What is depression?

Depression - a mental illness characterized by mood disorder


What are the symptoms of depression?

The most common symptoms of depression are:

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Bleak, depression, loss of sensation of pleasure.
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The lack of interest.
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Inability to concentrate, memory.
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Failure to take action, obsessive return to the same issues.
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Fear (to everyday life or indeterminate), inner restlessness, anxiety.
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The sense of fatigue, lack of energy.
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Sleep Disorders.
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Loss of appetite, reducing weight.
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Lack of sexual interest.
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The sense of pressure, heaviness in the abdomen and chest.
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Vegetative symptoms (dry mouth, constipation, sweating, etc.).

What if depression is suffering people close to you?

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We should not ignore the complaints and to prohibit a patient from depression.
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Do not let the flat and comforting remark or trivial podbadrivany.
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Do not attempt to liven up the patient.
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Stress short-term depressive state, warned the hope for an end to depression.
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Do not call for expressions of the will of the patient, do not talk to him: «You must commit itself to the hand», you could if you wanted to », etc.
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Do not make the patient feel helpless and guilty man.
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Do not call for such virtues as faith, or sense of responsibility.
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To release the depressed patient from having to make decisions, especially important.
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Keep yourself with the patient calm, smoothly and confidently.
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Organize themselves coming to the doctor and accompany the patient
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Relieve the patient against his or her personal and business contacts.
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Do not change the fundamental habits of the patient.
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Do not insist on sick leave, especially if there are no signs of pronounced depression.
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Show your sympathy and understanding, keep the patient in the discharge of his own immediate and real problems.
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Pay attention to the patient at all that it can be done, do not let yourself with triumphant intonations.
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Watch for regular compliance with the patient, measured the distribution of cases in the daily
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Do not allow the patient to lie in the morning in bed, lay down to sleep early and stayed one.
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Make sure that patient care.
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Avoid factitious gaiety.
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Do not blame, and comments.
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Try to stimulate the patient's breathing.
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Not to refer to the past successes of the patient.
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Do not self sick, contact your specialist psychiatrists.

How to treat depression?
Modern treatment of depression includes:

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Use of biological methods of therapy (primarily drug psihofarmakologicheskimi). A prerequisite for effective treatment is the cooperation with your doctor: strict adherence to the prescribed regime of treatment, frequency of visits to the doctor, a detailed, frank account of his condition and life difficulties.
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Psychotherapy (individual, group and family) is not an option, but an important addition to the medical treatment of depression. In contrast to the pharmacological treatment of psychotherapy involves a more active role in patient care. Psychotherapy helps patients develop skills for emotional self-regulation in the future to better cope with the crisis, not plunging into depression.

What usually prevents the treatment of psihoterapevticheskroy help?

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Low awareness of people about what psychotherapy.
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Fear of initiation of foreign rights in the personal, intimate experience.
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Skepticism that the "conversations" can provide significant therapeutic effect.
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The notion that psychological problems have to handle yourself in a reference to another person is a sign of weakness.

Help closest people to overcome depression.
Support for relatives of people, even when the patient does not express interest in it is very important to overcome depression.
In this regard, you can give the following advice to relatives of patients:

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Remember, depression - a disease in which you want sympathy, but neither koem if you can not dive into the disease along with patients, sharing his pessimism and despair. You need to be able to maintain a certain emotional distance, all the time reminding themselves and the patient that depression - this is a transient emotional state.
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Studies have shown that depression has adversely especially in those families where they do a lot of criticism of the patient. Try to understand the patient that his condition - it is not his fault, and the trouble that he needs the help and treatment.
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Try not to focus on the illness of a person and bring positive emotions in their life and family life. If possible, try to involve the patient in some useful activity, but did not remove him from the case.