What are the causes of depression?

　　With the continuous development of society, people's lives are becoming more and more stressful, and some of them can't withstand these pressures and will slowly suffer from depression. Depression is a chronic mental illness that brings great harm to patients and their loved ones. So, what are the causes of depression?

　　First, the family genetic reasons. Generally speaking, families with a history of depression have a far greater chance of others in their family suffering from depression than the average family. In fact, the reality is that there are a lot of depression patients, in fact, have not suffered too much social blow, but due to genetic susceptibility or psychological susceptibility is stronger, it is easy to suffer from depression.

　　Second, caused by other diseases. Clinical trials have proved that certain endocrine diseases can also cause changes in the brain, such as hypothyroidism, which is one of the factors that directly lead to the occurrence of depression.

　　Third, due to social reasons. This is a factor that depression patients can not be ignored. Generally speaking, if a person in daily life by the study, work pressure, as well as family disharmony, conflicts between friends, is likely to lead to the occurrence of depression, in addition, when a person is facing long-term unemployment, widowhood, economic difficulties and so on, it is also very easy to cause the occurrence of depression.

　　Fourth, psychological factors. Psychological factors, both psychological quality, which mainly refers to a person's ability to cope with external stimuli, ability to cope with and ability to withstand, which methods will be used to adapt to external stimuli and blow and so on.

　　Warm tips: depressed people have extremely low self-esteem, low stress resistance, and different thoughts and cognition from normal people. Here we call on the whole society to give help to such patients, we should sympathize and understand and tolerate them, so that they get out of the shadow of depression as soon as possible, so as not to bring more harm.