Depression has recently become a fashionable diagnosis that women themselves attribute to the slightest manifestations of anguish, apathy or PMS. However, depression is not just a bad mood. This is a very dangerous disease, which manifests itself not only emotional manifestations, but also specific physical symptoms. It has already managed to gain epidemic proportions, become the most costly disease on the planet, set records on mortality and deserved to receive the title "Plague of the XXI century". Do not fall into the sad statistics of the consequences of depression will help debunk stereotypes about it and knowledge of the facts, which are usually silent.
- Depression in women is not a psychoemotional condition, but a disease. In neglected form, it has physical symptoms like those that occur in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, arthritis. In terms of prevalence, depression occupies a dangerous second place, giving way to the palm of primacy only heart disease. With severe forms of depression, women fall into crisis centers or even psychiatric hospitals. To a disease that too often becomes the cause of suicide, preventive measures and treatment should be applied exclusively by specialists. Self-medication and uncontrolled admission of advertised antidepressants can aggravate an already dangerous disease.
- Depression is inherited. Khandra and depressive disorders are of a genetic nature. This conclusion was made by scientists from Yale University after a survey of more than 300 American families diagnosed with "manic-depressive syndrome" (MDS). Many children also had a "depression gene" in such a family. Fortunately, genetic connection and depressive state are traced only in 40%. The remaining 60% are attributable to other factors. This allows us to say that in most cases depression can be treated.
- Women are more prone to depression than men. Studies by American scientists confirm that women tend to inherit a propensity for depression. The probability of becoming a victim of an alarming "gene" in them is 42%, while for men - only 29%. The development of depression in women is also affected by the physiological characteristics of the female body. It's about hormones. In childhood, both boys and girls suffer from depressive disorders the same way, but after entering puberty, girls become more sensitive, more receptive, and more dependent on mood swings. Psychological overload in women often ends in depression.
- Most often, women of childbearing age suffer from depression. This is due to physiological and psychological factors. During pregnancy, the female body is prone to sudden fluctuations in hormones, which causes a desire to pandemic in 10% of expectant mothers. Another 20% of women experience unexplained mood jumps after childbirth. 15% of women who have given birth have postpartum depression, caused by a sharp decrease in the hormonal level. The mental state of the young mother is further aggravated by the lack of full sleep, stress due to new responsibilities, hyperopiactivity for a newborn or intrafamily conflicts.
- Depression can be a symptom of another disease or appear after taking certain medications. Prolonged despondency is often the result of serious illnesses (for example, oncology, diabetes, hormonal disorders, Lyme's disease, etc.). And the seemingly harmless, at first sight, contraceptives, medications for insomnia, tranquilizers, etc., can cause symptoms of depression. Also the cause of prolonged anguish and sadness may be a lack of trace elements and vitamins in the body, alcohol, the use of drugs. Only an expert can make an accurate diagnosis.
- Depression is prone to recurrence. Stabilized mental state can be just a respite before new manifestations of depression. According to statistics, only one woman out of five who suffers from depression will never return to this condition. The rest experience relapse with enviable constancy. There can be many reasons for this. However, the main experts call self-treatment or an incomplete course of therapy. Do not underestimate depression. It belongs to those diseases, which must only take place under the supervision of a doctor.
- Depressive disorders are cured only in an integrated approach. Treatment of depression will be effective only in the case of a competent combination of a course of psychotherapy and individually selected doses of antidepressants. Only a specialist can determine the type and severity of depression. Asthenic deviations are treated with stimulants, anxiety - sedatives. Self-appointed psychotropic drugs can cause a backlash of the body, and drive the woman into an even greater depression. Overloading with medicines will increase the stress of an already depressed organism. Normalize the deep processes of the nervous system will help therapeutic programs of conversational therapy and professionally selected microdoses of neuroleptics and tranquilizers, as well as necessary in each case, vitamins and trace elements.
- Treatment of depression ends in recovery in 90% of cases. Timely appeal to specialists gives the chance to the majority of women to get rid of depression forever. Half of the patients who have applied for qualified care recover within six months. Ignoring the symptoms of depression or self-medication can cause extremely serious health problems, cause disability or even lead to death. Depression is not a sentence! She is a serious reason to take care of the health of her own soul.