Depression isn’t like a cold or allergies, it doesn’t just come and go. There is always a reason for someone to be diagnosed with this condition and it takes a little while for people to fall so low into this stage. Depression is a serious medical condition in which someone feels constantly sad, lazy and hopeless. It causes people to not be social, constantly drag themselves around miserably and think suicidal thoughts. Many people get into a state of sadness here and there but that doesn’t always mean they are depressed, it is a disease that controls someones emotions to make them feel no emotion, whether good or bad. Depression was previously called “melancholia” but is now known of as nine different forms of depression. Most people would only think that depression is just depression and that’s the final diagnostic but thats the broad term. Depression can be specified into nine different categories such as major depression, dysthymia, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, atypical depression, psychotic depression, bipolar disorder (manic depression), premenstrual dysphoric disorder and situational disorder. Some of those aren’t nearly as severe as others listed but each are taken equally as serious. The three most common forms of depression are major depressive disorder, dysthymia and bipolar disorder. Major depression also known as clinical depression is the most common form of depression. This type is combined with multiple symptoms that interfere with a persons ability to sleep, eat and socialize. This keeps someone from not motivating themselves to do anything. Major depression affects about 7% of the population over age 18 in the United States. About 2 percent of the United States population has dysthymia which causes a low mood over a long period of time. A subtype of major depression and dysthymia is atypical depression, following similar symptoms as those two. This form of depression is very common among the 9 types. Another subtype of major depression is psychotic depression, one in four people that are admitted into the hospital for depression are diagnosed to have this form of it. The symptoms for psychotic depression are very scary, it causes people to hallucinate, such as hearing a voice saying that they are worthless. Or they have a break in reality causing them to have delusions of intense feelings of failure and not being good enough. 85 percent of women in the US after giving birth feel sad, but about 16 percent of those women have a serious sadness that is proven to be postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is made up of feelings of extreme sadness, loneliness, thoughts of hurting the baby and self and having no connections to their baby. Postpartum depression can occur to any new mother, even the rich and famous ones. There are multiple celebrities who have suffered from this depression, such as Brooke Shields who talked about suicidal thoughts. Amanda Peet in which she blames it on the fact that she had a very euphoric pregnancy. Valerie Plame Wilson who constantly cried uncontrollably while
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Seasonal affective disorder also known as SAD, affects people during the changes in seasons. This causes people to lose energy and feel constant mood swings. If someone gets this in the fall and winter they tend to gain weight and hibernate. If they get it in the spring and summer they tend to lose weight due to poor appetite and depression. This isn’t just a case of the blues, most of the time people mistake it for that and don’t look for treatment because they don’t realize that it is …show more content…
This form of depression causes dramatic mood swings, from one moment one can feel overly happy to feeling depressed and down and once in a while they’ll have periods of normal too. The periods between these two dramatic emotions are most often called “episodes of mania”. It normally takes a few years before people are properly diagnosed with this illness and treated. For instance, Robin Williams, famous comedian and actor was found to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Later leading him to suicide. It is known that when Robin Williams took his own life he was in the middle of a manic episode. Suicide is a common act from severe depression, over two thirds of the 30,000 reported suicides in the United States each year relates back to
Seasonal affective disorder also known as SAD, affects people during the changes in seasons. This causes people to lose energy and feel constant mood swings. If someone gets this in the fall and winter they tend to gain weight and hibernate. If they get it in the spring and summer they tend to lose weight due to poor appetite and depression. This isn’t just a case of the blues, most of the time people mistake it for that and don’t look for treatment because they don’t realize that it is …show more content…
This form of depression causes dramatic mood swings, from one moment one can feel overly happy to feeling depressed and down and once in a while they’ll have periods of normal too. The periods between these two dramatic emotions are most often called “episodes of mania”. It normally takes a few years before people are properly diagnosed with this illness and treated. For instance, Robin Williams, famous comedian and actor was found to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Later leading him to suicide. It is known that when Robin Williams took his own life he was in the middle of a manic episode. Suicide is a common act from severe depression, over two thirds of the 30,000 reported suicides in the United States each year relates back to