Physical causes of depression

  Depression will plague the patient's life, but also hurt the patient's health, so that their mental aspects of the more abnormal, there are many triggering factors of depression, we should be seriously to understand the knowledge of depression, so what are the factors of the onset of depression, look down to bring friends to recognize it.

  Physical disease: it is easy for a person to suffer from some physical diseases in life, but like stroke, heart attack, cancer, chronic pain, diabetes, hormonal disorders and advanced diseases these physical diseases may cause depression. Having apathy or not being able to deal with one's physical needs may be a mood response or objective reaction to a physical illness, or it may be a precursor to depression.

  Personality factors: this is one of the main causes of depression, such as life in the sensitive, suspicious, unstable mood, strong, pessimistic, low self-confidence, poor thought forms, excessive chagrin or feel simply can not control the life of things and other personalities, are prone to depression, some of the personality.

  Biochemical factors: When a person suffers from depression, there is often a gradual decrease in the number of chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain. If there is an imbalance between the two neurotransmitters, 5-hydroxytryptophan and norepinephrine, it can lead to depression or anxiety. 5-hydroxytryptophan and norepinephrine decreases often lead to low mood, decreased motivation, and changes in appetite and sex drive.

  Biological rhythm changes: we are living in some physiological function indicators such as body temperature, sleep, cortisol and other endocrine have biological circadian rhythm changes is on behalf of a person's affective neurological presentations of disorders, the main manifestation of phase shift, mostly phase forward, that is, the peak of the physiological rhythm of the time earlier, the patient's eyes in depression fast-moving sleep ambient period is shortened (i.e., forward), some people think that can be regarded as the depression of the biological indicators with conclusive significance.

  Genetics, common assumption that a person's family has a history of depression, then they suffer from depression is far more likely than normal people. Research shows that one of the parents have depression, the children have a 25% chance of getting the disease; if both parents are patients with depression, the children's prevalence rate advances to 50% to 75%. Environmental triggers, such as in the life of some people feel stressed about life things and the sense of loss may lead to a person suffering from depression, such as widowhood (especially the elderly widowed, simply eight, 90% of people will get this disease), divorce, loss of work, financial crisis, loss of health. Drugs, if a person has been taking high blood pressure medication, arthritis or Parkinson's medication for a long period of time, then it greatly increases the risk of depression.

  Diseases: such as living with heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer with Alzheimer's disease of these chronic diseases, once the disease, the patient is more likely to suffer from depression. Hyperthyroidism, even a subtle condition, can suffer from melancholia. Sadness can also be a precursor to serious illnesses such as pancreatic cancer, brain tumors, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease. Individuals, who are at greater risk of suffering from depression, assuming that they have a long history of negative moods such as low self-esteem, self-blame, and pessimism in their lives. Smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, before a lot of people feel that they can use alcohol and nicotine to soothe the mood of depression. But in fact, the use of these things can actually trigger sadness and anxiety. Diet, if a person's rituals are deficient in folic acid and vitamin B12, may also cause sadness.

  The above content describes the factors that can trigger the emergence of depression, depression will not only bring extremely serious harm, but also will disturb the patient's friends life, we must learn more about the knowledge of depression, especially the need to do a good job of analyzing the causes of depression, we can early prevention of depression disease.

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