Many people are concerned by an eternal question what is a depression. Such term is applied to the description of the majority of states in which there can be a person.
Very often the depression is attributed to people who transferred the nervous shock caused by the fact that the person was disappointed or it was rejected. Such state is familiar practically to everyone is a normal reaction to a stress. Everyone worries about the family, career, acquaintances. When you face loss of the native person, marriage comes to an end with a divorce, hopes fall in ashes, experiences are natural. The grief is the human emotion capable to transfer reaction of the person to losses and disappointments.
It is possible to explain shortly that the depression represents. This oppressed, mental state which is followed by decrease in mood and ability to feel joy.
Types of a depression
Often in developing of a depression several problems are the reason. In particular it belongs to hereditary predisposition and stressful provocation of a disease.
Quite often the depression arises because of stressful events: sad (death close, job loss) and joyful (wedding, final, moving). Chronic overfatigue can become the reason also.
Reactive depression
Such depression arises in connection with situations which the person did not manage to overcome or was not prepared for them. The long stress is the main cause of reactive depression. Often heavy events which cause depressive reaction are the cause of a mental trauma.
The masked depression
Sometimes occurs so that the depression is shown not by just bad mood, but bad health which usually happens at physical diseases. Certainly that the mood at the same time not the better, but it is perceived by the person as ordinary reaction to deterioration in a state.
That is at the masked depression decrease the mood often hides behind other symptoms. For example, there are complaints to pains in different parts of the body, the person begins to feel weakness, his heartbeat becomes more frequent, there is a feeling of uneasiness.
Disturbing depression
The disturbing depression represents the emotional frustration accompanied with alarm.
The alarm is not the main symptom of such depression, it is additional.
Symptoms of a disturbing depression:
- problems with a dream;
- diffidence;
- the person waits only for the worst;
- there are difficulties in decision-making;
- tendency to see everywhere danger.
Long depression
The long depression is the peculiar parasite eating all good emotions, desire to aspire to the best and, generally, a part of the life. Such type of a depression appears after transferring of a long stress when to the person every day it becomes worse. Such state can lead to loss of meaning of life, to problems with health and to nervous breakdowns.
Neurotic depression
Such depression arises at a mental disorder which is followed by a long form of neurosis. The neurotic depression can have a long treatment, and there is no confidence that it will disappear after improvement of a condition of the person.
At a neurotic depression there is a feeling of helplessness, uselessness, dissatisfaction. Also the appetite vanishes. There are suicide thoughts, the hysterics is shown.
Latent depression
Sometimes the person has a feeling of physical discomfort, and even pain – it is not clear to it, than it is caused. There is a feeling of depression and full belief that all cause of pains disappears in it. But, actually, the spiritual trouble is the reason of corporal pains.
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