What are the three causes of depression?

　　Depression is a disease that makes many people very painful, as a psychological disease, depression will not only affect the patient's health, but also affect the patient's work and life, the harmfulness is something that we can not ignore, before the treatment of depression, we should also understand the causes of the disease.

　　First, the causes of depression of genetic factors: genetic factors have a definite role in the occurrence of depression, but this mainly refers to affective psychosis depression. However, depression is not a hereditary disease, and the study of heredity is mainly through the investigation of genealogy and the study of twins. This is one of the causes of depression.

　　Second, psychological and social factors: more than half of the first onset of depression patients can be found to have psychological and social factors, but there are a lot of preaching, depressive neurosis and the onset of reactive depression are no exception to the presence of psychological and social factors, especially the latter is obvious, there is no mental stimulation how to reactive depression? But as for affective psychosis of depression is related to mental stimulation, or worthy of scrutiny, some patients actually exist first depressed mood, on the basis of which encountered some of the general population is not a stimulus to the "mental stimulation".

　　Third, neuroendocrine dysfunction: many studies have found that patients with depression have hypothalamus a pituitary adrenal axis function abnormality, plasma corticosteroid and 17-hydroxycorticosteroid content increases in patients with depression.

　　There are many reasons for the onset of depression, this disease makes a lot of people are very disturbed, so the treatment of depression is also a matter of urgency. Depression is not terrible, the terrible thing is that the patient can not face up to the disease, miss the best treatment time, it will affect the treatment effect of the disease.