About Depression

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It is said that in Japan there are about one million of depression patients. Depression is now a social phenomenon and it is spreading in various places.
People with depression are not necessarily weak minds.
Severe competing society and stress, various problems of human relationships and money, troubles of love, troubles of families, There are various depression factors. It is not unusual for people who look mentally strong being affected to have depression.
Depression is a mental illness. Mental illness is not to cure nature if you take medicine after seeing a doctor for a few minutes like going to internal medicine or gastroenterology to cure illness,
It is necessary to tackle treatments of mind after carefully seeing what kind of scar is attached to the mind. People want to conceal the scar on their hearts. Therefore, it is very difficult to understand from the surface.
So depression is easy to misdiagnose if you see only superficial symptoms.
Even a doctor who specializes in depression in psychiatry may have a misdiagnosis. You may be prescribed the wrong medicine.
In order not to make a misdiagnosis, it is important to carefully observe the scar on the patient's heart over time. To do that, we need to spend time counseling.
As depression patients increased, research on depression also advanced considerably.
A new approach different from depression treatment that has been regarded as common sense has been done and success stories have been appearing one after another.
Periodic counseling and therapist psychotherapy are said to dramatically change the situation that depression patients have been placed.
In this era, in such a world, it is necessary to face and work on depression seriously.
The present society is a society liable to depression. You do not know when a normal person will get depressed. Be careful about your daily life and it is important to prevent it from depression.
Support from the workplace is indispensable in order not to become depression and to recover from depression.
This site will investigate and feature on depression and its type, treatment method and efforts. We would be pleased if everyone will seriously work on depression.

About Depression

Depression and Sickness

Depression is not Sick
Depression is a mind state of sunset feeling sunk. If you feel sick and not recovering, it is called "depressive illness" and it is treated as a disease in psychiatry. What kind of disease is depression?
Definition of Depression
Currently, it is said that there are one million depression patients in Japan. Severe competing society and mental isolation, alienation feeling are driving people into depression. Depression can now be said to be a serious social problem.
Cause of Depression
What are the cause of depression that some people suffer for years without healing even they take medicines such as antidepressants?
Symptoms of Depression
It is easier to overcome by discovering depression early and eliminating the cause. For that, it is important to understand the symptoms well so that you can take measures as soon as possible after depression begins.
Things not Depression
Depression has various symptoms. However, many of the symptoms that are said to be caused by depression can occur even if it is not depression. Just seeing the symptoms is hard to distinguish from depression.
Difference between Distress and Depression
"Distress" and "depression" are different. Distressed are inherent in living, and distressed itself is not a bad thing. If you look at modern home environment, school, social environment etc, it is normal to distress.

Treatment of Depression

Psychiatric Depression
When you get depressed, you will usually see a doctor in psychiatry department. A psychiatrist is a doctor who consults the spirit, the disease of the cranial nerve and the mind. If you are diagnosed as depression by a doctor, you can prescribe medicines such as antidepressant.
Effect and Risk of Medicine
When going to psychiatry and being diagnosed with depression, the doctor would prescribe medication such as antidepressant. Each medicine has an effect, but at the same time there are undesirable side effects.
Merits and Demerits of Counseling
Recent emphasis on psychotherapy such as depression is counseling by psychological counselor. By receiving counseling, depression may be relaxed or recovered considerably.
Introspection Method
It is said to be effective for nurturing appreciation and joyful feelings is an introspection method. By relaxing slowly by the introspection method, we face confrontation with ourselves, regaining psychological stabilization and saying thankfulness comes to germinate.
Support by Workplace
Now the companies should tackle measures against depression at workplace. Preventing depression in the workplace and supporting patients who have become depressed is also important for maintaining and improving competitiveness as a workplace.
Change View of Past
Many people in depressed state regret the past and are suffering from the past. In order to overcome depression, they need to release themselves from trouble and condolence by changing how they see what happened in the past.
Willingness to Cure
How can you relieve symptoms when you get depressed? How can you overcome this disease? What is important and indispensable to alleviate symptoms and overcome depression is to have the will to 'cure' depression themselves.

Prevention of Depression

Meals and Lifestyle Habits
Depression is a illness that sinks deeply and can not be recovered for a long period of time. Depression is said to have various factors, but daily diet and lifestyle are said to affect depression.
Clean and Bright Environment
Depression is an illness that can not be recovered in a state where feelings have sunk. In order not to become depressed, go away from the environment that is prone to depression. It is important to keep your living space, the living environment bright, clean, so that you feel comfortable every day.
To Love
Giving love not only makes life more rich, but also helps to prevent depression. People who can emit the energy of love also have the power to overcome depression.
Switch the Feelings
In order to become hard to become depressed, it is important that you switch your feelings skillfully. By being able to switch feelings well, you can prevent mental similar conditions from lasting long.
Soft Brain
It is said that depression is abnormal in cranial neurotransmitters. Diseases related to hormones in the brain may indicate that the function of the brain itself is weakening. For prevention of depression, it may be necessary to activate the brain and soften her head.
How to Use Time
Depending on how you spend the day and how you use the time, your mental state changes greatly. By using good time, you can not only have a fulfilling day but also prevent the depression from getting worse.
Responsibility Range and to Forgive
When a person feel that responsibility was pressed to him/her unreasonably, or feel strongly that himself/herself or others are responsible, the person may become depressed. For prevention and countermeasures against depression, it is important to make your responsibility within your control and to have "forgiveness" feelings.
Self-suggestion
People who are prone to depression tend to point their ideas to the worse and worse direction. It becomes self-suggestion to keep thinking that it will get worse, bad things happen, and feeling goes down more.
Be Careful with Happy Things
Human relations and its changes may trigger depression. It is said that people become more prone to depression, especially when they have made the effort they wanted and realized, that results in undesirable changes in human relations.

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