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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Depression - An Illness or Fashion? Part One

Depression ... We are continually confronted with people living with this disease or whether they were victims of this "plague of the late 20th century." Looking at the incredible number of "patients' depression inadvertently suggests the idea that no is not a disease but merely a tribute to fashion.

Is again at the peak of popularity for society are languishing sighs, self-torture, the tears, every now and then screw-in eyes without any reason, the endless oohs and ahs da etc.? So, the first of the diametrically opposing views.

Depression - fashion.

Oddly, but in the spring, most people who call themselves depressed patients, illness is dissolved in a sea of fresh flavors, the singing birds and a riot of youth swelling buds on the branches of waking up. But in autumn, on the contrary, by every modern girl schoolgirl can we hear the phrase, uttered with such sadness in his voice that just my heart bleeds: "I have autumn depression ... Oh ...." Paradoxically, the psychiatrists and psychologists around the world in one voice say that the escalation in really depressed people may fall ... and in the spring. Yes, yes, exactly. And in the spring, too. Depression is an exception among other mental illnesses and disorders, and consequently, the spring song of the birds is unlikely to cure it.

The fact that the fall and winter our mood is steadily going down to the minus sign, of course, because the days are getting shorter, gray, gloomy. On all sides we are relentlessly attacking the dirt, mud, cold and darkness. At work we run a dark street, sometimes from the window of frozen trolleybus can be seen not yet extinct stars in the sky.

On the way back we will have the same grim picture, yet embellished and heightened by the wind, which can not wait to sign us to their spiny arms. Well, at any reasonable person not to spoil the mood of this picture? Is that hopelessly in love with winter, romantics and optimists who look like their reflection in the ice of the frozen puddles and slush underfoot known not only as snow. Does this mean that everyone who complains about the arrival of the cold season, people with depression? In my opinion, no ... I'll tell you a secret that the lack of sunlight can replace simple and so familiar to us all the bright electric light.

From time to time, people tend to feel sadness, pain, anguish. And it is absolutely natural and logical. Could people rightfully call himself a man if he was insensitive and lacking compassion for a creature? And he could empathize and sympathize with, if he did not feel absolutely no ill feelings? Much to our regret, the man is not perfect and sometimes positive feelings are entirely absorbed and suppressed feelings negative. This is where you can talk about depression or other mental illness.

What we now so readily take for depression, more similar to this old concept, as melancholy. In its origin melancholia originates from one of the four moods "which described the Hippocrates. He called it the mood of "black bile." I believe the name speaks for itself, and no further description is superfluous melancholy.

Melancholy, or the so-called "mild depression" can be easily overcome through sports or other active hobbies, or else taking a course of vitamins, especially well past help after a prolonged winter. Only about one hundred years ago, scientists first seriously interested in depression, and antidepressants emerged and that later - but early in the second half of the twentieth century. I wonder how in the old days people cope with this disease? Or maybe they just did not know about it, and therefore hurt less?

Many psychiatrists argue that even the deepest state of depression can be overcome, just like a regular bout of the blues. The key point in this struggle is the fact that you are required to strive to raise their spirits and put himself in order. The hardest part - get yourself to act and stop to look for reasons to be sad. And in this case, even recourse to a professional is a consequence of their own efforts.

People, especially women, are often repeat one another phrase: "Well, what do you cheat yourself?". Familiar? Of course, it is heard by all, and not once. Always, when we worry for their loved ones, our imagination is taken to paint horrific pictures. For example, when a spouse for half an hour late, and the mobile is not responding. Most of us have 20 minutes to climb the head the idea that ice on the roads, will begin to choke the memories of how last week you have "clipped" and you almost flew into the opposite lane, and similar horrors. In short, you will gradually raises the self, and chop into outright panic!

This state may last for as long as the door burst open, and you do not embrace his beloved's neck. Exactly the same way as we multiplies own fears, we can multiply and the disease. The line between melancholy and depression is very thin. The main thing - do not cross that line. Depression-mode is most easily subject to depression, illness, because they often begin to believe that the utter ...


To be continued.

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