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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.
Types of depression
Usually the origins of depression are made by the combination of several reasons and especially if it is connected with the hereditary inclination and stress provocation of disease.
There are endogenous depression and reactive or situational depression. The first type is caused by the genetic reasons. The second type is caused by the certain stressed event.
Heredity plays an important role in the appearance of depression. There are even the whole nations inclined to depression. And if one of your relatives suffered from depression once, then there is high risk that you'll also suffer from it. And sometimes it may develop without the obvious reasons as if from the inner state. This is endogenous depression. Antidepressants are the only method of this kind of depression treatment.
But if you have the genes of depression it doesn't mean they will develop and manifest. Genes of depression could be got from far relatives and ancestors.
Stresses are often favourable for the appearance of depression. The reasons may be both the strong stresses and chronic overwork. Even the smallest change in the usual life style may provoke the development of depression.
Sometimes depressions may be caused by the physical diseases in hormonal changes. It is not occasional that women suffer from depression two times more often than men.