HUMAN DEPRESSION

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Depression is a serious mental disorder in which a person suffers long periods of sadness and other negative feelings. Then depression also describes a normal mood involving the sadness, grief, disappointment, or loneliness that everyone experiences at times. This article discusses depression as a mental disorder.

Definition
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Depression people may feel fearful, guilty, or helpless. They often cry, and many lose interest in work and  social life. Many cases of depression also involve aches, fatigue, loss of appetite, or other physical symptoms. Some depressed patients try to harm or kill  themselves. Periods of depression may occur alone, or alternate  with periods of mania (extreme joy and overactivity) in a  disorder called manic depression psychosis.

Psychiatrists do not fully understand the causes of depression, but they have several theories. Some psychiatrists believe that depression follows the loss of a  relative, a friend, a job, or a valued goal. Many psychiatrists  believe that experiences that occur during early childhood may make some people especially subject to depression later in life.

According to another theory, disturbances in the chemistry of the brain occur during depression. Brain  cells communicate with one another by releasing  chemicals called neurotransmitters. Some experts think  that certain neurotransmitters become underactive during  depression and overactive during mania. These changes in brain chemistry may be related to disturbances in the body’s internal rhythms.

Treatments for depression include hospitalization, psychotherapy, chemotherapy (drug), and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Hospitalization is an essential treatment for depressed patients who suicidal. In  psychotherapy, the psychiatrist tries to understand  (1) the childhood events that make a person subject to depression. Drugs called tricyclic antidepressants help more than two-thirds of all severely depressed patients. Lithium carbonate is a drug used in treating manic-depressive people. Electroconvulsive therapy is generally used only patients who fail to respond to other treatment. See also mental illness (affective disorders).