Understanding Depression?

It has happened to all of us at some or another point of time in our lives. We sometimes start the day on a terrible note without any obvious reason, and think that the world is going to come to an end. There are occasions when we simply don't feel like going for work. It would have happened during our younger days too, when on that odd day we simply wouldn't have felt like packing our bags and leaving for school.

Everyone goes through passing phases... 
But do all these qualify as depression? Should such people be categorized under the label of depression? The answer is no and yes. It is no if you went through all these feelings in passing, brooded over an unpleasant incident for a while and got back to normal. It is yes if you allowed that feeling to stay with you for so long that you felt tired thinking of it. You felt restless. Or you felt guilty about something you didn't do, or you felt so bad you felt like killing yourself.

But the depressed stay that way
These are the typical, telltale distinctions between feelings of depression and actual depression. This is the state of mind of a depressed person -a kind of sadness that simply refuses to go away. A depressed person doesn't go through a bad patch for a while; he remains in that state for hours and days, even months, even after a positive change has happened in his life. For many people with depression, one of the biggest challenges is performance of simple, day-to-day tasks. That is the way they are almost always -overwhelmed by feelings of sadness, powerlessness, self-pity and hopelessness.

Why only them?
Why are some people so badly depressed, while many others aren't? This is one of the most difficult questions to answer for medical science. Why and how some people endure life's greatest calamities and remain calm and even happy, while others crack off at the smallest provocation is one of nature's mysteries. This explains why there is no typical reason for which people become depressed.

In search of factors
Some scientists attribute it to genes, which give them preponderance towards a bad mental state.

Another very common factor that one finds in most depressed people is their adverse conditions in life. Some grow up in environments of adversity, hostility or abuse, and these impact their outlook strongly. Yet, even this is not the most convincing of factors and there should be something that is unique about them that brings it out. Countless people turn disadvantageous situations into positive ones and consider bad situations as life's experiences and become wiser and more humane.Depressed people, on the other hand, take everything around them so seriously that they tend to get depressed for reasons that seem unreasonable or even outright silly for normal people.

Secondary factors linked to depression include some kinds of medication and temporary reasons like pregnancy and recovery from trauma. Whatever the reason; depression is a serious psychological malady that needs to be addressed from a variety of standpoints.

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