Depression

Depression, a word that is being misused daily by more and more people to describe their emotional state…’the weather seems so bad…i feel depressed..’

But what does it mean in clinical terms

Depression is mental disease; it is not an emotion such as sadness or feeling blues. Thus saying to someone who has actually depression ‘you have no reason feeling like that. You are just fine if you look around you!’, it just might sound so wrong and helpless. It is as if saying to somebody who suffers from asthma to breath well.

We might feel sorry about something in our lives that went wrong and we have various ways to express it. There is reason underneath and the duration of that state does not cause long-term dysfunction.

In depression, a chemical in the brain called serotonin is reduced, which might be due to genetically factors in combination with environmental factors having depression expressed. If the duration of the symptoms such as loss of appetite, sleeping problems, concentration deficit, social isolation, loss of interest in things that used to offer pleasure, lasts more than two weeks then we probably have to deal with depression.

There is proof that medication in combination with psychological therapy sessions usually has significant results after the third week. A video that follows describes what depression is like.