Depression Days

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There are over eleven million people in the United States alone that suffer from depression. So if you are reading this understand you are not alone. Depression is a mental disorder that can affect your personal, school, and work life. Some of the signs of depression are an intense feeling of hopelessness, inability to take pleasure out of little things in life, a lack of ambition, and loss of mental focus. While depression affects both genders, it is strongest in women. It doesn’t just affect one group of people. To get an appropriate diagnosis you need to talk to your doctor who may refer you to a therapist.

The most common treatments for depression are a combination of drug therapy and natural remedies. The most common drug treatments used is an anti depressant drug regimen. The ones doctors prescribe the most are: tricyclic, Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MOI’S), and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s). Out of the two SSRI’s are the more commonly used due to the lesser amount of side effects that taking this medication could cause. Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft are the brand names of the most common forms. Read the rest of this entry »

A disease that affects millions of people in the United States is depression. All sexes, ages, social classes and religions can be affected with this terrible disease. It can have very devastating effects on a person’s life if left untreated. It can appear suddenly or it can show up after a very stressful period in your life like a death in the family, divorce and others.

The symptoms alone are enough to disrupt a person’s ability to do just about anything. Some of the things that can and be affected by this disease are sleeping, studying and the ability to enjoy their life. If a person finds that they have these symptoms and they persist longer than just a few days or weeks the person needs to talk about it with their doctor. Read the rest of this entry »

Depression Blues – Why do we feel this way? What makes us feel this way? Will these feelings ever go away? I’m sure everyone suffers from “the blues” at some stage, but for someone suffering from depression, it is having the blues all day every day. Does it ever go away? Why do we have to suffer like this? How many times to you think to yourself ‘pull yourself out of it’? How many times do you think ‘if I just start walking every day, do some exercise, think more positive it will all be ok’. It is true, doing this can help, but its just not as easy as it sounds. When suffering from depression you know what you need to do but its just so hard to motivate yourself to do it. You feel so down that you just don’t have the energy to go and do some exercise. Read the rest of this entry »