Depression is a common psychiatric illness. It is necessary to identify the symptoms of depression before it is too late because the depressed patient loses all hope and gets trapped in the cage of negative thoughts. Depression is just like a fake cloud of problems. If depression is detected in the early phase then it can be easily cured. It is necessary to take good care of Depression patient because they become lonely from the inside. Most people don't treat depression as a disease they just ignore it which can result in some serious problems. If the treatment of depression is done at the right time then the results of treatment are better. Most people believe in rumours related to depression and its treatment but it can lead to a serious mental condition. To identify depression you must know about its symptoms.
Symptoms of Depression
Sadness in mind
The First and the main symptom of Depression is sadness in mind. The important thing about Depression sadness is it always continues to grow on its own. If something good also happens in life then also Depression patient is unable to feel
happiness.
Loss of interest
The second symptom of Depression is loss of interest. The patient starts to lose interest in everything from this world. Entertaining things like watching TV, playing outside and partying with friends also do not show any effect in depression patient.
Negative thoughts
Depression patients get very many negative thoughts that make them feel like a loser and Useless Person they start to get negative future thoughts. In good things also they start to find bad things.
Energy level
Depression patient feel always tired. Their Energy level decreases sometimes they don't even have the energy to step out of bed also.
Bad Concentration
Not able to focus on one thing and getting distracted by negative thoughts can be a sign of Depression.
Hunger
Hunger decreases during the depression with the decrease in patients weight. But in some minority cases, hunger can increase cause an increase in weight.
change in sleep pattern
Insomnia and disturbed sleep pattern are common depression symptom.
suicidal thoughts
It is a last but most important Symptom of depression. Patients start to think that there is nothing left in their life they have lost everything and it is better to end up life instead of living. Sometimes it is seen that in some cases patients family members and friends don't take suicidal thoughts seriously and sometimes it can be dangerous.
Treatment of Depression
IF Symptoms of Depression stay more than a few weeks then it is called clinical depression. If you find these symptoms in your self then dost waste your time doing experiments on your self. Go and ask for help from a doctor and psychiatrist because clinical depression needs medical treatment.
How medical treatment is done
According to the latest guidelines if the symptoms are very mild and depression is in starting phase then Some times exercise helps most in that case. When people perform an exercise like Running, Jogging, swimming and dancing, etc. these things helps to release some good chemicals in the brain which many times uplifts the mood and can lower the chance of depression. Yoga and meditation can also help very much in some cases. But these things are unable to heal the depression completely. That's why medical treatment is done to the patient most common medical treatment is the use of medicines.
It has been seen that in some depression patients brain some chemical decreases due to which some chemical imbalance occurs. The medical treatment focuses on that chemicals. Depression patients are given medicines that normalise the chemical imbalance
Now the problem with this medicine is that people fear from this medicines the think that they will have to take these medicines for whole life, those medicines can disturb their sleep and medicines have large no of side effect But these all rumours there is nothing to believe in them. Depression treatment can be long from six to nine months but it is not for a whole life. Some side effects can also occur with the medicines like pain in the stomach and Acidity but they can be easily treated with normal medicine. In long team side, effect weight gain can occur but by exercising and controlling your diet you can control it
Treatment by Counselling
Another way to treat depression is by counselling which is called psychotherapy in medical language. Counselling focuses on the thought process of the patient. In depression patients negative thoughts patterns develop to identify that pattern and change it into a healthy and positive pattern is the main purpose of counselling.
It is hard for a depressed patient to get out of it but by some medical treatment, anyone cures his depression. If you are depressed then try to think positive and tell yourself that "this bad time will pass".
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