What causes depression?
Depression is a psychological disease that bothers many people, as a patient of the disease, first of all, you should understand the causes of the disease, in order to be able to timely treatment. But depression is not easy to cure the disease, patients to treat the disease, but also should regulate their own mentality.
Self-hereditary factors: if there are patients with depression in the family, then the risk of family members suffering from this disease is higher, which may be the genetic cause of depression susceptibility is elevated, is a common cause of depression. The heritability of bipolar depression is somewhat higher. However, not everyone with a family history of depression gets it, and not everyone who gets it has a family history of depression, suggesting that genetic factors are not the only ones that produce depression.
Environmental factors and stress: the loss of a severe want, strained relationships, financial difficulties, or a dramatic change in lifestyle, all of which can promote depression. Sometimes the cause of depression is related to physical illness. Serious physical illnesses, such as stroke, heart attack, and hormonal disorders, often trigger depression and aggravate the original illness. In addition, 1/3 of depressed people have substance abuse problems.
Pessimism, poor self-confidence, poor grasp of life events, and excessive worry are also common causes of depression. These personality traits exacerbate the stimulation of psychologically stressful events and interfere with the individual's processing of events. These personality traits are mostly developed during childhood and adolescence and are prone to depression.
Depression is so harmful that many patients commit suicide during the onset of the disease, so you can not ignore the problem of treatment of the disease. To treat the disease should start from the details of life, patients with depression should pay attention to self-regulation, do not blindly carry out treatment.