Hello friends of steemit I want to talk to you about this topic and I hope that if someone is going through a moment like this, this topic will be of help.
I want to talk about a subject that I have meditated a lot and lately I have seen many cases like this, about depression, despair.
Before talking about it, I want to first place the definition of depression, its causes and what causes those causes
The Depression
It is a severe clinical disease. It's more than feeling "sad" for a few days. If you are one of the more than 19 million young people and adults in the US. UU who has depression, those feelings do not go away. They persist and interfere with their daily life. Symptoms may include:
Feeling sad or "empty"
Loss of interest in your favorite activities
Increase or loss of appetite
Not being able to sleep or sleep too much
Feeling very tired
Feeling hopeless, irritable, anxious or guilty
Headaches, cramps or digestive problems
Ideas of death or suicide
Depression is a disorder of the brain. There are many causes, including genetic, biological, environmental and psychological factors. Depression can start at any age, but usually begins in youth or young adults. It is much more common in women. Women can also have postpartum depression after giving birth. Some people have a seasonal affective disorder in the winter. Depression is a part of bipolar disorder.
https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/depression.html
Causes of depression
Genetic factors
The presence of a history of depression in the immediate family (parents and siblings) increases the probability of suffering depression by 25-30%. In several studies it has been determined that in monozygotic twins there is a 50% greater chance of one of the siblings suffering from depression in the case of precedents in the other. This percentage is reduced to 25% in the case of dizygotic twins.
Physiological factors
The onset and chronification of depression has been especially associated with a decrease in serotonin levels at the level of neuronal junctions. For this reason, in the treatment of depression is sometimes used a group of drugs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, whose function is precisely to modify the levels of serotonin that are altered in these patients. There is also a group of diseases closely linked to the onset of depression, most of them related to endocrine disorders:
Migraine.
Diabetes.
Hyperthyroidism.
Cushing's syndrome.
Adisson's disease
Hyperprolactinemic amenorrhea.
Personal factors
It has been seen that there is a significantly higher percentage of depression in women than in men. Age is also an influential factor, and the range between 35 and 45 years is the highest incidence of depressions. Pregnancy and postpartum are vital stages of the woman with a higher risk of depression due to the hormonal alterations suffered.
Environmental factors
Those factors that are negative for the subject (stress, anxiety, inability to channel problems ...) in any of their personal areas (work, family ...), especially if the subject are considered to be factors that enhance the appearance of this disorder. he is also in a situation of dependence or habitual consumption of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etcetera. A situation of little or no interpersonal relationships especially strengthens these factors.
(https://www.webconsultas.com/depresion/causas-de-la-depresion-290)
- DESPERATION **
Despair is called to the total loss of hope and also to anger, spite or anger.
Despair is not only the lack of hope, as one might believe, looking only at the etymological cortex of the voice, but positive reaction against the good, whose need on the one hand afflicts us and we judge by another impossible to achieve. For this Saint Thomas, by classifying the passions, whether as acts, or as psychological states, placed despair among the irascible ones (Summa Theologiae, I, II quaestiones 40 to 44) that look at the arduous good, in whose presence the appetite per accessum et per recessum, rushing towards him, while esteeming him at his reach, but feeling repelled and positively moving away from him, that he presents himself as impossible. The Angelic evokes the saying of Aristotle (III Ethicorum, c.3) quum ventum fuerit ad aliquod impossibile tum homines discedant; law of the spirit consistent with the state of violence in which it is found; he is harassed by the need for the good that despairs, he feels therefore irresistibly taken after him, perhaps in his prosecution he has put extreme means and resources to the test, silencing forebodings of his impossibility, since this one, with immovability incontrastable in the way of his growing anxieties What is more natural than to their collision, take the concentrated energies contrary, be used to flee from the good, tend to make it impossible, to annihilate it if they could, and if not, to annihilate the subject that went after it, so that to one impossibility, add another? From this it follows that by two direct paths the courage of this feeling can be tamed by reason:
a) putting in its place the need for good, trying to persuade the desperate that it is not such a good, that even if it is not necessary or that without it it could happen, that it will find others that will equal it, that this has been experienced by others , which gives rise to the experience even as a transitory test ...
b) doing the same on the impossibility of achieving it, that there is no such, that has not put into play effective means, that failed by circumstances that no longer exist, that are such and what resources, that the record will decide its effectiveness, etc. .
Indirect and remote means are going to avoid inconsideration and precipitation in determinations and to moderate in general the impetus and passion as soon as it is executed.
This feeling appears when the subject believes that he is no longer able to escape from an unwanted situation (for example, his death is near, he feels a great physical pain or the belief that his happiness will never come) and begins to make last attempts to escape of such situation, such as running, throwing objects, screaming, attacking others, etc.
Theology
Christian theology presents the despair attributed to the lack of hope. This lack of hope is linked to the lack of Christ in the cognitive knowledge of God. In Catholic theology, desperation is called sin or vice directly contrary to the theological virtue of hope; by him or by his actions, he rejects the will, deeming it impossible, the attainment of the last end and also all the means, ordered by God and placed within the reach of man to achieve it. Part of the belief that eternal happiness is unattainable, contrary to the divine precept of waiting for the attainment of bliss.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desesperaci%C3%B3n
Now having a clear definition of both, we see that depression is not only when we used to think or I at least used to think that a depressed person was a person who was sad about something that caused him pain, and then he went away and continued with your life and ready.
But it really is something more than that and if people start to get sad for some cause that causes pain, but if you follow that idea in your head and start to lock yourself in that thought, this will lead to other thoughts that torment you in a way, that He will begin to believe that he has no hope, that nothing is going to improve, he begins to have no encouragement to do things, he becomes discouraged and he can lose the persecution with reality and can feel that he has no way out of what he is living and he can take his own life, believing that it is the only solution of what he is living.
And it really is not like that, this is one of the consequences of depression, I think it is the worst consequences of all, because the person taking his life, there will be no more solution for it.
I think that these issues should not be treated to the lijera, if you feel like this realmnete not stay locked up or if someone close to you has something like that you should help him.
First seek the help of a professional, I think ignorance or ignorance of the seriousness of suffering from depression is what has made people close to you leave this world without more.
2 days ago someone near where I live took his life, that left me stunned without being able to believe it, the person showed no signs of depression, at least what we saw every day.
But that person months before was going through a process of depression due to a disease that caused him a headache, in his stomach, and altered his nerves, and decided that he no longer had a solution and that he could no longer live this way, he despaired and I'm without any hope.
There are people who shut themselves in who never show that they are depressed.
But if they were close to that person they would have sought professional help that would have helped them deal with those feelings and emotions, the story would be different.
It really is something traumatic, if you are depressed you look for help and you will see that everything has a solution, and if you see someone depressed help him, motivate him but do not leave him like that.
Another help is to take him to church and that people full of faith help him to see things that are happening with other perspective in a positive way and that they can move on and be able to get out of depression.
Your life and that of the person is a gift from God, which is lived with ups and downs, with good and bad moments, but you have to overcome and keep going, persevering and fighting but not surrendering sadness or despair before.
With this I do not say that you or anyone can not feel sad at some point, but not shutting yourself in that sadness, if you do not get ahead and see things in a positive way, not letting the thoughts of sadness or hopelessness continue to contaminate your life and Without noticing you lose them.
Remember if you see that you can not just find something with help, but do not lock yourself in. Your life is worth a lot and you are important to your family, friends.
value your life and that of others, is something that can not be bought with all the money in the world. so appreciate it.