Causes and symptoms of major depressive disorder

There are many reasons that you could suffer from major depressive disorder. It is a State of mind when individual thought and his brain pour into the series of negative thoughts. The victim developed the tendency to be quiet and introverted, are some of the thoughts that always surround his brain as suicide, break things out of anger and agony, hurting others and hurting themselves. These people are very aggressive and could harm anyone no matter how close can be friends, family or colleagues.

Once a person begins to feel the symptoms of depressive disorder, he or she keeps digging in until someone helps take them advantage of the situation. This person is unable to differentiate between relationships, behaviours and thoughts. They want everything just to get rid of their lives or do something terrible which affirm their sense. In most cases, these people developed the criminal mentality and they begin to make the crime without purpose or reason. They can kill anyone or even to kill without reason.

There are many terrible aspects of depressive disorder and there are some disorders that are associated with mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, because it completely prevents the victim's life into a living hell. Soon, the victim is walking in the dark side of life and the suffering of the agony of the human being. It stops feeling for others and giving importance any in their entourage. They just kept on thought and thought and finally enter the profound silence mode where they even stop to eat or drink. That could be the worst situation for anyone suffering from depression disorder which not only makes the mentally to retirement, but also their families and friends.

Sometimes, those who have this type of depression can certainly find the sounds or may notice other activities that might be not related with real life. This step type is associated with depression; as you also learn to consider this person suffering from such disorders, develop a sense of self-hatred among them. A number of cases has also said that, when someone is actually watching TV, they consider that it must be transfer form any uncertain emotions in their brain. In addition, you will find critics indicator called psychosis, means that you are outside the sensation to associated perception of truth. It is deadly when they are all combined together. If you or maybe others is actually faced with this scene associated with atypical depression, including paranoia, psychosis, or other types of imagine odd, it may require a specialist to treat this disorder and put the victim in a normal state of mind.

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When depression really starts?

The depression doesn't start from nowhere. There are usually life experiences that are the cause. Here is the theory I found useful in self-help treatment. It helps to deal with some repeating patterns of your behavior that you may not like and also it may help you to find out what really causes your depression.

In the following theory there are 3 types of states:

- Conscious - things that happen to you and around you that you aware of (you are aware that you're reading this text).

- Subconscious (while reading this text you're also seeing the tip of your nose though after I wrote it the knowledge of the fact that you see it too jumped to your consciousness) - some things that happen to you right now but your mind isn't occupied with them - same with walking or eating - you don't need to think about each your next move - you just put one leg in front of the other or manipulate your fork and knife and food.

- Unconscious. This is going to be a bit long but I hope to explain it. Please ask questions if you find something confusing.

Let's say there's a person who's constantly late to his job. No matter what he does to avoid being late in some way or another he slows down. He blames himself and starts overeating because this helps him feel better. After awhile he realizes he's overweight and blames himself again and promises himself to stop overeating. This causes stress too. He becomes annoyed and starts yelling at his family members and later on he hates this behavior of his too etc etc etc the poor man becomes a time bomb. What he should think about is why he actually was always late to his job. The reason is not obvious. Let's now return to what unconscious state is.

When we're young our mind registers all the incoming signals and tries to classify them. Like our ancestors tried to classify predator/lightning/darkness/... things into dangerous and fire/apples/fresh water/sex into safe things. In a baby's mind mother is in good things because she means safety. On the other hand a dog that scared him will be in bad things. But not just that particular dog but any dog = danger. Let's imagine this child and his parents drove somewhere and suddenly got into a car crash. What would he feel and see? He'll probably feel dizziness and maybe itching in his belly, he'll see his crying mother and also the sun shining and reflecting in a nearby puddle. He'll hear the birds singing. The kid grows up and some day he may go down the street and see a crying woman. He has just had lunch and his belly itches. The day is bright and the sun shines and sun-rays reflect in a puddle and the birds are singing in the nearby park. Suddenly for no obvious reason the man suffers panic attack and runs away. Why? Because just now he's experienced the things that his mind long ago considered linked to danger. This is what his unconscious mind told him.

Now let's get back to the guy who's always late. When he was a kid his mother gave him sweets every day. He had a girlfriend who he always gave half of his sweets because he wanted her to like him and be his friend. One day the little girl was late and the kid was hungry so he waited and waited for her but then ate all sweets. When the girl came and found that out she first burst in tears and then went to the boy's mother and told her he's the one who broke the window. The mother was angry and spanked her son. He never told a girl a thing just stopped seeing her. Now he's a grown up man who forgot this story and now works in the office. He used to be friends with one of his colleagues but once he found out that this colleague has told their boss that the man doesn't pay enough attention to his work. What is the man's reaction? You're right. Each time he goes to job he unconsciously wants to avoid it and that makes him always be late.

Now what should be done in order to break this circle? First of all if you have some behavior of yours that you don't like first of all try to register all the feelings you're having: itchiness, crying spells, etc. Then close your eyes and try to think about your feelings and find any association that comes to your mind. Don't try to seek for it just relax and let your mind show you an answer. If you remembered some situation try to live it again - to feel it. Don't fight your tears or angriness or whatever feelings you have. Express them in the way you should in that situation of long ago. This may make you want to reconsider your feelings about some present situations and thus change the program. Understand that whatever happens to you is not your fault. It is your unconscious mind that dictates your reactions. However now you've realized why and now the things from the unconscious moved to consciousness means you can control them!

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Principles of depression

Low mood, Anxiety, Delusions, Memory and concentration problems, Loss of interest in things you used to enjoy - one may think these are no big deal but just a normal reaction to stress at work, overdue bills, taxes, family quarrels or whatever.

However, when these symptoms are followed by sleep problems (either insomnia or oversleeping), eating disorders (increase or decrease in appetite), constipation, period irregularities, decreased libido, constant feeling of tiredness - one of the most possible diagnosis’ is depression.

It is obvious that to get over negative symptoms of a sickness one should understand it's origin. In this post I would like to quote one of the clearest yet simple explanations on how depression occurs I've ever read:

"The stress system relies on two key hormones: adrenaline and cortisol. In short, adrenaline works in the short term, while cortisol has large momentum and works in the long term.

It is important to realize that the stress system can also be activated if your brain perceives danger or any kind of threat. In the first stage, this triggers the release of adrenaline into the bloodstream to prepare the body for action. As a result, your heart beats faster, you begin to sweat, your breath becomes shallower, and your senses become more acute. This is the so-called fight or flight response to the stressor event, and was quite adequate during most of our evolution, when these events were quite specific and usually short-term. Problems with chronic stress arise because in a modern society we cannot escape easily from the stressor, be it an overbearing boss, crowded cities, or traffic jams.

The effect of the stress hormones on the brain is curious and not what you might expect. The initial surge of adrenaline will make you feel good, though not quite in the same way as with serotonin. The difference is that adrenaline will make you feel euphoric and accelerated, whereas serotonin produces a state which could be described as that of quiet bliss. However, as far as the communication between neurons is concerned, adrenaline can compensate for low levels of serotonin. There is, alas, a serious drawback of adrenaline: together with it comes cortisol, the yang of the stress hormones.

Just as your levels of adrenaline start coming down, so rises the amount of cortisol flowing through your veins. Moreover, cortisol has a much larger momentum than adrenaline, which means that even though it builds up slowly, it also takes a long time to go back to normal. And should you constantly be engaging in activities which require adrenaline, so will your levels of cortisol slowly increase. Together with the rise of cortisol and the decrease of adrenaline, come the nasty side-effects of the stress hormones. It is at this moment that you feel bad, anxious, and having lots of negative thoughts.

To complete the picture of how chronic stress causes depression, there remains one critical factor to be explained: high-levels of stress hormones will over time diminish your brain's ability to produce serotonin. The exact mechanism by which this happens is still subject to discussion, but the general consensus is that sleep is the key. The reason is that higher levels of stress hormones mean less sleep, which is fundamental for the brain to restore its ability to produce serotonin".

from: Demystifying Depression by Name of Feather

If you came this far, I hope you have understood the basics of how the depression build-up works: More stress hormones mean less happiness hormones which means depression. Now as we know the roots of evil we may proceed to cure methods.

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