what is depression



So you are down, feeling empty, feeling totally hopeless and indifferent. you may be thinking that there is no way to get rid of these feelings that you are experiencing. You may have even forgot how was it like to feel good or to feel happy, if that’s your case, don’t lose hope now, there is still much that you can do. Just decide that you will help yourself out, just take the decision, and read further.

Depression is identified by medicine as "A disturbance in the production of brain chemicals". This disturbance could be caused by a combination of genetic tendency along with an external stimulus. The common types of depression are major depressive disorder(where the normal depression symptoms are experienced), bipolar disorder (where you experience a mood swing between being over excited and happy to being depressed), Post-partum depression(depression that follows a childbirth),Winter depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD (felt by some people at the season each year). Depression can also be the result of a Prolonged Physiological stress or major physical changes in the body (for example due to a disease).


* You constantly feel irritable, sad, or angry.
* Nothing seems fun anymore, and you just don’t see the point of trying.
* You feel bad about yourself—worthless, guilty, or just "wrong" in some way
* You sleep too much or not enough.
* You have frequent, unexplained headaches or other physical problems.
* Anything and everything makes you cry.
* You’ve gained or lost weight without consciously trying to.
* You just can’t concentrate. Your grades may be plummeting because of it.
* You feel helpless and hopeless .
* You’re thinking about death or suicide. (If this is true, talk to someone right away!)


Depression without a reason

Sometimes the depression comes from within, mainly due to genetic factors, this is what is called endogenous depression, endogenous depression seems to come from no where, you don’t have to have a life problem in order to develop endogenous depression, it just happens to develop, endogenous depression can be treated using medication that restores the chemical balance to the brain because chemical imbalance is the main cause for endogenous depression.



depression can result from suppressed emotions

Depression is sometimes referred to as suppressed emotions, that's why crying could help you feel better (getting out some of these emotions).
take the example of someone who gets angry when his friends bother him yet he takes no action, he just suppresses the anger emotions inside of him and so end up deppressed.



depression and genes

Modern medicine have proved that depression and genes are connected somehow, but that doesn't mean that you get depressed because of your genes, but the truth is that the tendency to get depressed as result of a past event is based on your genes, that means that two people could suffer the same problem but still, one gets depressed and the other doesn't.



depression and religion

the majority of people state that depression doesn't have any connection to religion, while others claim that depression and religion are firmly connected. they also claim that the percentage of religious people that suffer from depression is the least and that those who don't believe in anything are more likely to get depressed than those who believe in God.


How to get over depression

In this article I will discuss the methods that can be used for getting over depression naturally without the use of medication. Depression medication is of the strongest treatment options for Available for treating depression, however, in lots of cases other methods of treatment can help the person get over depression without the need of medication.

When people spend a long time feeling down they tend to forget how happiness feels like. It’s a part of the human nature, when we experience a certain bad emotion for a prolonged period we forget about all other good emotions and we tend to think that this emotion will last forever.

This is one of the biggest challenges for depressed people, convincing themselves to believe that this depression can end one day!! If you are currently depressed just remind yourself of all of the bad emotions that you have passed by before then ask yourself one question, did they come to an end?

Your previous feelings of anger, can you remember them? No, because they just went away after a certain period of time but at the time you were angry you never thought this way, you just thought that rage will last forever. Depression too is like all other emotions, it can come to and end if you committed to taking proper actions.

Why do you think people think of suicide while being depressed? Because they think that depression will never end. If they were told that within one month depression will disappear, they will never think of committing suicide again but instead they will keep checking the calendar every now and then waiting for this day they feel better.


Positive thinking techniques

When some people hear about positive thinking for the first time they think that positive thinking is the same as being overly optimistic. While optimism is a great thing, still its not a practical solution for solving problems. There is no magic in here, positive thinking is a tool that can help you solve your problems if you knew how use it. Just thinks of the things and all the people you love in your life, how life is so worthwhile... There are some failures in life but we have to use them as a challenge to do better...

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