Autumn. Days become shorter, there is little sun and sometimes we are sad. Let’s try to answer how we are sad. Try to relate following statements to yourself:
- I feel oppression, depression.
- Recently my appetite and weight have been changed.
- I feel anxiety and I have the heebie-jeebies.
- I cry a lot.
- I feel tired for no apparent reason.
- I do not get pleasure from my hobby.
- My thoughts are not as clear as before.
- My future seems joyless to me.
- I do not feel that my life is useful to other people.
- I believe that others would be better if I died.
If you have more than 5 statements, perhaps you’ve got a depression. The depression can become apparent in different ways. Different types vary from weak initiative, insignificant depression, tiredness and sleep disturbance, to oppressions, headaches, eating disorders, constipations, distemper and at last the apathy. Concrete depression’s displays are so different and individual that it is quite difficult to diagnose it correctly. The medicine distinguishes three types of depression:
- Depressions which caused by organic diseases, such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, hormonal disorders, injuries.
- Endogenous depressions. This form of depression occurs from the inside, as a consequence of mental person’s predisposition. « Endogenous» – defined by deep, internal processes (including biochemical). Such depression brings peculiar tortures, because the patient is not able not only to feel joy, love and interest, but also grief, anger and compassion. Accordingly, this depression should be especially recognized in time, as it is well stopped with a help of modern antidepressants.
- Psychogenic depression. It arises from the subjective intolerable feelings because of difficult mental disorders, at that, emotions are so strong that they must be restrain. For different people, with a different personality type, such mental disorder can be differ in strength, content or duration.
Common for everyone is change in yourself, a change in the perception of your past and future, as well as around the world, where everything is seen in the pessimistic tones.
In particular, older people are disposed to depression, suffering from loneliness after the death of a spouse, loss of coevals, changes in habits or restrictions.
Depression deprives a person of the future, or orientations for it. Psychological trauma deprives people of hope and strength to see tomorrow, when the prospects offered only disadvantage, the expected sufferings, pain and despair. Everyone has his own trauma – divorces, separations, difficulties at work, financial difficulties, the suffering of homeless dog. You better know it how it is happens with you. In cases of depression caused by the traumatic events the effectiveness of drugs is minimal. The psychotherapy is here especially medically necessary, directing to comprehension of unsuccessful strategies, seeking of resources, comprehension of the real problems and causes of depression. Depression shows that there is something that oppresses the person, and he should remove it.
The man under the pressure of depression is not self-satisfied, he does not trust himself, does not want to see the reality and he loses his intensity.
Depression can often be linked to the disease, traditionally called psychosomatic.
What is more important, that «mild» depressions are quite normal, if they come after high stresses, so they allow the body to have a rest. But if they are delayed, it is a sign trouble. It is unreasonable to persuade the patient to relax in the cheerful society, to go to remote countries or to argue that everything is not so bad and it will be over.
There is no sense to tell that you also have experienced such situations or to require a patient that he take himself in hand and do not sink.
There is also no point to ignore the possibility of suicide and signs of preparation for it.
It makes sense to show the patient that he is loved, that people are considerate towards him and want to help him. Be ready to mood swings. Help him carefully to be oneself, to explore the history of his life, and together with him find true causes of mental disorders.
It is perfect when such assistance is rendered by a qualified psychotherapist.
Paradoxically, that in some cases, if you want to recover, you should not struggle against the depression, on the contrary, to fall into it, because only in the depths of your being you can find something that has been depressing you for a long time. In the East, depression is sometimes considered as gift of gods, because it allows and even forced to think about the meaning of the life, to seek answers to the question «Who Am I», «Why» and to be updated and re-open the joys and sorrows of this world. And if you go through depression with a guide, will be absorbed in it, so this trip will allow you to understand and to analyze all bereavements and teach you to cope with them.
Tags: anxiety, apathy, appetite, chronic tiredness, distemper, heart-diseases, infarction, injuries, mental disorders, oppresion, psychosomatic, psychotherapy, suicidal