Do you have depression? What to do if you have one!

Anguish, depression, anxiety, joyless, indifference, hopelessness, if you are experiencing one of these feelings - art for you - we will go about depression.

Such a mental disorder like depression, has some features, such as: depression often develop in the female population, they become the skate community. Depressive disorder in our days are so common that in France in patients with mild depression do not issue medical certificates. Increasingly described disorder tends to spread, to become the norm of civilized society. It should be noted that approximately a third of depressive disorders should be fashionable. Some young women suffer from depression the same way as have the desire to visit the shops of fashionable clothes.

Generally, in medicine depression made by the troika to recognize the symptoms.

The first thing you should pay attention, because it is to reduce the overall mood, which takes a pessimistic setting to life. The range of mood disorders ranging from mild sadness to a physical sensation of "stone heart".

The second symptom of depression - reduction of motor activity. The man in this state becomes slow. He himself is a state perceives as weakness, lethargy, fatigue.

The third symptom, completing the triad - a slowing of thinking. For some, it may be confusing, and you ask: "What does this mean?" My answer, for experts in the field of psychiatry indicator tempo of your thinking - it, as well as responses to questions addressed to you. The man, who suffers from depression, says a slower and quieter than usual, he did not notice, but there are always around, which would point to it. Subjectively, the slowing of thinking, you can assess how forgetfulness, the violation of focus.

Classical trio signs, of course, may often occur in the life of any person. Moreover, in a bad mood you can visit several times a day, accompanied by a loss, or a mourning event in life. Therefore, the depression made to attribute the state of up to two, three or more months.

To understand, develop whether you are depressed, the above symptoms may not always be enough, so it cause a number of typical signs of depression:

Depressive state can be determined from the decrease in sexual desire, and increase feelings of guilt. Another characteristic feature is the dryness of mucous membranes, skin, reducing its turgor. Depressive dryness extends even to the lacrimal gland.

Separately, it is worth noting brittle hair and nails. If you're a girl, and you have similar problems (it is the topic of a separate article), most such violations are not associated with developing a depressive condition, but with the loss of blood during the menstrual cycle and associated blood loss iron deficiency anemia.

For depression tend decreased appetite and weight loss.

Importantly sleep disorder that occurs with depression. Sleep in depression is short in duration, accompanied by early awakening, a man gets up at four or five o'clock in the morning after sleep away feeling relax.

It sometimes happens that, at first glance, no signs of illness, there is no classic symptoms described above, but a detailed examination of a specially-designed clinical and psychological methods to reveal hidden forms of the disease. This depression of doctors called the hidden or masked. The human psyche is arranged so that the first time more formidable offenses as apathy or sleep disturbance may be expressed in normal irritability and constant feeling of anxiety.

Causes of depression variety, and the mechanisms are complex and relate to arise in the nervous system deficits substances. For example, the lack of norepinephrine, makes people tired, stalled, unable to concentrate on certain activities. Reduction of serotonin leads to irritability, and sometimes even aggression. State with a shortage of the two above-described substances can be described as severe depression, loss of vital interests, persistent insomnia. All this - ominous signs of the depressive disorder.

What to do?
If you find yourself in most of these symptoms, there is a high probability that you have developed the disease. To start, you must delete the existing relationship of symptoms with alcohol, drugs and narcotics, the presence of endocrine disorders and injuries of the central nervous system. Next, you are required to learn that in nature there is no ready-made substances that are able to recharge originating in the nervous system deficit. Traditional medicine or self-medication will not help you get out of developing depression. People who have doubts about his mental health should seek qualified medical help.

Treatment of depression in the world comes down to the individual selection of antidepressant drug action. The process of selection is complicated by the fact that modern antidepressants are decent, and the therapeutic effect begins to develop in the second week of admission or, in general, in a month. A qualified specialist can save you money and time. Given the nature of the disease, the doctor will offer exactly the antidepressant, which is best for you. Hallmark of effective treatment is to reduce symptoms of depression harassing you, normalization of mood and growing optimism.

It is worth saying a few words about the treatment of depressive disorders with psychotherapy, yes, the method an excellent complement to medical treatment, but does not replace it. Psychotherapy allows you to quickly recover its lost optimism, to restore self-esteem, depressive oppressed people. Treatment of depression only psychotherapeutic methods, like walking community, not the lighter, somewhere more, and then - again all over again.