Small depresses or depression?

The depression is a very widespread disease. It assigns indifferently people of all the ages, all the mediums and all the lifestyles. Whereas a man on ten and one woman out of five are reached by it during their life, that does one know really depression? How to distinguish the simple blow from cockroach of a major depression? Which are the symptoms?

Small depresses or depression? Isabelle finds only very with difficulty the sleep and frequently awakes in middle of the night. She lost any interest for the writing of her last novel and feels guilty not to be able to devote more time to her children. She does not want any to cook and eats without appetite. She has so much evil to concentrate that even its preferred television game discourages it, just like the advances of her husband whom she forsakes. Its state has afflicted it, it is more and more often the prey of black thoughts for more than two weeks. She judges herself without value, in turn irritable or amorphous, whereas she was so energetic.

Is Isabelle depressive or simply victim of a blow of cockroach?

The word “depression” standardized and indicates too often momentary states. When these symptoms persist during weeks or months and prevent a return to a “normal” life, they can be the first steps of a real depression.

On the contrary, the depression is a state which continues in time and which it is advisable not to neglect.

This fall of psychic tonicity is characterized by:

* A deep sadness and a loss of taste for formerly appreciated activities (hobbies, sex, etc): it is this principal symptom which can make it possible your doctor to diagnose. Certain patients can become tended or irritable. This excessive nervousness and this feeling of uselessness are accompanied by black thoughts which can go until suicidal impulses;
* Changes of appetite or weight, a deterioration of the sleep: the depression can affect the body in addition to the spirit. Thus, certain people will be able to suffer from a lack of appetite whereas others compensate by taking weight. Same manner, certain people will have evil to fall asleep to awake in the middle of the night whereas others tend to sleep in an excessive way;
* Moods changeantes: in addition to the depressed state, the person can be the object of other emotional changes: an unjustified feeling of culpability, a lack of confidence in oneself and of incapacity. Certain people will flee the situations requiring of their share a catch of responsibility, of fear badly of making;
* A difficulty of concentrating: these symptoms prevent the people efficiently studied and from working. In extreme cases, alleviating tasks become insurmountable.

There are no characteristic symptoms, certain people can appear sad in an obvious way, others will rather feel an impression of tiredness or insomnia. Sometimes, the close entourage has great difficulty to have a presentiment of the importance of this disease and suspects light more easily depresses than a little will and some fine wordss will make it possible to surmount.
Depression, a true disease

The depression is defined like a feeling of sadness persisting, a loss of taste for the majority of the activities during one two weeks minimum duration. You should not feel fears or embarrassment to expose your state to your doctor. Only a knowledge of all the symptoms will enable him to carry out a precise diagnosis.

For the doctor, the depression term has a quite precise definition and, vis-a-vis such a disease, it will be able to prescribe you an adequate treatment: psychotherapeutic follow-up and/or drugs fighting against the depression.

Major depressions can last from 6 to 12 months. More than 85 to 90% of the people suffering from depression can be treated efficiently. In the majority of the cases, the exit of the treatment is a complete remission with disappearance of the symptoms. A quarter with a third of the people will be able however to continue to suffer from various symptoms, suitable for undermine their daily life.