What Causes Depression?
By srjac0902
@srjac0902 (1170)
Italy
November 29, 2011 12:15pm CST
Many times even though a person has been so much cared for yet she faces depression. No one can give a mathematical reason since man is sujective. It has been stated that The chemical function and the altered brain structure results into depression. When a person tends towards depression the neurotransmitters in him become unbalanced. A traumatic event, like undergoing humilation in front of the public, losing a beloved person, a very harsh treatment, can trigger the person towards depression. Consuming alcohol or substance abuse, hormonal changes, and the changes in the season can stimulate depression in the person. Some are sunny in the summer and gloomy during the winter. Some mothers get affected by depression soon after giving birth to the child. We can notice the symptoms of depression even in the children and the youth. Teachers may watch their children suffering depression but never care how to lead them to overcome. Some students may suddenly withdraw from studying and refuse to go to school. Some may try to give relief to persons from depression by introducing anti depressants which are very much negative.
We may come accross children not getting sleep in the night but just sitting and dozing.
The parents and teachers must watch over the children and stimulate them to participate with all activities with enthusiasm. The games and sports activities in the school, healthy compititions and group projects are very helpful to the children to deviate them from the risk of entering into depression. Sometimes we can watch the students never willing to play games but withdraw and sit under the shadow of the trees or sitting in the classroom.
Every person is social by nature either too much involvement or the total withdrawal affects the child adversely. But healthy friends can keep a person very much alive and involved. Cracking jokes and laughing on humors, kidding or playing with pets may save the persons from getting depressed. Some say that lonliness and depression are the twins.
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11 responses
@koperty3 (1876)
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29 Nov 11
Why you think anti depressant are negative? Do you have any prove that they are negative? Most of anti depressant are really good medicines and help many people. I know person who is talking it since many years and that person get back to normal life after proper treatment. Sometimes depression happens without any reason. This is just chemical imbalance one of the hormones serotonin. I can agree that some traumatic event can lead to depression or often women after giving birth got post natal depression but this is not the case with every person.
@srjac0902 (1170)
• Italy
29 Nov 11
Anti depressants leave you drowsy. When you get accostomed to it you cannot go without. You do need them, but as the time goes off your motivation power, your will power must gain strength and slowly then you will be able to reduce not of sudden but gradually. To come out of depression you need a mature disposition of mind to be receptive. Psyche influences a lot
@srjac0902 (1170)
• Italy
29 Nov 11
OK I agree and accept. You too may give some useful hints. It is true that not all medicines create or cause counter effects. What I intend to say is not to exceed the limit nor to be a slave of medicines forever.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
29 Nov 11
First of all: not every person is social. Autistic people are surely not and you find them in all kind of degrees. Also there is a big difference between the level of being social or needing other people between each individual.
Those who like to think, need space, room, freedom, time for themselves, prefer rest about the never ending noise of talking people, screaming tv sets etc and are able to keep themselves busy, don't need other people that much either.
Second: there are many different kind of depressions. I hear so many people say they are depressed but they are not in reality. Just being down, feeling depressed once in your life is not what I call suffering for depressions.
A depression is a disorder in the brains, it's mostly genetic and it's hard to fight against time after time. Since you can feel it come already and if you are not able to underpressure it you can be gone for a long time.
Loneliness and depression can go hand in hand but not the way most people think. It's the feeling of being lost that kills you and makes you feel lonesome. Even if you are surrounded by lovely, caring people.
If that feeling pops up, mostly without any reason, even if you feel very happy, it is as if the world ends an nobody can reach/touch you anymore.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
29 Nov 11
PS if you really think a pet, kids or job will keep your depression away you are wrong. Depressed is depressed, you stay in bed and will definately not come out to feed the dog or your kids. Only if you suffer from real depressions you know this is true.
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@srjac0902 (1170)
• Italy
29 Nov 11
Love has great power. When you are active, when something pulls your heart you do care and pay attention to. Then you will not fall into depression easily. Even if you fall you rise up and will not be a victim. But nothing is absolute. Man is subjective. A kind of particular treatment will not work in all by yeilding same or uniform results.Every man is unique
@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
29 Nov 11
Well, many things can cause depression, and there are some people who naturally have it, me being one of them.
I have had depression since I was a child, and I had it because I got sick so much. I had a few other problems too, but that was the worst of it.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
30 Nov 11
true humans are both social and individual beings
this varies to a certain degree each person but nobody avoids interaction completely
maybe they are quiet and avoid crowds, but not necessarily avoiding 1 on 1 conversation although they might feel like running away the second someone talks to them. I used to have this. it didn't feel good, interaction I mean, but I get used to it and although I have very little friends, I definitely am not shutting off the world around me
not sure about anti depressant, I am not prescribed any because it's mild. I have anxiety too, not mild and not dangerous but also not prescribed anything. maybe it's a good thing, I don't know I just try to cope up with it with any method I can. I have pets, I talk to friends, I go out to nature (lesser in winter because it depresses me more the weather) I meditate and I listen to relaxing music. Reading interesting books can take my mind off things and slowly I just let things be not worried / depressed as much,.
@gaea23 (252)
• Philippines
30 Nov 11
Thanks, you discussed it well. I am learning from your discussion and it helps me understand why depression once in a while felt.
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
29 Nov 11
That is an excellent discussion. I have been suggesting to people suffering from depression (whatever the causes were), to practise mindfulness meditation. I have found that to be very helpful in getting rid of the depression, and see life in a peaceful and more positive ways. In the first place, meditation relieves the mental as well as physical stresses.
@GemmaR (8517)
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29 Nov 11
I think that a chemical imbalance, along with one or more psychological triggers, is always the cause of clinical depression. Far too many people shrug it off as simply feeling down, when in actual fact there may be a lot more to it than that. Too many people tell their depressed friends to "pull themselves together" even though that is quite possibly the least helpful thing that you could say to somebody with depression, because it simply makes them feel as though they are even more worthless than they might have currently been feeling already.
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
29 Nov 11
Wow, I would agree with your 100% on this posting. I might have depression on myself too, and I have this tendency too afraid to talk to new person, someone I barely knew, or someone I don't know entirely. I won't participate their group nor I would like to join them, since I might not have anything to say at all. Actually, I would like to make friends, maybe because of my speech skill wasn't good at all, I might afraid that I would humiliate myself in front of everyone.
@sam023 (42)
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29 Nov 11
What really causes depression is lack of self confidence at least that's what i think.
