But
when you are "naturally"
sad, you don't come to a complete
stop. You are able to take part in
activities even though "your
heart isn't in it". And when
something good happens, you can still
feel happy about it.
To
be naturally sad is therefore not
a disease. Sadness and bad moods will
pass. Even if you are experiencing
serious grief, it will affect you
less with time. But perhaps your grief
will never completely go away. You
can do something yourself to help,
and support from your family and friends
will also help you. For you need to
be with others and speak with other
about your problems, in order to get
better.
The
disease depression
The disease depression - also called
clinical depression - is a serious
disease, where the depressive feeling
becomes chronic and actually gets
its own life. If you are suffering
from depression, you are no longer
in control over your mood or feelings.
When you are depressed about almost
everything, almost all the time, almost
every day for several weeks or maybe
months, you are suffering from depression.
The depressed condition of your mind
continues day after day and affects
all areas:
- feelings
- thoughts
- behaviour
- the body's functioning
In the most severe cases, a depression
can be life threatening, because you
run the risk of coming to a complete
stop, losing your appetite and not
feeling thirst. You can also be feeling
so low that you will contemplate suicide.
It
is therefore important that people
who suffer from depression receive
treatment. By providing help with
this, you can save another person's
life. And if you think that you yourself
are suffering from depression, you
can actually save your own life by
going to see your doctor and receiving
treatment.
Different
courses
Different courses of depression are
distinguished in the following way:
- A single depressive
episode
- Periodical depressions
- Chronic depression
- Bipolar suffering
(manic-depressive disease)
- A single depressive
episode is a depression which
will pass and in most cases doesn't
recur.
Periodic
depressions are reoccurring depressions,
where a depression will recur after
a period of time feeling well. In
some cases, one depression can be
followed directly by another without
having any clear periods of being
well.
In
very few cases will a depression become
so prolonged that it becomes chronic.
In
bipolar suffering, depression and
mania interchange. You are up and
down between to extremes, hence the
name bipolar ("between two poles").
A common depression can similarly
be called unipolar, i.e. when it only
concerns one "pole".
Clinical
Depression - Severity
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