Depression
Is there a lot of depression around the world ?
Depression is when you feeling a little down. Depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s ability to function at work and at home.One thing that everyone who goes through depression is that depression doesn't have to stop you from living if you get help.
Only some kids go through depression. Not all, but the ones who do they have reasons why to feel or be depressed. Sometimes there is kids who take depression as a joke, or make fun of this who go through depression or when they harm or cut themselves.
What can depression lead to? Depression can lead to harming yourself/ Self-injury such as like cutting yourself. Relationship problems, you might lash out at loved ones, stop going to social events or just want to be left alone. Depression leaves people drained emotionally, mentally and physically, so it becomes hard to be there for friends and family. Poor school performance, untreated depression ¬can make it very difficult to go to class and complete assignments.Health concerns, when we don’t take care of ourselves it can leave us vulnerable to other illnesses, such as the flu, or worsen health conditions we already have, such as diabetes. Addiction, the truth is that drugs and alcohol not only worsen symptoms, but they can also increase the chances that you get addicted to these substances. Reckless behavior, depressed individuals may put themselves in risky situations, with potentially dangerous consequences (e.g., driving drunk, unprotected sex).Depression can also lead to suicide. How? Depression can lead to suicide because sometimes the person who is going through depression they get tired of just living with depression and they just decide to kill themselves and just give up on everything. It is so sad to hear that someone kill themselves because of depression.
What Are the Symptoms of Clinical Depression?
Persistent sad, anxious or "empty" mood
Sleeping too much or too little, middle of the night or early morning waking
Reduced appetite and weight loss, or increased appetite and weight gain
Loss of pleasure and interest in activities once enjoyed, including sex
Restlessness, irritability
Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment (such as chronic pain or digestive disorders)
Difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions
Fatigue or loss of energy
Feeling guilty, hopeless or worthless
Thoughts of suicide or death
In case you are wondering if you going through depression, all the symptoms are listed and you can get help.
What can tell someone who is going through depression to make them feel better?
If you ever see someone going through depression, and you feel sad because maybe you have once been there stuff that you can say could be "I Care", "I'm Here for You", "Is There Anything I Can Do to Help?”, "Do You Need Someone to Talk With?","I Understand" (If You Really Do) “It's ok to feel like this”, “You aren’t weak or defective”. Those words coming from you to say it to them can help them out somehow or you can make them feel like they ain't alone and they got someone to talk to. That way they won't keep all their sadness and depression in them. You can make them feel better also.
What’s Depression Feel Like?
If there was certainty that an acute episode of depression will last only a week, a month, even a year, it would change everything. It would still be a ghastly ordeal, but the worst thing about it the incessant yearning for death, the compulsion toward suicide would drop away. But no, a limited depression, a depression with hope, is a contradiction. The conviction that it will never end except in death that is the definition of a severe depression.
