 |
|
| Category: Health Care |
Date published: May 2, 2006 |
Depression is a mental health problem that involves your whole body, mood and thoughts. It is a condition that interferes how you eat and sleep, think and feel about yourself and other things; it affects your social behavior and also disrupts your sense of physical well-being. Once identified, depression can be treated well.
We often come across with a blue mood but it is not a depressive disorder. It happens due to stress, over-work condition, and such problem will go away in no time as soon as the problems are solved. But, if such feelings linger for longer period and affect our day-to-day life, then it can be considered as depressive disorder.
In most cases, people are unable to recognize depression and bother less to treat it because the symptoms of depression almost match the physical illnesses like sleep and appetite disturbances. It is necessary to recognize the symptoms of depression first and take medical assistance to treat it.
Depression not only causes pain to the victim but it equally affects the life of the people who love and care about them. It should be treated in time, or else it can ruin the family life as well as the life of the depressed person. Symptoms of depression are varied and its prevalence and severity varies from person to person. Some of the symptoms are listed below: Ø Feeling of hopelessness, pessimism Ø Loss of interest in activities that were once enjoyed Ø Persistent sadness, anxious Ø Lack of concentration on work and difficulty in decision making Ø Decreased energy, fatigue Ø Lack of appetite and weight loss or overeating and weight gain Ø Insomnia, early-morning awakening of oversleeping Ø Thoughts of suicide or suicide attempt Ø Persistent physical symptoms like headache, digestive disorder, chronic pain that do not respond to treatment. Depression can be cause by various factors. Some people may have family history of depression and that is inherited generation after generation, some may have family conflicts due to financial condition, serious loss or damage to the property, sudden change in lifestyle, and unsatisfying sexual relationship among couples. Apart from this, people are depressed due prolonged physical illnesses that lead to the feeling of irritability and people are unwilling to take adequate attention towards their illnesses and the feeling of sickness may lead them to major depression. For the treatment of Depression, clinically approved drug is lexapro. It is a member of the prescription drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and just a single dose of 10 mg a day of lexapro is effective for an adult as it causes fewer side effects and is tolerated well than other drugs in its class.
It is believed that the people with depression have an imbalance of the brain's neurotransmitters. These neurotransmitters are the chemicals in the brain that allow nerve cells to communicate. So, lexapro helps to restore the brain's chemical balance by increasing the supply of a chemical messenger in the brain called serotonin. Apart from medical treatment, love and support from the family member is important to overcome the depressive disorder. In addition, physical activities and regular exercise is another therapy as it increases endorphins and serotonin level in the brain that changes mood. for more informationas visit:http://www.prescriptionsfirst.com
|
[All work by author is copyright protected. If you would like to use this article, please contact the author for permission.]
Disclaimer: The Views and Information expressed on this webpage are that of the Author and do not necessarily reflect the views, data, policies, endorsement or support of HolisticJunction.com's Administration or its standards.
|
|
|
|
Articles
