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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 in old age
Depression in old age is very often. It was discovered that 15-20% of people after 60 suffer from depression. And those that suffer with serious therapeutic diseases increase this number to 40-60%. And not all depressive patients of old age get the adequate therapy.
Sometimes it is very difficult to discover depression among old people. The change of temper and behaviour of sick people is the frequent reflection of depression. Old people become irritable, capricious, egoistic, concentrated on their diseases and disorders. These changes in mood, self-feeling and behaviour of old people shows that they have the serious disease that is depression.
The reasons of depression in old age are different. Depression in old age can develop as the reaction to the complicated and hard events in life, the loss of relatives, loneliness, the change of life style because of retirement, the appearance of therapeutic diseases.
Depressions in old age may be the consequences of genetic inclination to its appearance. The age changes in organism and the outer psychotherapeutic events are favourable for the discovery of this inclination, the manifestation of organic diseases of brain connected with the damage of vessels and development of senile dementia.
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.