DEPRESSION IS A DISEASE

                                                    

 DEPRESSION

People who are sensitive to cruelty and injustice, who are more likely to feel overwhelmed. This is the conclusion reached by scientists. Their test results showed that hundreds of people who were characterized by prosocial behavior, a desire to sympathize with the offended and a sharp reaction to injustice in society suffer from depression. Other scientists had obtained similar results when trying to figure out the reasons for the phenomenon of reclusive acute social withdrawal. At the beginning of the experiment, they used a game test to determine the degree of empathy of the students and analyzed their brain activity. Young people were asked to invest imaginary money in risky or dishonest ventures. Prosocial guys rejected such options, while their brains gave out a vivid emotional reaction. The
individualists reacted much more calmly.
A year later, researchers analyzed the same group and found clear symptoms of depression in students who showed an overly emotional response in the first
experiment. This distinction between empaths and callous individualists persisted even with regard to age, gender, and social group. someone wrote that the most stressful professions in the world are female.
 
However, psychology experts warn that it is extremely dangerous to draw global conclusions. Both studies focused on a group of young people between the ages of 18 and 26, as well as those parts of the brain that fully mature only by the age of 30. This age group is characterized by a reduced level of stress resistance. Perhaps the tendency to despondency lies in the overly acute reaction of young people to the imperfection of this world and the inability to remake it. 
Depression can be caused by the traumatic environment of a city, country or family, as well as frequent use of gadgets.
 
Depression is not just a long-term bad mood. This is the mental disorder that needs to be treated. According to the world health organisation (WHO), depression affects more than 300 million people of all ages worldwide. Severe forms of depression lead to suicide. This makes depression especially dangerous for young people: suicide is the second leading cause of death for people aged 15 to 29 years. Moreover, depression is a major cause of disability. 

Now why depression is a disease, what are its causes and how to deal with it?

 
What is depression?
 
 Depression is not just a long-term bad mood. This is a mental disturbance, that is, a disease that must be treated. How to deal with depression? There are known effective treatments for depression, but according to the WHO, less than half of those who suffer from it receive such treatment in the world. And in some countries, less than 10% of cases are receiving treatment. One of the reasons for this situation is social stigmatization, that is, the use of labels. There are many stereotypes in society that make people hide their depression:

Why people hide their depression
This is a weakness that is ashamed to talk about.

• "No one wants such people, nobody wants to be with psychos."
•  "I will be called psychopath."
•  "People will make fun of me";
• "May be I don't look like depressed person."
• "I'm scared that I will be known as crazy."
• "I will lose my job if they find me disturbed."
• "I will be force to take antidepressants" 
• "All of a sudden it's incurable."

People are silent and hide their condition. They need help and treatment that they do not receive. After all, the body is not always able to cope with the disease on its own, it can progress and lead to a sad outcome

What causes depression?

A negative event such as the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job or suffering from a severe somatic illness - or severe and prolonged stress, can sometimes trigger a depressive episode, but sometimes depression can occur spontaneously. without any apparent cause.

Other interacting factors that influence the onset and progression of depression include genetic factors, changes in hormone levels, certain medical conditions, stress, pain, or difficult life circumstances. Each of these combined factors can bring about changes in brain physiology and difficulty adapting to external and internal events, leading to signs and symptoms of depression.

Isolated factors are unlikely to cause depression. We can easily imagine a “downward spiral” of events leading up to depression: imagine your marriage breaking down, you will likely feel low in humor, so you will avoid friends and family. This sequence of related events can make you feel worse and can complicate your depression.

 Let’s take another example. From what is known from today’s scientific research, depression has a genetic component, but so far it has not been possible to identify a specific gene that causes the onset of a depressive episode. Many studies (including population-based studies and approved research) have shown that the likelihood of developing depression is tripled for people with depressed parents or siblings, or compared to people who do not have a relative affected by depression. In other words, relatives of families in which depression occurs are often prone to mental disorder. But for the current development of mental disorder, other factors must be present as well.

Therefore, it's biopsychosocial and its development varies from person to person.
This means that, to explain the development of depression, we must consider the interaction between biological and psychological factors. Both aspects are like two sides of the same coin, and this interaction of psycho-social and neurobiological factors is important not only in the development of depression, but also for all other mental disorders. These factors can interact at the level of resilience, promotion, maintenance or resolution.