Dealing with Depression

What is Depression?

So you are down, feeling empty, totally hopeless and indifferent. You may be thinking there is no way to get rid of these feelings you are experiencing. You may have even forgotten how it's like to feel good or happy. If this is the case with you, don’t lose hope now, there is still much that you can do. Just decide that you will help yourself; 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 a genetic tendency along and an external stimulus. The common types of depression are Major Depressive Disorder (where the normal depression symptoms are experienced), bipolar disorder (where you experience mood swings that vary between overly excited and happy to severe depression), Post-partum depression (depression that follows childbirth), and Winter Depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD (felt by some people with the various seasons 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).

Depression is sometimes a signal

Depression is sometimes the result of a direct response to an external influence that happened; you don’t just go to sleep feeling over the moon and wake up depressed without something having happened!! This kind of depression is then just ; a signal from your mind asking you to take action, asking you to check out the problems in your life and fix them.

Something must have already happened to make you feel so, some kind of new situation that has appeared, a problem that you can't seem to find a current solution for, a person who's deserted you, someone dear to you who's passed away, some goals that you haven't, something you did that you feel guilty for or it may be due to the lack of purpose in life -which is still considered an unsolved problem.

Depression caused by an external factor or an external life problem is called exogenous depression, the "exo" in the name refers to the external factor that has caused the depression; in this type of depression, solving or accepting the problem or the event is enough to remove the depression.

Depression without a Significant Reason

Sometimes the depression comes from within, mainly due to genetic factors; this 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, since 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 (The process of riding yourself of these emotions).
Take the example of someone who gets angry when his friends bothers him, yet takes no action; he just suppresses the anger emotions inside him and thus ends up being depressed.

Depression and Genes

Modern medicine has proved that depression and genes are somehow connected, but that doesn't mean that you get depressed because of your genes. The truth is that the tendency to get depressed as a result of past events is based on your genes; that means that two people could suffer the same problem but still, one would get depressed and the other wouldn’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. Some also claim that the percentage of religious people suffering from depression is very low and that those who don't believe in anything are more likely to get depressed than those who believe in God.

Depression Medication

Depression medications used by most for treatment are fine, they stimulate the human brain to restore its chemical balance, and when it does, the medication is stopped and you return back to normal. However, in cases where external influence is the cause of the imbalance, the depression comes back whenever the medication is stopped. The medication, in such cases, works just like the painkiller is with a broken arm; you won't feel the pain as long as you're taking the pills, you don't restore your arm's function and the pain is back the minute you stop taking the pills. So, it takes solving the problem to get rid of the depression.

Dealing with Depression

The severity of depression varies from mild to severe depression; in both cases, there are many things that can be done to make you at least feel better, if not even successful in riding you of your depression. Your only challenge will be committing to those activities, even when don’t feel like you have the energy required to keep doing them. If you manage to do so, you'll be amazed with the results you get.

On the other hand, as mentioned above, in case you're able to deal with the external influence or event that has happened, your depression will disappear at the same moment. Take the example of someone who's depressed because he can't get a job, the minute he does settle his dream job, his depression will fly out the window.

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