DEPRESSION

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DEPRESSION

Depression

Constant and persistent sensation of deep sadness and hopelessness.

It affects a 5% of the western population.

Causes

Of unknown origin, in spite of the continuous investigations.

One assumes that it appears like result of a combination of genetic and environmental factors, half-full by complex and subtle alterations in the substances that regulate the cerebral nervous activity.

Signs and symptoms

Sadness.

Reduced interest in which it happens around to his.

Lack of personal cleanliness, untideness in dressing.

Loss of weight or gain without making diet.

Loss or increase of the appetite.

Insomnia, typically to wake up precocious, or problems of dream.

Fatigue.

Sensation of culpability.

Incapacity to concentrate or difficulty to make decisions.

Irritability.

Dolores general.

Thoughts of suicide.

Factors of risk

Familiar history of depressions.

Alcoholism.

Failures in the work or the personal or married relations.

Compulsive, rigid, perfeccionista or independent personality.

Lack of emotividad or annoyance.

Death or loss of a dear being.

Changes in the work or of destiny.

Surgery, like a mastectomía for example.

Important diseases.

Vital stages, like the beginning of the maturity.

Medicine use like the benzodiazepinas, bloqueantes reserpina beta-adrene'rgicos or.

Some diseases like the diabetes, the hormonal cancer of páncreas or anomalies.

Prevention

Psycotherapy of support.

Communication with relatives and friends.

Education of relatives to assume the problem.

Diagnosis and treatment

DIAGNOSIS:

The diagnosis is made by means of the clinical interview, supported in specific questionnaires.

TREATMENT:

Psycotherapy together with medication.

Antidepressants.

Lithium for cases of associate odd habit.

Ansiolítica medication (anti-anxiety).

Sedatives to prevent the insomnia.

Hospitalization in severe cases.

Electroshock in serious cases can save the life.

Debilitating exercise and balanced feeding.

Complications

Suicide.

To be kind to the warnings that the patient does, they can be certain (it is not truth that when the patients announce its intention to commit suicide indicates that they do not go in serious).

Psicótica conduct or hallucinations.

Ridiculous personality or conducts impropias.

Prognosis

It is a chronic disease.

If a treatment of precocious form is restored and the disease is followed very strictly, it can send, although always relapse risks exist.

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