Tuesday, October 28, 2008

How To Help A Friend Through Depression

By Don Pedro

Social situations around you can be affected by your mood. As a matter of fact, if you are depressed enough, you might not want to be involved at all in anything. Sometimes it gets so bad that you sequester yourself away in some locked room for days and people can't get to you. Always work on ensuring you don't do anything that can harm you or anyone when you are depressed. Better still, work hard on forcing yourself to get out of such depressive states.

Mania is something that can result from a depressive state that has been neglected. All of a sudden you could feel like there is no point to anything anymore, and you might want to be hurting yourself or others. The people who suffer the most, aside from yourself, are the people closest to you.

One form of depression that is quite common but that people don't know a lot about is dysthymia. This is the kind of depression in which you experience occasional episodes of what seems like major depression, but it does not last very long. However, you could suffer from it for quite a while before you are even diagnosed, which is not nice not nice at all.

Psychiatrists and psychologists all over view depression as a sincere illness. In its severe form, it manifests in various ways and can even lead to a number of mental and physical symptoms. In the end, it could actually even kill you. That's why you need to get it cured in a hurry.

Readings from various research sources indicate that depression is more rampant in modern day than it was in the last century. For some reason, people are being more worried and sad as the days go by. This is not in the United States alone in fact; it is a thing that has been observed all over the world. But of course, anyone can do something about depression - they can choose to fight and win the war against depression, rather than allow it to win.

There are times when depression could come upon you seemingly without explanation or warning. Things could actually even be going well and for no reason at all you feel that familiar sadness and woebegone sensation. You simply have to look out for it least it overpowers you. Always know that you are in control and can change your thinking anytime you want to.

Depression will change your energy level for sure, negatively that is. Restlessness and agitation are never far away, leaving you fidgeting and pacing. Also, it could be the other way round. You could lie down moping throughout the whole of the day and yet feel no better at the end of it.

Most suicide cases are from depressed people who got psychotic. You have got to understand, the person allowed the condition to stay inside so long that it drove him crazy. There's no easy way back from that. The guy needs more treatment than you might averagely find, and when they leave hospital, you have still got to keep a close eye on them. If you are such a person, you need to really work on yourself to get back to normal. It's rare, I agree, but it's possible. - 15255

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