Depression a silent killer
What is depression?
Lack of control of a person on its own emotions, thinkings and physical act is known as depression. Depression is known as a kind of mental illness that effects a person’s moods and emotions in a way that it causes a person’s brain to stimulate violence and in some cases, physical harm too. This is the reason why depression illness is known as a silent killer because major depressed patients tend to tire their brains fast which in veins convulsion and eventually death.
Depression is a silent brain illness that is not seen by a normal person but its effects are equal to a worst terrific sometimes incurable body disease.
Effected depression person only knows the seriousness of this disease and how it slowly eats up the brain’s peace, controlled emotions and normal thinking abilities.
What causes depression?
As we all know, illness of brain is not easily detected like physical illness bacause their is always a physical set reason that cause the certain physical disease but in a matter of mental disease one cause is never enough to detect a certain problem or illness.
There are many mental reasons and causes connected with emotions and person’s thinking that ignites depression.
Conflicts
Conflicts in families and friends are a main cause of depression in many sensitive hearted people. Teenagers are highly effected by depression these days due to conflicts and violence between their parents, which cause the disruption of unity and peace between the family members. This is the main cause why a high number of teenagers are effected by depression and are indulged in violent acts due to lack of family love and support.
For some people, their friends occupies the highest space in their life, which eventually makes them dependant on them for their happiness,sadness and peace. Due to any conflict between friends, these type of people always feel lonely and highly scared amongst everyone. Which highly effects their moods and emotions causing them to feel depressed and not loved by anyone.
Abuse:
Abuse is a wide and the most important cause of depression in a person. Every human bieng gas their own past tragic stories and experiences which moulds them or breaks them. Abuse is one of a breaking kind tragic.
Abuse in simple words means to treat someone forcefully in a cruel and violent manner, reapeatedly. There are many types of abuses such as physical abuse, mental abuse and sexual abuse etc.
Physical abuse means harming someone with physical tools, without their consent.
Mental abuse means blackmailing and torturing someone with words in a way that a person unwillingly gets controlled by someone else without complaining.
Sexual abuse often happens in a relationship. When a person forces sex or sexual relationship or act on someone else without their will is known as sexual abuse. It is commonly known as physical rape.
The past connected with any kind of abuse, breaks a person’s emotions and mould it’s brain in such a violent way that it can easily harm itself to stop the pain of feeling vulnerable and helpless during the times of abuse.
Death and loss:
The death of a loved one or a closed one from family or friends causes a person to feel lonely or in a big loss, which causes depression due to sadness and overthinking.
Major life event:
Some people experience a tragic life even such as a severe accident, loss of their loved one’s in a fire or in any kind of tragic situation; the sadness and nightmares from those events sticks to their brains like chewing gum in hair, an unforgettable memory. This continous sadness and fear burdens the brain’s nerves, causing depression.
Drugs:
Teens these days are more inclined towards wines and harmfull drugs to party, to pook cool among friends or to forget unhappy imbalances in their lives. Drugs contains depressive disorders classified as organic mood syndrome which for the time being makes a person to forget the bitterness of life and enjoy it but at the same time starts effecting brain, causing it to become more violent to its emotions and moods and causing a lack of patience in a person.
Hormonal changes:
Hormonal changes in the body as the body grows at different stages and ages can commence depression. Teenagers reaching to the age of puberty often faces natural violent emotions like anger, lack of patience, high passion to do risky things; is due to the change of hormones in their body which effects their brain because a body takes time to settle to changes around it.
Similarly, adults growing old faces some blood blockages in vessels which prevents blood flowing correctly to the brain causing brain to function stressfully.
Types of depression:
There are many different types of depression ranging from leniency to severity.
- Major depression:
People in major depression experience its symptoms almost everyday for atleast two weeks. This type of depression effects the person’s sleeping and eating order.
Persistent depressive disorder:
Also known as dysthymia, is a long lasting form of depression. This type of depression last minimun of two years, with severe to low symptoms in between.
- Seasonal effective disorder:
This type of depression symptoms comes and goes only in certain seasons, most likely in winter season. Winter season in many areas are long silent nights with greater darkness hours, which in many people causes fear and a feel of loneliness.
- Premenstrual disphoric disorder:
Many women and girls experience major mood swings 7 to 10 days prior to their ■■■■■■■■■■■■, and 5 to 6 days after it.
- Perinatal or postpartum:
Women are highly affected by perinatal depression during their pregnancy or postpartum depression symptoms adter delivery due to severe hormonal changes in the body.
- Psychotic depression:
It has a major depression symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions or sensing or hearing things that are not present, this is known as psychosis. It is a major type of depression where a person starts loosing control on its senses.
6. Bipolar disorder:
It is the type of depression which causes major mood shifts ranging from mania to depression.
While experiencing mania, a person may feel in a high roller coaster of emotions with high energy.
People experiencing hypomania may feel regular mood swings and sadness but it is not as major as mania.
Third stage of bipolar disorder is, depression. It is a type where a person gets suicidal thoughts and is unable to sleep or take too much sleep.
3 types of bipolar disorder describes different types of symptoms to be detected.
Symptoms of depression:
Depression patients can be detected and observed by many symptoms in their daily lives which indicate their problem clearly.
1:People with depression often experience insomnia or disturbance in their sleeping pattern.
2:Random outburst of tears or anger is one of the symptom of depression.
3:Loss of interest in hobbies and favourite indulging activities.
4:Suicidal thoughts is the common and major symptom of depression.
5:Lack of interest in sex or interest in high energectic with no protection sex.
6:Appetite loss.
7:Regular sadness and low energy.
8:People experiencing depression love to be in isolation with zero social interaction.
9:People in depression are more inclined towards self harm like making cuts with blade, cutting their veins. It in some ways give them a sense of power and pleasure.
Treatment to cure depression:
Depression is the the kind of illness that cannot be cured completely. Yes depression is controlled by many medications and psychological treatments and sessions but a depressed person is never fully cured because a person’s brain never changes its behaviour of thinking and feeling. But depression in mamy ways is controlled from bieng severe, which can cause death.
1:Psychotherapy:
People experiencing depression seek help from psychological doctors known as psychiatrist who by talking and listening to their patients life problems, try to shift their negativity and negative thoughts into more positive thinkings.
**2: Medication:**
Depression many times is not
cured only by the doctors chats
and words so doctors prescribe
anti-depressant pills or mood
stabilizers to give peace to the
aggressive brain and boost up
person's energy.
3: Mind-body medicine:
Some kind of brain excercises and
meditation is the best way to cure
depression and to make the
therapies and medications more
effective. Excercises and
meditation gives the depressed
mind a sense of relaxation and
peace to think and act calmly.
4: Brain stimulation:
Patients with severe depression
illness with ineffective medications
and therapy, experience
electro-convulsive therapy where
shock it given to the brain through
machines to stimulate nerves and to
make them pass right commands to
eachother.
Conclusion:
Brain is the sensitive and the most important ■■■■■ of a human body. Its healthy and happy working makes everyday functions and tasks easy for a person. That is why it is always advised to seek help from a doctor immediately if a person face any kind of depression system to prevent it from killing a person silently through brain and its nerves under the pressure of immense emotions and over thinking. Mental illness is always the severe and sensitive illness that us not to be taken lightly or laughed about. Person suffering from mental illness should be helped by many immediately for him to live life fully and more peacefull.