Today I want to teach you to identify the symptoms of a real epidemic of the twentieth century, from which, to a greater or lesser degree, suffered or affects every second adult of our planet.
Signs of depression need to see to manage to save a person close to you in time, because this mental disorder is very, very dangerous.
Where does depression and its symptoms come from?
Many people mistakenly believe that depression is a modern disease that has appeared either because of the difficult life today, or because people with fat are furious.
Like, in our time this was not.
I hasten to upset you: it was.
Depression, as a mental illness, has been known since antiquity, it used to be called "melancholy".
Before talking about the signs of depression, , it is worth considering the reasons that cause such a dangerous disease.
Very rarely, but it happens that from the violation of the exchange of neurotransmitters, depression occurs just like that.
That's all in a person's life is safe, he did not experience any special cataclysms, but the psychiatric disorder took and appeared on an equal place.
Most of the depression caused quite simple and understandable reasons:
- overwork;
- pressure surrounding;
- impossibility for a long period to achieve the desired;
- failure in his personal life or career;
- disease;
- loneliness and stuff.
If you understand that in your life there has come a black streak, then try to mobilize all forces so as not to become a victim of depression.
Relax, concentrate, even on small, but still - joys, struggle with difficulties, and do not fold before them.
Why is it dangerous not to pay attention to signs of depression?
Depression is really a common disease, and if you take into account the fact that often a stress or a bad mood takes over for this disease, the picture is very, very bleak.
Usually the reaction of friends and relatives of people suffering from depression is divided into three types:
- those who start running around the patient( often - imaginary), like a hen;
- are those who simply ignore it;
- those who are angry because of his bad mood and in an aggressive tone calls for a "shake up", "not to sour", "not to stupefy his head", etc.
Not right and one, and the second, and the third. The first - fed manipulators and form weaklings. And the second and the third often by their selfishness and indifference bring the sick person to suicide.
Yes, you did not mishear, that's how many people suffering from manic depression end up.
What to do when everything is bad: 10 tips
Once in one of the psychological forums I read the story of unhappy parents.
Their teenage daughter suffered from an undivided first love.
They, instead of giving her a helping hand, only shouted: "Better think about evaluations! There will still be such loves in your life! "
It turned out - there will not be.
A child driven to a manic depression committed suicide.
Parents that have failed to save their daughter, try to warn against the mistakes of other moms and dads.
15 basic signs of depression
As you can see, depression is very dangerous.
And more dangerous that non-specialists can not diagnose it, so often the condition of a loved one is written off for a bad mood or temporary difficulties.
And the people suffering from depression do not always understand that they are sick and need help.
According to psychologists, the 15 main signs of depression look like this:
- A man complains of the constant fatigue of , something that can not be restored either overnight or over the weekend.
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Sluggishness and apathy to everything.
What was recently important and exciting in the life of a patient with depression, now he is absolutely not interested.
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Sleep disorders.
It is impossible to fall asleep from the evening( various harmful thoughts climb into your head, you toss from side to side), and in the morning you are not able to wake up.
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Power system violations.
A person either completely loses his appetite and stops eating even dishes that he loved before, or starts absorbing everything, rapidly gaining kilograms.
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Low self-esteem.
An adult does not suffer from incomprehensible complexes for no reason at all.
He begins to feel that such a freak, an idiot like him, is not in the whole world, etc. -
Feeling of anxiety, the feeling that something terrible is about to happen, does not let go.
Sometimes the waves of unreasonable fear roll.
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Unwillingness to do something.
I want to go to bed and never go up.
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Even more often there are thoughts about the afterlife, about the afterlife.
Close people can find bookmark sites or magazines with articles about suicides.
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Ungrounded aggression.
Every little thing starts to lose its temper. I want to scream, fight, smash something, etc.
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Inability to concentrate attention.
Here you just talked about something and suddenly a person completely disconnects, stops responding to comments, and then can not remember what it was all about.
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Desire to hide from people, voluntary imprisonment in four walls.
Especially, you need to be alert if this is how a sociable, cheerful person begins to behave, who used to have a lot of friends.
- Appearing bad habits of : alcohol, cigarettes, drugs.
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Concentration on negative life moments.
Even if something good happens, the depressed patient perceives this without much enthusiasm, as an accident.
But he is ready to talk about troubles constantly.
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Unwillingness to care for their appearance.
Indifference to the state of their clothes and shoes.
A person may stop washing, so an unpleasant smell will begin to accompany him.
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Loss of ability to experience any feelings: compassion, pain, joy, surprise, delight, etc.
My teacher told me that the mother of one of her patients diagnosed her daughter with depression( and was absolutely right) when they witnessed the tragedy( the car moved the dog), and the girl did not even react.
Also look at the educational video about what
depression is and how to diagnose it:
If you find yourself or a loved one depressing ( I repeat, depression, not bad mood), then do not try to fight themyourself.
This disease is not so easy to overcome without assistance.