Year: 2019

How can a creative person get out of depression?

“A task is considered easy if there are several solutions,” – with this statement, we begin the conversation about depression in the life of a creative person. And since there are many ways to overcome depression, this, in my opinion, is, in principle , an easy task. Although there are probably people who consider depression to be a serious mental […]

Causes of Depression

When people experience anxiety, fear, sadness, and similar negative emotions for a long time, they often begin to suffer from depression. The cause of depression, or deep discouragement, may be the death of a loved one, divorce, job loss, or persistent illness. Depression also begins with a sense of worthlessness when people think that they are losers […]

What is work depression?

If the reluctance to go to work in the morning rolls daily, irritation towards colleagues goes off scale, and the labor process, which was previously a pleasure, causes disgust – this is a professional fatigue syndrome, the manifestations of which cause discomfort, lead to overstrain, psychological and physical exhaustion. A prolonged stay in a state of […]

What is depression?

We are all familiar with sadness and sadness, experience negative emotions for various reasons, or even without them, when we get out of bed “on the wrong foot”. Sometimes we even feel depressed. But depression is more than ordinary feelings. Depression Employees at the Mental Health Research Center at Australian National University define a depressive episode as a […]

Depression already does not want to live. What to do?

Unfortunately, today depression is the norm for many, because there are so many factors that affect our mood. This is a loss of interest in benefits, habitual activities, sometimes even in life. Depression is often characterized by functional physical disorders. Sometimes a tendency to depression can be a personal factor, for example, melancholy prone to such a disease. Depression is also typical of […]

Clinic and classification of depression

• Traditional classification : – endogenous depression – reactive and neurotic / psychogenic depression – somatogenic (symptomatic / organic) depression • The current classification is based on the severity and course of the disease : – mild / moderate / severe / psychotic – depressive episode or recurrent form of depression • The following forms are distinguished as special forms : – postpartum depression – atypical depression – age-related depression – […]

Depression – a real disease or a pronounced myth? We deal with our emotions

Recently, one group of researchers came to the conclusion that sadness is good for health. At the present day, according to statistics, every twentieth inhabitant of the earth of something sad. According to the World Health Organization, in about ten years, depression as a disease will come first, ahead of cardiovascular diseases and infections. So what is this disease? Doctors define depression as […]

Depression of exhaustion. Kielholz on Neurotic Depression

Of great interest is the work of Kjelholz (1959), devoted to depressive states. Along with other types of depression, the author identifies neurotic, which he includes in psychogenic and considers it as a depressive state with neurosis. He also distinguishes “depression of exhaustion”, which is based on pathological depressive development resulting from prolonged emotional overstrain. “Depression of exhaustion” […]

Postpartum anxiety conditions. Depression after childbirth

Although pregnancy and childbirth are usually joyful times for women, in some patients they are associated with significant emotional distress. In order to effectively solve these problems, it is important to timely identify risk factors for postpartum depression and effectively address them. Approximately 25% of patients who had a mental disorder after a previous birth relapse after a subsequent […]