What is depression?
Depression is one of the terms that describe satisfactory or unsatisfactory conditions overcome by the almost permanent feeling of sadness, tightness in the chest, and the desire to cry. Many people suffer from depression and It affects females more than males. The percentage of people with depression are like the incidence of infection among women is 20%. In postnatal women, it is 10%. In men, it is 12%. About 5% to 10% of females and 3% of men suffer from the so-called major depression, which is one of the most common psychological diseases. Experiments and studies have shown that animals such as monkeys and mice become also infected.
What are the Symptoms of depression?
Many symptoms appear on a person who is depressed, A person with severe depression, including the almost continuous feeling of depressed, feeling tightness in the chest, as well as the feeling of permanent sadness and the desire to cry at any time, and the reluctance to talk to other people, and the sense of loneliness and isolation. Other signs of a depressed person are, they don’t enjoy daily activities such as daily routine work, or practice hobbies and entertainment activities. Depressed people have the symptoms of also weakness or loss of sexual desire for both sexes, female and male.
In addition to the symptoms that we mentioned, the emergence of other symptoms suffered by the patient of depression for at least two weeks:
1): Feeling too large and too guilty to be self-contempt and loss of confidence.
2): Lack of ability to think and focus in addition to the inability to make a decision.
3): The constant feeling of tiredness and tiredness that drives him not to work day activities.
4): Feeling insomnia and inability to sleep.
5): Feeling tense as well as slowness and psychological and motor irritability.
6): Chronic headaches, and chronic lower back pain
7): Irritable bowel syndrome,
8): Chest pain
9): ED in men or women.
10): Lack of desire to do anything
11): Loss of desire for pleasures of the world.
13): Introversion and isolation and negative thinking.
14): Pessimism and looking at things with a black telescope.
16): Guilt, self-blame.
17): Lack of physical and sexual activity.
18): Lack of sleep or tendency to sleep and rest.
19): Lack of appetite or excessive eating.
What are the causes of great Depression?
Genetic and biological factors:
This occurs when the individual lives with an inherited family that has depression due to lack of neurotransmitters at the center of the brain, which in turn is responsible for mood, emotions, thinking, and behavior.
Educational factors :
This factor is one of the most severe depressive factors because it indirectly transfers depression by watching children of their parents; they have certain methods and patterns such as pessimism, depression, mistrust, and allergies.
Conditions of life: “It is not possible to conduct life on a stable ship without the presence of disturbances of life” :Kovah Aziz. Depression due to conditions of life as like having marital and family problems, loss of employment, and the deterioration of health, financial problems, lack of marriage, retirement is planned, getting divorced etc.
Personal Disorders :
One of the most prone to depression, the heirs of obsessive personality known as hardness and inflexibility, hysterical characters overcome by emotions and mood swings.
Organic diseases :
Organic diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and the use of anti-stress and stomach ulcers medications and others drugs could make a person depressed and anxiety.
Genetics :
Depression is more likely to occur if there is a family history of the disease, and researchers are working on finding genes that may cause depression.
Hormones :
Hormone disorder may cause changes that may cause depression, especially in women during pregnancy. Postpartum is a condition during pregnancy period that a women could be depressed due to hormonal change. And that change is called Postpartum.
Brain chemistry :
Recent studies suggest that imbalances in neurotransmitters that play a role in mood may be a cause of depression. Mood swings are the main problem of this brain chemistry.
Biological causes :
Individuals with depression suffer from changes in the brain, as their study can help scientists identify and determine the causes of depression.
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