Depression as a mental illness

Many people do not consider depression a disease, therefore specialized assistance, as a rule, man turns to be very late or not at all, it turns out. Depression in our time is considered a very common disease.

Depression is a mental disease in which decreased mood, lost the ability to show emotions of joy, impaired thinking and slowed movements. This disease can cause stress, which is experienced people. And it can develop by itself, for no apparent reason. Symptoms of depression are divided into emotional, physiological, behavioral, and mental manifestations. This disease causes damage throughout the body.

Emotional manifestations include such mental States as sadness, depressed mood, feeling, feeling troubles, irritability. The patient becomes uncertain, it decreases self-esteem, lost opportunity to have fun and pleasant moments of life.

Physiological manifestations cause great harm to health. Patient with depression may experience loss of appetite, insomnia, reduced sexual desire. It can cause problems in the bowel, pain in the body, lack of energy.

Suffering from depression by his behavior can determine the development of this disease. He becomes indifferent to life, avoiding communication with the people around him. During this period, he may begin to abuse alcohol or psychotropic drugs, as they temporarily bring him relief. During this period, people cannot adequately make decisions, he develops negative thoughts about their uselessness, that everything is bad and so on.

Depression needs to be treated. But the treatment must be conducted by a specialist. With a competent, qualified and timely treatment, the disease is successfully treated.