Reasons for elevated rates of depression
Depression harms the physical and mental health of many people, even the mental aspect of the patient will be affected, while the patient's life is very distressing, so that the onset of the disease of depression is the factors that we must learn more about the knowledge, so as to allow friends to cope with depression more easily, to understand the causes of the relevant what is it.
The causes of depression:
Physical illnesses: a person is prone to suffer from some physical illnesses in life, but physical illnesses like stroke, heart attack, cancer, chronic pain, diabetes, hormonal disorders and advanced illnesses can invite 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.
The harm of depression:
The harm of depression a, the patient's psychological suffering. Some usual things become unusual in the heel of depressed people. This makes them survive in a tortured state of mind all the time. This condition seems to view everything through colored glasses and is markedly subjective. They interpret everyday people and events according to their pessimistic understanding. Repeated internal struggles consume the passion for life. While blaming themselves, they blame the peripheral world. Sesame-sized problems are magnified to watermelon size. Then the constant questioning and dissecting results in a deeper and deeper hole from which one cannot extricate oneself.
The harm of depression two, the patient somatic inexplicable discomfort. Depression is not only manifested in depressed mood. And there will also be somatic symptoms, such as sleep disorders, pain, fatigue, stomach upset, poor appetite, panic and shortness of breath. As well as symptoms of various systems. Patients with insidious depression often do not have typical symptoms such as low mood, but have predominantly somatic complaints. It is characterized by a multitude of symptoms though. Yet headaches and insomnia predominate, especially the tendency to wake up early.
The harm of depression III, the patient's friends and relatives are suffering from pain. It is painful to live with a depressed person. Depressed people not only torture themselves. It also affects the quality of life of those around them. For example, a depressed mother is extremely detrimental to the growth of her child. And the child's depression is likely to bring about a depressed state of mind in the parents. If the husband is depressed, then the wife will not have a good time either. From the above symptoms of depression, it is easy to imagine. How much of an impact a depressed person can have on the quality of life of their loved ones and friends.
The fourth danger of depression, the patient is like walking on thin ice of suicide. According to the World Health Organization. The suicide rate of clinically depressed patients is 10%. China's psychiatry experts survey that. More than half of the depressed patients have suicidal thoughts. 20% of them eventually end their lives by suicide. According to research. In the journey of life, people will suffer from depression at least once. But most of the people suffering from depression "in the disease do not know the disease". Only 25% of patients know.
The above knowledge allows us to understand the onset of depression is what factors, depression will make the patient's friends of the spirit of the beginning of nervousness, and mental health is jeopardized, we should be careful with the emergence of depression, more understanding of the causes of some depression, especially to prevent depression can be.