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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.
Special types of depression
Depression may also be the part of another disease that is usually bipolar disorder or manic–depressive psychosis when the periods of depressions are changed with the periods of raised mood that is euphoria and increased workability (mania). And with the intensiveness of mania the depth of depression rises.
Dysthymia is one of the types of disorders of the mood with depressive background that is reflected with the same symptoms as depression but that are not so intensive. Irritability is the most vividly reflected symptom of dysthymia. In fact this disorder is the clinical variant of depression.
Latent depression is also one of the special types of depression. People ill with this disease have physical and vegetative disorders when there is no physical base for them in the result of investigations. A person suffers from headaches, cardio problems, changes of blood pressure, etc. The most characteristic features are the dry throat and mydriatic pupils.
Season depression is characterized by the regular fits of depression during the certain season of a year.
There is also so called postnatal depression that is developed among women that gave birth to a child recently. Usually it develops during several months after giving birth to a child. Very often it is connected with the difficulty of a young mother to get used to the role of a mother as well as the hard and intensive emotional and physical loading. Sometimes a woman is simply not ready for the role of a mother.