Dealing with Depression

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).

depression is somtimes a signal

depression is somtimes the result of a direct response to an external influence that happened,After all you can't just go to sleep happy and then wake up in the morning to find yourself depressed without some event happening.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 to fix them.

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

Depression that is 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 caused the depression, in that type of depression solving or accepting the problem or the event is enough to remove the depression.

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.

depression medication

Depression medications used by most of the people for treatment are fine, they stimulate the human brain to restore its chemical balance, and when it restores it, the medication is stopped and you return back to normal. However, in case that there was an external influence causing the imbalance, your depression will get back to you as soon as you stop the medicine. The medicine in that case will be like a painkiller for a broken hand, you won't feel the pain as long as you take the pain killer, but still if you don't restore your hand like it was, it will hurt you as soon as you stop taking the pain killer. so in that case solving the problem could remove the depression.

dealing with depression

Depression severity varies in degrees from mild to severe depression; in both cases there are many actions that you can take that could at least make you feel better if they weren’t successful to help you get over your depression. Your only challenge is to commit to those activities although that you don’t feel that you have the required energy to do them, if you managed to successfully do them you will see positive results.

On the other hand as mentioned above, in case you were able to deal with the external influence or event that happened your depression will disappear at the same moment, take of an example of someone who got depressed because he couldent find a job, at the moment he finds his dream job his depression will totally disappear.

Did that help ?

How to get over depression

yes, i am depressed , what to do now?

well i am still not quite sure if i am depressed,What are depression’s symptoms?

does feeling depressed mean that i am weak?

why help myself? i dont deserve to be happy

hmmm,yes but what else did people who believe that religion and depression are conencted said ??

hmmm somehow,but i feel depressed just when i get up from sleep , any reason for that?

no no, am good, but i just feel Bad when the sun starts to set ,why so?

yes but i feel like lacking motivation and i cant complete my work,what to do?

fortunately i am not depressed,i just want to know how to deal with a depressed person

Fortunately i am not depressed, tell me how to prevent myself from getting depressed?