy . Most experts argue that the best is a mixed treatment with the simultaneous use of drugs and psychotherapy.

Spring depression - seasonal affective disorder

A specific form of depression that occurs only at certain times of the year, such as autumn or spring.

Many citizens who suffer from this mental disorder may feel great throughout the year, but in one season or another they experience lethargy and depressed mood.

According to statistics, such a disorder often occurs in the fall and ends by the beginning of spring. But there are other categories of citizens suffering from depression in other periods of the year. As a rule, spring depression occurs in women, less common in men.

The symptoms of this disease are: fatigue, drowsiness, loss of appetite, decrease in working capacity, inability to focus your thoughts on a particular issue, increased irritability, sense of anxiety, unwillingness to communicate with other people.

Seasonal mental disorder passes, without any special therapy, with the onset of another season. People have a surge of strength and vitality.

Today's specialists can't answer definitively what exactly is causing this depression. Basically, they indicate a decrease in the level of the hormone of joy in people in certain period of the year. Typically, this mental disorder is hereditary.

Bipolar depression (mania)

During the period bipolar depression people have seen changeable mood . It can suddenly change from joyful emotions to sad feeling, or vice versa. On average, this category of patients has an absolutely normal mood, despite systematic changes in it during the depression phase.

During exacerbations, a person has symptoms similar to those major depression: excessive activity, emotional arousal and increased self-confidence. Usually, such changes in people's mood are absolutely not related to current life problems.

The course of this disease disrupts the usual activities of a person, and causes difficulties in performing daily work.

Development and onset of attacks of bipolar depression may be completely unexpected. People may experience all sorts of anxiety during the phase of an attack of mental disorder. It is difficult for them to focus on anything, there is a feeling of guilt and alienation from the world around them.

There is also an opposite phase of a mental disorder, as a result of which a person is different excellent well-being, elevated thinking abilities, feels energized and inexplicably elated.

As the mania increases, the patient's arousal increases, and his actions may become completely unforeseen. The feeling of immense joy can change into indignation and anxiety in an instant.

For people with such depression, various failures and life falls are unacceptable. They have excessive bouts of anger and excessive demands on the people around them.

The lack of a critical attitude to one's own state is distinctive feature mania.

In what situations is an overly joyful mood regarded as a sign of mania?

• The need for rest and sleep disappears.
• Instant change of mind.
• Feeling of greatness and inflated self-esteem.
• Obsession in communicating with others and increased talkativeness in general.
• The tendency to be distracted by extraneous elements that are not relevant.
• Hobbies for something that will lead to further complications.
• Increased activity and acceleration of movements in all spheres of life.

Only in the situation when the above symptoms are expressed quite clearly, and also interfere with the normal existence of a person and his presence in in public places, experts confidently put mania diagnosis and prescribe appropriate treatment.

AT severe cases, the inexplicable self-confidence of a patient diagnosed with mania, may gradually turn into delusions of grandeur. With such a psychological disorder, a person decides for himself that he has the opportunity to communicate with supernatural invisible objects and recognize their voices. Such behavior of patients is very dangerous for the surrounding people.

With mania, the speed of thinking of the brain increases significantly, physical activity patient, increased sexual desire.

Rarely, other forms of bipolar disorder occur. These include: accelerated circular disorder and sullen mania.

Symptoms of the course of such diseases are similar to the above causes of psychological disorder in people.

7. What causes depression in women 🙍‍♀️?

There are several types of depression that can develop in women.

These include:

1. Agitated depression. The disease is associated with self-preoccupation, loss of social status and self-criticism.
2. Pathological form of depression. It usually causes the death of relatives and close friends.
3. Alcoholic or drug. Occurs with excessive use of alcoholic beverages or psychotropic substances.
4. iatrogenic depression. It develops from the uncontrolled use of drugs, usually with a sedative or hypnotic effect, without a doctor's prescription.
5. Somatic. It is caused by diseases such as a brain tumor, hydrocephalus, sclerosis, epilepsy, thyroid disease and others.
6. Postpartum depression and depression in pregnant women.

All types of these mental disorders are accompanied by hormonal changes and other physiological processes in the body of women.

postpartum depression

Mental disorders in women are significantly affected overabundance active substances in the body that are responsible for the normal production of beneficial hormones that help maintain a person’s mood in the normal range.

Usually, depression in pregnant women or those who have given birth to a baby in the last six months, arise and end on their own, without any reason or medication.

But in the event that the signs of a mental disorder are sufficiently pronounced, immediate medical intervention is required and an appointment concomitant treatment. According to statistics, postpartum depression affects approximately 40% of women different age categories.

postpartum depression is a disorder of the nervous system that develops in women from 0 before 6 months after the birth of a child.

Periodic disorder of the nervous system that occurs in about 15% women of childbearing age is called premenstrual syndrome.

In the process of such a disease, women experience nervousness, disturbed sleep and appetite, broken and depressed mood. This period lasts no more than two weeks and ends with the onset of menstruation.

Depression. symptoms in women. How to get out - advice from doctors and psychologists

8. Signs of depression in women 🙅‍♀️

Very often the occurrence of a state of depression directly associated with hormonal disorders in the body . They affect the fertility of women of the appropriate age. In a woman's body, this period is divided into several stages.

These include: menstrual cycle , pregnancy and childbirth , menopause. Peculiar changes in the hormonal background in the body occur in each of these periods. These features female body disrupt certain functions of the nervous system and, consequently, affect mental state generally.

Patients with these disorders of the nervous system experience mood swings depending on one or another phase. menstrual cycle within 1-2 weeks.

Rarely leads to depression pregnancy, regardless of whether it is long-awaited or not.

But, oddly enough, abortion, only in exceptional cases can cause depression. Most Likely the appearance of depressive disorders in women, this is the time of the birth of the baby, it does not affect which child was born in a row.

Postpartum depression can be light form nervous breakdown, or a severe form of depression, which can occur even a few weeks or months before delivery.

The experts claim that suddenly such a depression cannot come, and this is related to the fact that woman and previously had mental problems but did not seek medical help.

The psyche of women in labor is also affected by a sharp decrease in hormone levels. This condition is explained by the stressful situation associated with childbirth, as well as the occurrence new difficulties and responsibilities in your life, which are added with the birth of the baby.

In particular, postpartum depression is directly related to unsuccessful childbirth, problems in the family, material trouble and other factors.

Not so dangerous for the onset of depression is menopause woman. Experts say that mental disorders during menopause are no different from depression, which can occur in any other life period.

The most susceptible to mental disorders are such categories of women who have previously experienced disorders of the nervous system.

Today, the occurrence of depression in young girls is quite common. (ages 14 to 29). The risk of all kinds of mental illness in the younger generation prone to depression 4 times higher.

The girls in young age during periods of nervous tension digestive disorders, they are prone to overeating, or, conversely, completely refuse to eat food. Such mental disorders often lead to other various diseases, and also significantly affect the physical development and health of the body.

Refusal to eat can lead to a serious illness called anorexia, which leads to a decrease in the resistance of a young organism and contributes to the emergence of no less dangerous diseases, such as tuberculosis or pneumonia, as well as other infectious diseases.

How to help a girl cope with depression?

The general condition of the patient needs to be given sufficient attention. Since the problems associated with digestive system, require long-term treatment by a psychiatrist.

First of all, it is carried out symptomatic therapy, contributing general strengthening organism. Nutritionists pick special meals for the patient, and doctors control her general well-being.

Treatment will be most successful if started in a timely manner.

Stressful situations in women

The impact on the body of a woman of various stressful situations causes high percent depression diseases.

Stressful situations include:

• caring for a small child,
• trouble and disappointment in personal life,
• lack of a life partner,
• loneliness.

Great amount divorced women suffer from depression.

Many women leave their loved ones, which can lead to reactive depression, which is major and requires long-term treatment.

Women with distinctive character most often subject to mental disorders due to their imbalance or excessive self-confidence.

Symptoms of Reactive Depression

• Self-criticism increased without any reason.
• Lack of interest in everyday life and surrounding society.
• Poor memory and difficulty in making independent decisions.
• Sleep disturbance and increased unreasonable irritability.
• The presence of periodic intrusive thoughts about suicide.
• Constant feeling of tiredness.
• Headaches and general physical exhaustion.
• Increased heart rate, pain in the heart area and pressure problems.

Depression in citizens male less common than in women. As it is considered to be men do not cry”, and it is this expression that they try to match in everyday life.

But such a statement does not save men from the occurrence of various mental illnesses, including various forms of depression.

The main symptoms of depression in men are: inability to control one's emotions, weakness, inability to independently overcome all sorts of life obstacles, problems in personal life.

According to experts, it is quite difficult for men to express their own emotions and feelings due to the usual shyness.

Usually, men do not discuss personal problems or difficulties in the workplace. They believe that they can independently overcome the possible obstacles that, one way or another, are present in their daily lives.

Among men, few people think about visiting a psychiatrist for the purpose of drug treatment of mental health problems. Men also practically do not turn to psychologists for the required consultation.

Male depression - signs and symptoms

9. Signs of depression in men 🤦‍♂️

Among the main signs of detecting depression in men are the following:

• The systematic use of alcoholic beverages or various drugs.
• Addiction to gambling.
• Aggressive and unstable behavior.

These signs are only capable of drowning out a serious illness for a while, which requires immediate treatment.

Get out of depression with alcohol for example no man can. In addition, the above signs of depression contribute to the deterioration of the psychological state and the difficult situation in society and the family. Do not be afraid of depression and related symptoms.

The best thing for a man would be a timely appeal to a specialist for help. Only a psychotherapist will help improve the quality of life and embark on the path to recovery.

The same stressful situation different men can cause the development of a complex form of depression, or manage a minor mental disorder.

The following life troubles can become the reasons for stress:

• Dismissal from a permanent place of work.
• Bad relationships with women.
• Difficulties in personal life and family.
• All kinds of psychological tragedies.
• An assignment to carry out a responsible and complex task.
• material difficulties.
• Lack of purpose in life.
• Changing of the living place.
• Retirement age.

In addition, many cases of the occurrence of a psychological disorder in men without any significant problems can be cited. visible reasons occurrence of depression.

It is important to note that in a situation where a person previously had difficulties with the emotional and mental state , then in consequence a minor stressful situation will be enough for the occurrence of a serious mental disorder and prolonged depression.

The factor of heredity is also important in the possibility of depression with little stress.

The experts claim that the tendency to such a state is passed down from generation to generation, and in such a family it is very difficult, and almost impossible, to avoid problems with mental disorders.

Children from such families require a special individual approach. Recommended limit them in possible ways from stressful situations, and if there is the slightest suspicion of possible deviations in mental development, you need to immediately seek psychological and medical care to specialists, in order to avoid serious complications and disastrous consequences.

10. Depression in men and women: what are the differences 📖?

From the above, it follows that men suffer from depression almost 2 times less, compared to women. This feature, first of all, is explained by the high dependence of the body of women on the hormonal background.

Lability of the nervous system of women is another reason for these statistics. Since the fair sex, emotional reactions are more pronounced. Often it is enough for a woman to say a rash word for the development of a severe form of depression in her.

The duration of depression in men is much shorter in time, compared with the course of female psychological disorder. Depression in women usually lasts from a few months and can last for years. Only with the right treatment can they get rid of this serious disease.

Despite the fact that depression in men is not so long, the disease can develop intensively and become more severe.

Statistically, suicide attempts men commit more often than women. Since, the weak half of the population needs enough serious reasons than the loss of one or another interest in life.

Women, even during depression, can go to work and do everyday household chores, while men are practically not capable of this during a period of mental illness.

How to get rid of depression on your own - advice from psychologists. Treatment for depression

11. How to get out of depression on your own - 10 tips from a psychologist to get rid of depression 💊

Proven advice from psychologists will help and suggest how to get out of depression on your own when there is no strength to do anything.

Tip number 1. Take responsibility.

Tip number 2. Watch interesting and inspiring series and movies.

Council number 3. Avoid solitude and loneliness. Communicate more often with people around you. Go to interesting events. Find a fun activity or hobby.

Council number 4. Allow yourself to accept help from other people.

Council number 5. Reach out to the spirit world.

Council number 6. Avoid alcohol and other drugs completely. They negatively affect the state of the psyche of people and worsen it with each use.

Council number 7. Adjust sleep. Only a long and healthy rest can restore the human nervous system.

Tip #8. Get some exercise.

Tip #9. Do something useful for the people around you selflessly - show love to them, and they will reciprocate.

Tip number 10. Use affirmations.

12. How to deal with depression 💉?

In modern medicine, any, even the most complex forms of human mental disorders can be cured. It should be noted that treatment will be most effective if it is started at the first signs of the disease.

Today it is difficult to avoid permanent stress at work or in personal life, but properly selected medication will help to cope with life's difficulties.

Only highly qualified specialists can help to avoid depression, this psychologists and psychiatrists.

One of the most common treatments for depression is psychotherapy. The doctor will help you learn how to communicate correctly, communicate with people around you, change the negative style of thinking and behavior to a positive attitude towards life.

The specialist will help to normalize the emotional comfort of a person and advise how to avoid the recurrence of a mental disorder. In cases of severe disease, apply electroshock therapy for patients. It is prescribed in situations where the patient for some reason does not take or cannot take the necessary medicines, or in cases where the patient's condition poses a threat to his life or the life and health of the people around him.

The main medical treatment is application antidepressants . Select, advise and appoint who may only professional doctor.

self-medicate Not recommended and even strictly prohibited. Only a specialist can choose the right drug therapy, which is safe for the patient's health and most effective in a particular case of a person's mental disorder.

During postpartum depression, as a rule, a woman feeds breast milk your baby. In this situation selection of drugs should be especially careful so that in the process of treating the mother not to harm her small child.

Improvement in the condition of patients is manifested in the first weeks of taking the drugs prescribed by the doctor.

But, it must be borne in mind that in order to achieve a good result of treatment, and its stability, as well as to avoid recurrent mental disorders, use medicines required for at least six months, and in some cases even several years.

13. How to get rid of depression on your own 📌?

In addition to drug treatment of depression, today it is widely used and is quite effective. aromatic therapy. This is a great way to get rid of some types of mental disorders without the use of drugs.

This type of treatment of the disease will be an ideal option for women suffering postpartum depression because not all medicines can be used by them.

Aroma oils penetrate through the pores into the human body and contribute to general improvement in well-being. With the help of such means, you can cheer up your mood, since the aroma of oils has a positive effect on the human brain.

There are several ways to use aromatic oil. You can simply breathe them indoors, add a few drops while taking a bath, use essential oil during a massage.

To get rid of mental disorders there is a huge variety aromatic oils. The most effective are: Melissa oil, rosemary, lavender, orange and many others.

14. Treatment of depression: 2 main ways 💡

Depression is a serious medical condition and patients need comprehensive treatment.

If stressful situations gradually disappear on their own, then the diseases caused by them will never go unnoticed if effective, properly selected complex treatment is not started in time.

To date, distinguish two main treatments for depression, this is self-treatment, or with the help of doctors.

You can cure yourself only the initial forms of the disease, which have minor symptoms and last for a short period of time.

Treatment by specialists is the most preferred and effective option. Since it is almost impossible (or very difficult) to get out of depression on your own, when there is no strength to do anything.

doctors, usually, are not supporters self-treatment diseases, especially when it comes to complex mental disorders in humans.

Let's take a closer look at the most modern, safe and effective methods of treatment of various mental disorders.

It should be noted that, first of all, successful therapy depends on the established emotional contact between the patient and the psychotherapist. Only with a trusting and benevolent relationship, the result of the applied therapy will not be long in coming, and it will also be stable and more pronounced.

The main directions of treatment:

• Hypnotherapy.
• Social therapy.
• classical psychotherapy.
• Treatment with medicines.
• Electroconvulsive therapy.

Today, experts are trying to use aggressive treatments for depression, namely, electroconvulsive, or drug therapy , exclusively in serious health problems, when the mental disorder is complex and lasts for a long time.

The main drugs for the treatment of psychological disorders are sedatives and various antidepressants. For each patient, medical treatment is selected individually by doctors.

To achieve the best result of treatment and its long-term effect great importance has the desire of the patient himself to get rid of depression forever.

In the process of rehabilitation, patients must strictly follow all the recommendations of doctors, as well as monitor their own behavior and try to establish friendly and trusting relationships with people around them.

What can be done to prevent depression?

In order to prevent all sorts of psychological disorders in yourself, it is recommended to monitor the occurrence of initial signs of depression and try to get rid of them in a timely and effective manner.

If you think you've become irritable and hot-tempered, notice changes in mood, lose emotional attraction to daily activities, have problems with sleep, then you need to urgently think about a good rest, or a change of job and other changes in your life.

Healthy and prolonged sleep is one of the most important conditions for getting rid of stress and improving your psychological and emotional well-being.

Correctly composed daily routine, also plays an important role in getting rid of the initial signs of depression.

15. Conclusion

In conclusion, the following should be noted:

depression is heavy human mental illness. Its treatment must be taken with great responsibility. Can't be silenced all kinds of symptoms diseases with the help of alcoholic beverages and various drugs.

If you find any signs of a psychological disorder, you must urgently take action. Best Solution in such a situation, it seeking qualified help from specialists.

Do not confuse this serious illness with the usual mood swings or seasonal blues (for example, spring depression). depression is different physiological signs that occur in the human body. It never passes without a trace, but only gets worse every day, and gradually from mild form goes into a difficult stage.

Now you know how to get out of depression, what it is, how best to get rid of it, what are the symptoms and signs of depression in a person, etc.

Never do not start the course of such a disease, and do not wait for it to pass on its own. Seek advice from a psychotherapist, and he will definitely help you!

According to the forecasts of the World Health Organization, by 2020 depression will become the most common disease in the world. Many call it an epidemic of the XXI century, although even Hippocrates described a condition called "melancholy".

To treat this ailment in his time, tincture of opium was prescribed, cleansing enemas, prolonged warm baths and drinking mineral water, as well as primitive psychological support: the patient was recommended to "encourage" and "cheer". 26 centuries have passed since the time of Hippocrates, but the word "depression" in the minds of many Russians is still mythological in nature and is associated with laziness and an overabundance of resources.

What exactly is depression, why does it occur and how to deal with it? These and other questions are answered by Dr. medical sciences Vasily Glebovich Kaleda, psychiatrist, deputy chief physician Science Center mental health Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor of PSTGU.

- Vasily Glebovich, what are the signs of depression and how to recognize it?

(from the Latin deprimo, which means "oppression", "suppression") is a painful condition that is characterized by three main features, the so-called depressive triad. Firstly, this is a sad, sad, melancholy mood (the so-called thymic component of depression), secondly, motor, or motor, lethargy, and finally, ideational lethargy, that is, a slowdown in the pace of thinking and speech.

When we talk about depression, the first thing we think of is a bad mood. But this is not enough! The most important symptom of the disease is the person becomes powerless. Outwardly, his movements are smooth, slow, inhibited, while mental activity is also disturbed. Patients often complain about the loss of the meaning of life, a feeling of some kind of stupefaction, internal slowdown, it becomes difficult for them to formulate thoughts, there is a feeling that the head is empty at all.

Characterized by a decrease in self-esteem, the emergence of a conviction that a person is a complete loser in life, that no one needs him, is a burden to his loved ones. At the same time, patients have sleep disturbance, difficulty falling asleep, often there are early awakenings or the inability to get up in the morning, reduced appetite, and a weakening of sexual desire.

The clinical manifestations of depression are very diverse, so there are quite a lot of its varieties, which outwardly can be very different from each other. But one of the main characteristics of depression is its severity: it is relatively mild - subdepression, depression of moderate severity and severe depression.

If, with a mild degree of the disease, a person retains his ability to work and this mood does not greatly affect his daily life and the sphere of communication, then moderate depression already leads to a breakdown and affects the ability to communicate. With severe depression, a person practically loses both working capacity and social activity. With this form of depression, a person often has suicidal thoughts - both in a passive form, and in the form of suicidal intentions and even suicidal readiness. Patients suffering from this form of depression often attempt suicide.

According to a WHO study, about 90% of all suicides on the planet are committed by patients with various mental disorders, of which about 60% suffered from depression.

With severe depression, a person suffers unbearable mental suffering; in fact, the soul itself suffers, the perception narrows real world, it is difficult - or even impossible for a person - to communicate with his relatives and friends, in this state he may not hear the words of the priest that are addressed to him, often loses the life values ​​​​that he had before. They already, as a rule, lose their ability to work, because the suffering is very severe.

If we talk about people of faith, then they make suicidal attempts much less often, because they have a life-affirming worldview, there is a sense of responsibility before God for their lives. But it happens that even believing people are not able to endure this suffering and do something irreparable.

From sadness to depression

How to understand when a person is already depressed, and when “just sad”? Especially when it comes to close people, whose condition is objectively extremely difficult to assess?

Speaking of depression, we mean a specific disease that has a number of formalized criteria, and one of the most important is its duration. We can talk about depression when this condition lasts for at least two weeks.

Each person is characterized by a state of sadness, sadness, despondency - these are normal manifestations of human emotions. If some unpleasant, psycho-traumatic event occurs, then normally there is also emotional reaction on him. But if a person has a misfortune, but he is not upset - this is just a pathology.

However, if a person has a reaction to a traumatic event, then normally it should be adequate to the level of the event. Often in our practice we are faced with the fact that a person has a traumatic situation, but his reaction to this situation is inadequate. For example, being fired from a job is unpleasant, but reacting to it with suicide is not normal. In such cases, we are talking about psychogenic-provoked depression, and this condition needs medical, medication and psychotherapeutic support.

In any case, when a person has this long-term condition with a sad, sad, depressed mood, loss of strength, problems in understanding, loss of the meaning of life, lack of prospects in it - these are the symptoms when you need to see a doctor.

Depression for no reason

It is important to understand that in addition to reactive depression, which occurs as a reaction to some kind of traumatic situation, there are also so-called endogenous depressions, the causes of which are purely biological, associated with certain metabolic disorders. I had to treat people who are no longer there, and who can be called ascetics of the 20th century. And they also had depression!

Some of them had endogenous depressions that arose without any visible, understandable reason. This depression was characterized by some kind of sad, sad, depressed mood, loss of strength. And this condition went very well with drug therapy.

- That is, believers are also not immune from depression?

Unfortunately no. They are not immune from both endogenous depression and psychogenic-provoked depression. It must be borne in mind that each person has his own special level of stress resistance, depending on his character, personality traits and, of course, worldview. One of the greatest psychiatrists of the 20th century, Viktor Frankl, said: “Religion gives a person a spiritual anchor of salvation with a sense of self-confidence that he cannot find anywhere else.”

"Christian" depression

When we talk about people who believe, in addition to the above symptoms associated with mood and lethargy, there is a feeling of God-forsakenness. Such people will say that it is difficult for them to concentrate on prayer, they have lost their sense of grace, they feel on the verge of spiritual death, that they have a cold heart, a petrified insensibility. They can even talk about some special sinfulness and loss of faith. And that feeling of repentance, the degree of their repentance for their sinfulness will not correspond to the real spiritual life, that is, the real misconduct that such people have.

Repentance, the sacraments of Confession and Communion - these are the things that strengthen a person, instill new strength, new hopes. A depressed person comes to a priest, repents of his sins, takes communion, but he does not experience this joy of starting a new life, the joy of meeting the Lord. And for believers, this is one of the main criteria for the presence of a depressive disorder.

They are not lazy

Another important complaint of a person suffering from depression is that he does not want to do anything. This is the so-called apathy, the loss of desire to do something, the loss of the meaning to do something. At the same time, people often complain about the lack of strength, fatigue- both in physical and mental work. And often people around perceive it as if a person is lazy. They tell him: "Pull yourself together, force yourself to do something."

When such symptoms appear in adolescence, the relatives surrounding them, harsh fathers sometimes try to influence them physically and force them to do something, not realizing that the child, the young man, is simply in a painful state.

Here it is worth emphasizing one important point: when we talk about depression, we are talking about the fact that this is a painful condition that arose at a certain moment and caused certain changes in a person’s behavior. We all have personality traits, and they tend to accompany us throughout our lives.

It is clear that with age a person changes, some character traits change. But here is the situation: before, everything was fine with a person, he was cheerful and sociable, was active, studied successfully, and suddenly something happened to him, something happened, and now he looks somehow sad, sad and sad, and there seems to be no reason for sadness - here there is a reason to suspect depression.

Not so long ago, the peak of depression was between 30 and 40 years old, but today depression has dramatically “younger”, and people under 25 often get sick with it.

Among the varieties of depression, the so-called depression with "youthful asthenic failure" is distinguished, when it is the manifestations of the decline of intellectual, mental strength that come to the fore, when a person loses the ability to think.

This is especially noticeable among students, especially when a person successfully studies at an institute, has completed one course, a second, a third, and then there comes a moment when he looks at a book and cannot understand anything. He reads the material, but he cannot master it. He tries to read it again, but again he cannot understand anything. Then, at some stage, he drops all his textbooks and starts walking.

Relatives can't figure out what's going on. They try to influence him in some way, and this condition is painful. At the same time, there are interesting cases, for example, “depression without depression”, when the mood is normal, but at the same time the person is motorally inhibited, he cannot do anything, he has no physical strength, no desire to do anything, his intellectual abilities disappeared somewhere.

Is fasting depression a reality?

If one of the signs of depression is the loss of the physical ability to work, to think, then how safe is it for mental workers to fast? Can a man, working for a responsible leadership position, feel good eating porridge or carrots? Or, for example, a woman accountant who has just the reporting period during Lent, and no one has canceled household duties? To what extent can such situations cause stress, lead an organism weakened after winter to depression?

First, the time of fasting is not the time of hunger strike. Be that as it may, lean foods contain enough necessary for the body substances. One can cite as an example a large number of people who strictly observed the fast and at the same time fulfilled the serious duties assigned to them.

I remember Metropolitan John of Yaroslavl and Rostov (Wendland), who, of course, led an entire diocese, a metropolis, who had a unique dish during Lent - semolina porridge on potato broth. Not everyone who tried this lean food was ready to eat it.

My dad, (Kaleda - ed.), always, as far as I remember, strictly fasted, and combined fasting with serious scientific and administrative work, and at one time he had to drive one and a half to two hours one way to his place of work. There was quite a serious physical load, but he coped with it.

It has become much easier to fast now than it was 30 years ago. Now you can go to any supermarket, and there will be a huge selection of dishes marked “Lenten product”. AT recent times seafood appeared that we did not know before, a large number of frozen and fresh vegetables. Previously, in childhood, relatively speaking, we only knew at the time sauerkraut, pickles, potatoes. That is, the current variety of products was not.

I repeat: fasting is not a time of starvation and not a time when a person simply follows a certain diet. If fasting is perceived only as observing a certain diet, then this is not fasting, but only unloading diet, which, however, can also be quite useful.

Fasting has other purposes - spiritual ones. And probably, here each person, together with his confessor, must determine the measure of fasting that he can really endure. People may be spiritually weak or, due to various reasons and circumstances, begin to fast very strictly, and by the end of the fast, all their physical and psychic powers but instead of joy Christ's Resurrection- fatigue and irritability. Probably, in such cases it is better to discuss this with the confessor and, perhaps, get a blessing for some weakening of the fast.

If we talk about us, about people who work, then in any case, lean food differs from ordinary food in that it is more “labor-intensive”. In particular, with regard to cooking - it needs to be cooked longer and more in quantity. Not every person at work has a buffet where lean food is offered, or at least close to lean. In this case, a person must somehow understand what fast he can endure and what his personal fast will consist of.

My dad once gave an example - his spiritual daughter came to him (it was the beginning of the nineties or the end of the eighties). She lived with unbelieving parents, and it was very difficult for her to fast at home, causing constant conflicts with her parents, tension in the family situation.

It is clear that because of these conflicts, a person approached the bright holiday of Easter not at all in a festive mood. And dad told her as an obedience to eat absolutely everything that her parents prepare at home. Just can't watch TV. As a result, after Easter, she said that it was the hardest post in her life.

Probably, those people who, due to some circumstances, find it difficult to fully observe the fast in relation to food - and all of us - need to set some individual goals during the fast. Everyone knows their weaknesses and can impose some feasible restrictions on themselves. This will be a real fast, which has primarily spiritual goals, and not just abstaining from food, a diet.

You and I must always remember that Orthodoxy is the joyful fullness of life in Christ. A person by nature consists of three parts: spirit, soul and body, and we must strive to ensure that our life is full and harmonious, but at the same time the spirit must dominate. Only when spiritual life dominates in a person is he truly mentally healthy.

Interviewed by Lika Sideleva

Recognizing the signs of depression can help save your loved one. This mental disorder is very dangerous.

Today I want to teach you how to identify the symptoms of a real epidemic of the twentieth century, from which every second adult inhabitant of our planet has suffered or is suffering to a greater or lesser extent.

Signs of depression you need to see in order to be able to save a person close to you in time, because this mental disorder is very, very dangerous.

Where does depression and its symptoms come from?

Many people mistakenly believe that depression is a modern disease, which appeared either because of the difficult life of today, or because people with fat are mad.

Like, in our time this was not the case.

I hasten to upset you: it was.

Depression, as a mental illness, has been known since antiquity, it just used to be called “melancholy”.

Before talking about signs of depression, it is worth dwelling on the causes that cause such a dangerous disease.

Very rarely, but it happens that depression arises just like that from a violation of the metabolism of neurotransmitters.

That's all in a person's life safely, he did not experience any special cataclysms, but a mental disorder took and appeared out of the blue.

For the most part, depression is caused by quite simple and understandable reasons:

• peer pressure;
• the inability to achieve the desired for a long period;
• failures in personal life or career;
• disease;
• loneliness and so on.

If you understand that a black streak has come in your life, then try to mobilize all your strength so as not to become a victim of depression.

Relax, focus, even on small, but still joys, fight difficulties, and do not give in to them.

Why is it dangerous to ignore the signs of depression?

Depression is indeed a common disease, and given that stress or bad mood are often mistaken for this disease, the picture emerges very, very bleak.

Usually, the reaction of friends and relatives of people suffering from depression is divided into three types:

• those who begin to run around the patient (often imaginary), like a mother hen;
• those who simply ignore it;
• those who get angry because of his bad mood and call in an aggressive tone to “shake yourself up”, “do not turn sour”, “do not fill your head with nonsense”, etc.

Not right and one, and the second, and the third. The first ones feed the manipulators and shape the weaklings. And the second and third often, with their egoism and indifference, bring a sick person to suicide.

Yes, you heard right, this is how many people suffering from manic depression end up.

Once, on one of the psychological forums, I read the story of unfortunate parents.

Their teenage daughter suffered from an unrequited first love.

They, instead of extending a helping hand to her, only yelled: “Better think about grades! There will be more such loves in your life!

Turns out it won't.

A child driven to manic depression committed suicide.

Parents who failed to save their daughter are trying to warn other moms and dads against mistakes.

15 main signs of depression

As you can see, depression is very dangerous.

And even more dangerous is that non-specialists cannot diagnose it, so often the condition of a loved one is attributed to a bad mood or temporary difficulties.

And even those suffering from depression themselves do not always understand that they are sick and require help.

According to psychologists, the 15 main signs of depression look like this:

1. Man complains about constant fatigue , to something that cannot restore strength either overnight or over the weekend.

You just talked about something and suddenly the person completely turns off, stops responding to comments, and then cannot remember what it was all about.

The desire to hide from people, voluntary imprisonment within four walls.

Especially, you need to be wary if a sociable, cheerful person who used to have many friends begins to behave this way.

2. Established bad habits: alcohol, cigarettes, drugs.

Concentration on negative life moments.

Even if something good happens, the depressed person perceives it without much enthusiasm, as an accident.

But he is ready to talk about troubles all the time.

Unwillingness to take care of their appearance.

Indifference to the condition of their clothes and shoes.

A person may stop washing, so an unpleasant smell will begin to accompany him.

Loss of the ability to experience any feelings: compassion, pain, joy, surprise, delight, etc.

My teacher told me that the mother of one of her patients diagnosed depression in her daughter (and she was absolutely right) when they witnessed the tragedy (the car ran over the dog), and the girl did not even react.

Watch also an informative video about what depression is

and how to diagnose it:

If you find yourself or a loved one signs of depression(I repeat, depression, not bad mood), then you should not try to fight them yourself.

This disease is not so easy to overcome without outside help.

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