CURE YOUR DEPRESSION
Options For Overcoming Depression
Mood disorders are problems with all of a person's emotional state is insufficient. There are two types: bipolar mood disorder unipolar. To represent them we use a spectrum of visual humor that goes from D (major depression) at the bottom of the M (mania) at the top.
We will review all areas of the spectrum of mood, but first identify what "normal" is. Someone with no mood disorder may change every day emotional states, but the mood of the person, continue your emotional life, are quite stable. More importantly, the person can manage his life day by day, and feels very good, irritable or just plain wrong, if something happens to cause these feelings.
unipolar disorder
People with depressed mood and simply unipolar depression.
Dysthymia
People with dysthymia, the mildest form of unipolar depression, tend to have a chronic case of "cockroach." Things are not bad, exactly, just do not enjoy much suffering and often feel they are going through the motions of life without taking much satisfaction in return. They often feel pessimistic or angry, "tired, indecisive, and / or bad about themselves and their lives, they also tend to have problems with appetite and sleep patterns.
Dysthymia tends to last and last and last, is a disorder in the long term, the problem of poor quality, on a person. Andrew Solomon describes the south Demon: An Atlas of Depression
mild depression is a gradualthing undermining people like rust weakens iron as physical pain that becomes chronic, it is unfortunate not only because it is intolerable that at the moment because it is intolerable that it should be known in the past and I am eager to know that in times to come.
Major depression
Major or "clinical" depression, however, usually comes in waves, which can last from two weeks to several years at a time. Between episodes of major depression many people feel "normal."
People with major depression have more severe symptoms that people with dysthymia. They do not feel bad about themselves, feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness, they do not feel bound them have difficulty thinking, concentrating and making decisions. They can cope with overwhelming guilt and inadequacy, he loses all motivation to continue their work and leisure, experience mental and physical laziness, desire to sleep all the time or trouble sleeping at all, and considering suicide. Other symptoms include
* Crying spells
* Poor hygiene (not bother to brush their hair, change clothes or wash regularly)
* Withdrawal from friends
* Lose weight because the food is not good taste or need to eat (often carbohydrates) and weight gain
* Chronic pain or pain without physical cause
* You excessive worry and guilt
* Sleep disorders: insomnia, waking up at night, wake up early and could not sleep, excessive sleep, or daytime sleepiness
* Feeling overwhelmed by tasks of daily living
Abraham Lincoln faced with major depressive disorder and was so consumed by thoughts of suicide was afraid to even a penknife.
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the entire human family, not a happy face on earth. I will always be better, I can not say I'm extremely not predict. To stay as it is impossible, I must die or be better I think.
Few people know how painful it is indeed a major depression. Those who suffer from floods drown in endless thought self-loathing as described by Lesley Dormen n Planet
One of the many things I like about the word "depression" if the vacuum is attached, as if the experience of depression is as absent as this seems to be inside from the outside. This is false. Depression is a place full of activity nightmare. It is an industrial town, one dedicated to a single product Megalopolis mental 24 hours, we-do-almost. You work as the muscle gnashing of teeth clamping misery employment (whether it is physically exhausting?) Proving shameful failure for you, again and again.
Bipolar disorder
Let's start with terminology: bipolar disorder and manic depression are the same.
The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, who created the first diagnostic system for psychology, introduced the "manic depression" term in common use, and not until 1994 that the name was changed for the disorder the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV) for "bipolar disorder" in an attempt to reduce the stigma that has come to be associated with him.
People with bipolar disorder experience both "down" state already described in the section above major depression and an "up" state "elevated, expansive or irritable" condition.
In a manic state, people feel
* Increased energy, flamboyance
* Reduced need for sleep (I think little to nothing)
* Inflated self-esteem, sometimes to the point of greatness
* Gab point that they sound "pressure" as if you can not stop talking
* Racing thoughts, which usually manifests itself by jumping from subject to subject, sometimes so fast that I did not make much sense.
* If short and easy distractibility (yes, it is much confused with ADHD)
* Poor Judgement, which often leads to decisions that are harmful, such as spending sprees, reckless sex (even when married), and dangerous risk-taking
* Poor impulse control, including saying things that cause impacts later
* Irritability and aggressiveness, including starting fights
* No weird thoughts anchored in reality (delusions) and misbehavior
* Increase Sex Drive
* Hallucinations (seeing, hearing or feeling things that are not really there)
Theodore Roethke Allan Seager poet relates the experience of anger in The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke:
"For no reason I felt really good. Suddenly I knew how to enter the life around me. I knew how it feels to a tree, a blade of grass, even a rabbit. No. I slept more. I walked with this feeling wonderful. One day I walked by a restaurant and suddenly I knew what it was like to be a lion I'm gone. in the restaurant and said counter-man, Bring me a steak. Do not cook without it.So he gave me the raw steak and I started eating. other customers meant that they were dismayed, look at me .. And I began to see that perhaps it was a bit strange. "
Bipolar II
People with bipolar II major depressive episodes, but hypomania - periods of euphoria, no extreme and ridiculously poor decision really angry. In the last decade, doctors and researchers have realized that many people with recurrent depression, who "resisted" treatment or can not be "cured" by normal means can also bipolar disorder. When doctors started treating these people with bipolar drugs, most of them have got better!
Symptoms tend to think that bipolar disorder, but it has never been a manic or hypomanic:
* Meds tend to "disappear" after a year or two (this is called "Prozac crap-out)
* The hypomania (feeling really good and become very productive) on higher levels of SSRIs or incentives
* Early onset - bipolar disorder tends to occur in adolescence, unipolar depression is not generally true, at least until the mid-20. Early onset, the more likely it is to be manic or hypomanic bipolar and has simply not happened yet
* Strong reactivity to the environment - to be "sluggish" in response to what is happening around you because you are indeed sensitive to
* You do not feel in winter
* Alcohol or drug use (rate of alcoholism among people with bipolar disorder is 60%)
* Exchange or repeated problems with depression, rather than just one or two episodes
* "Treatment resistant" depression - not better with standard antidepressant treatments, or even worse feeling that
* When depressed, symptoms are "atypical" (sleeping more than 10 hours per day, the appetite increases rather than downward, usually a diet low in fat and carbohydrate heavy, very low and energy)
Mixed States
Many people suffer from bipolar disorder mixed states, which means they are both depressed and hypomanic / manic at the same time. This tends to manifest itself as anger or irritability. The person has more energy than when in a pure vacuum, but still feels terrible, leading to "tense", aggressive and / or angry feelings and behaviors.
Genetics
What causes bipolar disorder, in particular, a challenge is that it is a hereditary disease, which requires an individual to take medication for life. It tends to worsen with age, partly because every time we have a manic episode, the brain becomes more prone to episodes of depression and manic-plus. Because hypomania, mania and feel good, it can be difficult to get people to take their medications, making them more prone to depression devastating.
Treatments
Since negative and "irrational" thoughts are like a big part of depression, treatment and education of the person who comes to think differently is one of the most effective treatments. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, which helps people identify and overcome irrational thoughts, proved particularly effective for depression, such as interpersonal therapy, which handles relations with others and ways to improve.
Despite the importance of therapy, there are several things that indicate that drugs could be a good idea:
1. Is there a family history of depression, and other family members are taken (and was helped by) drugs.
2. The man is so depressed that he / she is unable to do much work in therapy.
3. Individual is suicidal and needs improvement in symptoms as soon as possible.
Bipolar disorder, however, almost always need medication, and individuals must continue for life as a drug to prevent relapse. Although hypomania, mania and feel good, they increase the likelihood of depressive episodes, whereas they are controlled by medication.
People with bipolar disorder are often a "cocktail" of drugs, including one or more antidepressants (to increase serotonin and norepinephrine and, therefore, get rid of depression), a mood stabilizer (to remove hypomania and to treat mania and depression, especially treatment resistant depression), and sometimes, an antipsychotic drug to reduce levels of a neurotransmitter called dopamine, which causes delusions and hallucinations, extreme anger.
We will review all areas of the spectrum of mood, but first identify what "normal" is. Someone with no mood disorder may change every day emotional states, but the mood of the person, continue your emotional life, are quite stable. More importantly, the person can manage his life day by day, and feels very good, irritable or just plain wrong, if something happens to cause these feelings.
unipolar disorder
People with depressed mood and simply unipolar depression.
Dysthymia
People with dysthymia, the mildest form of unipolar depression, tend to have a chronic case of "cockroach." Things are not bad, exactly, just do not enjoy much suffering and often feel they are going through the motions of life without taking much satisfaction in return. They often feel pessimistic or angry, "tired, indecisive, and / or bad about themselves and their lives, they also tend to have problems with appetite and sleep patterns.
Dysthymia tends to last and last and last, is a disorder in the long term, the problem of poor quality, on a person. Andrew Solomon describes the south Demon: An Atlas of Depression
mild depression is a gradualthing undermining people like rust weakens iron as physical pain that becomes chronic, it is unfortunate not only because it is intolerable that at the moment because it is intolerable that it should be known in the past and I am eager to know that in times to come.
Major depression
Major or "clinical" depression, however, usually comes in waves, which can last from two weeks to several years at a time. Between episodes of major depression many people feel "normal."
People with major depression have more severe symptoms that people with dysthymia. They do not feel bad about themselves, feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness, they do not feel bound them have difficulty thinking, concentrating and making decisions. They can cope with overwhelming guilt and inadequacy, he loses all motivation to continue their work and leisure, experience mental and physical laziness, desire to sleep all the time or trouble sleeping at all, and considering suicide. Other symptoms include
* Crying spells
* Poor hygiene (not bother to brush their hair, change clothes or wash regularly)
* Withdrawal from friends
* Lose weight because the food is not good taste or need to eat (often carbohydrates) and weight gain
* Chronic pain or pain without physical cause
* You excessive worry and guilt
* Sleep disorders: insomnia, waking up at night, wake up early and could not sleep, excessive sleep, or daytime sleepiness
* Feeling overwhelmed by tasks of daily living
Abraham Lincoln faced with major depressive disorder and was so consumed by thoughts of suicide was afraid to even a penknife.
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the entire human family, not a happy face on earth. I will always be better, I can not say I'm extremely not predict. To stay as it is impossible, I must die or be better I think.
Few people know how painful it is indeed a major depression. Those who suffer from floods drown in endless thought self-loathing as described by Lesley Dormen n Planet
One of the many things I like about the word "depression" if the vacuum is attached, as if the experience of depression is as absent as this seems to be inside from the outside. This is false. Depression is a place full of activity nightmare. It is an industrial town, one dedicated to a single product Megalopolis mental 24 hours, we-do-almost. You work as the muscle gnashing of teeth clamping misery employment (whether it is physically exhausting?) Proving shameful failure for you, again and again.
Bipolar disorder
Let's start with terminology: bipolar disorder and manic depression are the same.
The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, who created the first diagnostic system for psychology, introduced the "manic depression" term in common use, and not until 1994 that the name was changed for the disorder the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV) for "bipolar disorder" in an attempt to reduce the stigma that has come to be associated with him.
People with bipolar disorder experience both "down" state already described in the section above major depression and an "up" state "elevated, expansive or irritable" condition.
In a manic state, people feel
* Increased energy, flamboyance
* Reduced need for sleep (I think little to nothing)
* Inflated self-esteem, sometimes to the point of greatness
* Gab point that they sound "pressure" as if you can not stop talking
* Racing thoughts, which usually manifests itself by jumping from subject to subject, sometimes so fast that I did not make much sense.
* If short and easy distractibility (yes, it is much confused with ADHD)
* Poor Judgement, which often leads to decisions that are harmful, such as spending sprees, reckless sex (even when married), and dangerous risk-taking
* Poor impulse control, including saying things that cause impacts later
* Irritability and aggressiveness, including starting fights
* No weird thoughts anchored in reality (delusions) and misbehavior
* Increase Sex Drive
* Hallucinations (seeing, hearing or feeling things that are not really there)
Theodore Roethke Allan Seager poet relates the experience of anger in The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke:
"For no reason I felt really good. Suddenly I knew how to enter the life around me. I knew how it feels to a tree, a blade of grass, even a rabbit. No. I slept more. I walked with this feeling wonderful. One day I walked by a restaurant and suddenly I knew what it was like to be a lion I'm gone. in the restaurant and said counter-man, Bring me a steak. Do not cook without it.So he gave me the raw steak and I started eating. other customers meant that they were dismayed, look at me .. And I began to see that perhaps it was a bit strange. "
Bipolar II
People with bipolar II major depressive episodes, but hypomania - periods of euphoria, no extreme and ridiculously poor decision really angry. In the last decade, doctors and researchers have realized that many people with recurrent depression, who "resisted" treatment or can not be "cured" by normal means can also bipolar disorder. When doctors started treating these people with bipolar drugs, most of them have got better!
Symptoms tend to think that bipolar disorder, but it has never been a manic or hypomanic:
* Meds tend to "disappear" after a year or two (this is called "Prozac crap-out)
* The hypomania (feeling really good and become very productive) on higher levels of SSRIs or incentives
* Early onset - bipolar disorder tends to occur in adolescence, unipolar depression is not generally true, at least until the mid-20. Early onset, the more likely it is to be manic or hypomanic bipolar and has simply not happened yet
* Strong reactivity to the environment - to be "sluggish" in response to what is happening around you because you are indeed sensitive to
* You do not feel in winter
* Alcohol or drug use (rate of alcoholism among people with bipolar disorder is 60%)
* Exchange or repeated problems with depression, rather than just one or two episodes
* "Treatment resistant" depression - not better with standard antidepressant treatments, or even worse feeling that
* When depressed, symptoms are "atypical" (sleeping more than 10 hours per day, the appetite increases rather than downward, usually a diet low in fat and carbohydrate heavy, very low and energy)
Mixed States
Many people suffer from bipolar disorder mixed states, which means they are both depressed and hypomanic / manic at the same time. This tends to manifest itself as anger or irritability. The person has more energy than when in a pure vacuum, but still feels terrible, leading to "tense", aggressive and / or angry feelings and behaviors.
Genetics
What causes bipolar disorder, in particular, a challenge is that it is a hereditary disease, which requires an individual to take medication for life. It tends to worsen with age, partly because every time we have a manic episode, the brain becomes more prone to episodes of depression and manic-plus. Because hypomania, mania and feel good, it can be difficult to get people to take their medications, making them more prone to depression devastating.
Treatments
Since negative and "irrational" thoughts are like a big part of depression, treatment and education of the person who comes to think differently is one of the most effective treatments. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, which helps people identify and overcome irrational thoughts, proved particularly effective for depression, such as interpersonal therapy, which handles relations with others and ways to improve.
Despite the importance of therapy, there are several things that indicate that drugs could be a good idea:
1. Is there a family history of depression, and other family members are taken (and was helped by) drugs.
2. The man is so depressed that he / she is unable to do much work in therapy.
3. Individual is suicidal and needs improvement in symptoms as soon as possible.
Bipolar disorder, however, almost always need medication, and individuals must continue for life as a drug to prevent relapse. Although hypomania, mania and feel good, they increase the likelihood of depressive episodes, whereas they are controlled by medication.
People with bipolar disorder are often a "cocktail" of drugs, including one or more antidepressants (to increase serotonin and norepinephrine and, therefore, get rid of depression), a mood stabilizer (to remove hypomania and to treat mania and depression, especially treatment resistant depression), and sometimes, an antipsychotic drug to reduce levels of a neurotransmitter called dopamine, which causes delusions and hallucinations, extreme anger.
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