It is a disorder of animistic state that consists of feeling sad, unhappy, melancholic and collapsed. These symptoms should last for weeks or months.
Depressed people show very high levels of cortisol and several chemical agents that act in the brain, these levels can be high for hereditary reasons, loss of a loved one, substance use, loss of a job among others.
People with depression usually spend the day irritable, decreases the interest and pleasure, weight loss, insomnia, motor slowing, indesicion, decreased ability to concentrate, thoughts of death and suicidal idea.
There are several types of depression, such as:
-Distimia: The symptoms are long-term, but do not prevent the activity of people. It can also be recurrent, that is, appear more than once in life.
-Deterioration: interfere in the ability of people to work, study, sleep, eat and enjoy activities that, under normal circumstances, should be pleasant. Depression usually occurs once, but it is a disease that usually causes relapses throughout life.
-Prepair postpartum: manifests with a little sadness and anxiety. Some mothers suffer a total rupture, called postpartum psychosis. The reasons why it occurs are not very clear. It can be stress, the hormonal imbalance produced during pregnancy and subsequent delivery.
The environment that surrounds a person suffering from depression is essential to achieve their rehabilitation. The understanding and affection of relatives and friends is important, as is patience, since the lack of desire and motivation of the sick can cause despair. Suggest and not order activities, propose and not impose conversations.
The treatment against depression is of two types: pharmacological and psychotherapy.
-Pharmacological treatment with antidepressants: Antidepressants are used to correct imbalances in the levels of brain chemicals, especially serotonin, a brain chemical that transmits messages in the area of the brain that controls emotions, body temperature, appetite, Hormone levels sleep and blood pressure. Antidepressants act by increasing serotonin levels in brain cells. Each class of antidepressants does it in a different way.
-Psychotherapy: Its purpose is to help the patient to know himself better and change his bad ways of thinking, feeling and acting.
According to Dr. Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, and a study carried out by the University of Navarra (SUN), it is confirmed that the consumption of fast food (Excess in food or drink, and disordered appetite of eating and drinking) there is a relationship with the Depressive disorder, and the study concluded that the more chatara meal you eat, the more risk of producing depression.
The University of Montreal was directed by Dr. François Lespérance in a study that investigated omega 3 fatty acid supplements and concluded that they are very effective for people with major depression, ie pathological.
Meditation, has been of great progress and improvement in depression, relaxation methods, and has been proven by scientists at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), who conducted a study that consisted of teaching more than 408 students to meditate following the mindfulness technique and the result was that the symptoms of depression showed a great reduction, in only six months.
