Depression is what doctors describe as where a person, who has felt down for a long period of time, they may also feel anxious, angry, irritable, cry a lots and their appetite can change from not eating to over eating. It also it affect the body as well as the mind, this is how the doctors tell the different between feeling ‘blue’ to having depression. Due to feeling ‘ blue’ only affects the mind not the body unlike depression.

Depression can just come on with no reason or symptoms, depression can be life threatening as some people who suffer from depression have thought about suicide, or harming them selves (and other). If this appears to happen to a person they should go the doctors as soon as possible to get treatment and help. Depression can start with just being in a low mood, (butt if this continues for more than two weeks it advised to the person to seek help for a doctor

Depression is very common and it affects a lot of people, including famous people, one famous person who suffered from depression was Winston Churchill who called depression his ‘black dog’.

 

Facts of depression:

1 in 5 adults suffers form depression within their life’s.
Doctors in the U.K diagnose around two million people with depression a year.
On average a U.K doctor see at least one person a day who suffers from depression.
Depression can effect all age groups, sex and religions.
Women are diagnosed as suffering from twice as often as men.

Symptoms of depression:

Psychological:

Low mood,
Loss of interest in things that the person may in enjoy,
Anxiety,
Emotional numbness,
Depressive thinking,
Memory and concentration problems,
Delusions,
Hallucinations,
And suicidal impulse

Physical:

Sleep problems - difficult with getting to sleep, waking up, early or sleeping ton much.Physical and mental slowing,
Increase or decrease in appetite,
Increase or decrease within weight,
Loss of interest in sex,
Tiredness,
Constipation,
Menstrual period irregularities

(Symptoms vary from person to person.)

Evidence show that people who suffered from physical or sexual abuse in their early years (E.G children) were more likely to suffer from depression. Later in life.

Different levels of depression:

Mild depression, Low mood that comes and goes, the mood isn’t always with the person.

Moderate depression, Low mood persistent and the person has physical symptoms too.

Server depression, Life threatening illness which symptoms are more intense, physical and mental, the person often has a lot more symptoms.

Moderate and severe depressions are normal treated by medication described by a doctor, too help the person’s mood.

Depression