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- 1. Nowadays doctors are talking a lot about depression and its treatment and there are several methods that are really efficient in the fight against depression. And it is the possibility to save the world from the depressed state.
- 2. The consequences of depression may be really awful and may cause further problems in life and with surrounding. The problem is that these consequences may be even the death and suicide. It is especially dangerous for teenagers. According to statistics about 35% of teens do consider suicide.
- 3. Rarely the development of depression in old age is connected with some diseases such as endocrine disease or the certain medicine taking. The manifestation of depression in old age has its specialities in every certain case and the exact diagnosis may be set only by a doctor.
- 4. The main element in depression treatment is taking care of yourself. In fact this is essential part of depression treatment and even the preventive measure of this disease.
Depression and suicide
During the period of depression thoughts about suicide may appear due to the hard state, suppressed self-preservative instinct, hard spiritual suffering, etc. Usually such thoughts are the evidence of the depression level.
Suicide is met in 15% of cases of undiscovered mood disorders and usually appears four-five years later after the start of disease.
If there are suicide thoughts, the great desire to punish himself/herself violently appears in a person. He/she doesn't want to burden people and doesn't want others to suffer from him/her. Usually all thoughts of a sick person that such state is permanent and that the experience of people who were cured must help to avoid this state are usually not effective. In the range of cases the thought appears that there is no sense in existing.
It is necessary to consider the danger of impulse suicide attempts. Suicide actions are also possible during the light depressions when a person is unable to perceive the environment and the personality itself. Sometimes it is reflected in sharp perceiving of colours, sounds, and sensations.
During the deep depressions the sick person may be so weak that he/she has no power to make the attempt of suicide. But when he/she starts the treatment and gets the necessary medicine that increases his/her activity, the attempts of suicide are possible. The higher risk group is made by the males of 16-25 and 55-70 years old. And the risk is even higher if a person is lonely.