Depression
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In the United States, close to 10% of adults struggle with
depression.
One major source of confusion is the difference between having
depression
and just feeling depressed.
Clinical
depression
is different.
Depression
can have a lot of different symptoms: a low mood, loss of interest in things you'd normally enjoy, changes in appetite, feeling worthless or excessively guilty, sleeping either too much or too little, poor concentration, restlessness or slowness, loss of energy, or recurrent thoughts of suicide.
If you have at least five of those symptoms, according to psychiatric guidelines, you qualify for a diagnosis of
depression.
Depression
has physical manifestations inside the brain.
On a more microscale,
depression
is associated with a few things: the abnormal transmission or depletion of certain neurotransmitters, especially serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, blunted circadian rhythms, or specific changes in the REM and slow-wave parts of your sleep cycle, and hormone abnormalities, such as high cortisol and deregulation of thyroid hormones.
But neuroscientists still don't have a complete picture of what causes
depression.
And because
depression
symptoms are intangible, it's hard to know who might look fine but is actually struggling.
So, if you know someone struggling with depression, encourage them, gently, to seek out some of these options.
To someone with depression, these first steps can seem insurmountable.
If they feel guilty or ashamed, point out that
depression
is a medical condition, just like asthma or diabetes.
If you haven't experienced
depression
yourself, avoid comparing it to times you've felt down.
Even just talking about
depression
openly can help.
And the more patients seek treatment, the more scientists will learn about depression, and the better the treatments will get.
Your physician says, "You know, I think you have some
depression.
School sport participation has also been shown to reduce the risk of suffering from
depression
for up to four years.
The damage can manifest in many different ways including blackout, headache, blurry vision, balance problems, altered mood and behavior, problems with memory, thinking, and sleeping, and the onset of anxiety and
depression.
It's very powerful for depression, schizophrenia, many, many things.
The best improvements for these patients have been improvements in reduction in stress, anxiety disorders and
depression.
Those iconic images of the astronauts bouncing on the Moon obscure the alcoholism and
depression
on Earth.
If you live in modern society, you're up to eight times more likely to suffer from
depression
in your lifetime than if you live in a poor, agrarian society.
Modern society has probably produced the highest rates of suicide and
depression
and anxiety and loneliness and child abuse ever in human history.
And the highest rates of
depression
were urban women in North America.
That alienation and
depression
can lead to suicide.
Numerous medications, including those for asthma, high blood pressure, birth control, and
depression
can also have unintended effects on the LES.
We found that those patients who have the highest per capita expenditures had the highest suffering, pain,
depression.
The group with palliative care reported less pain, less
depression.
And yet, this began for me months of pain and
depression
and anger and confusion and silence.
They're falling into illness and
depression.
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