Depression Disorder
Uploaded by Jantay on Feb 29, 2016
Jantay
Shawn Arnston
English 101
02/20/2016
Depression Disorder
Depression is a state of mind and mood that affects significantly causing a feeling that goes far beyond sadness or feeling upset. Some of its results are reflected in the change of behavior, physical health, thoughts, mood, and feelings. Loss of the ability to feel pleasure in activities that were formerly enjoyable and the engaging in social relationships drops. People with depression face the loss of energy and the ability to be productive at school and work. While depression can lead to severe problems in the life of an individual, there is still hope for the affected person. A combination of self-care approaches, medications, and therapeutic interventions can be used to treat depression even the worst of cases.
Depression comes in three major disorders namely; major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder. Major depression occurs when there is a combination of symptoms that interfere with the individual's ability to sleep, work, study and eat. Major depression may only occur once although commonly several episodes may be experienced during the individual's lifetime. In cases of chronic major depression, treatment might be taken for the whole lifetime of the individual. Dysthymia is a less severe depression that involves long-lasting symptoms that are not very much disabling despite preventing the working usually of the affected. The other type of depression is the bipolar disorder which is characterized by cycling mood changes. It has also been stated that when in the high cycle, the affected person may be overactive, overtalkative and with lots of energy. This kind of depression has been said to have severe effects on the thinking capacity of an individual, judgment of an individual, and the social behavior in a way, which causes a lot of problems and embarrassments too. On this, it has for instance been found out that an individual found to be suffering from manic phase usually has a feeling of elation and grand schemes, which are often characterized by bad decision-making.
Signs and symptoms of depression vary by age, individual temperament and the length of the symptoms. Some symptoms cannot be easily attached to depression. Depression can have some symptoms classified as either being: physical, mood, behavioral or psychological symptoms. Physical symptoms occur when an individual is observed to; lack energy, increase or decrease his sleep hours, have somatic complaints, feel emotionally numb, increase or decrease their appetite, and feel irritable. Mood symptoms occur when...