Dealing with your depression
Depression is more than just sadness. People with depression may experience a lack of interest and pleasure in daily activities, significant weight loss or gain, insomnia or excessive sleeping, lack of energy, inability to concentrate, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
Depression is the most common mental disorder. Fortunately, depression is treatable. A combination of therapy and antidepressant medication can help ensure recovery.
What You Can Do
Seek the right kind of social support
Social isolation increases the risk of depression. But it turns out that spending too much time discussing problems with friends could actually increase depression as well.
Exercise Helps Keep Your Psyche Fit
Exercise is an effective, cost-effective treatment for depression and may help in the treatment of other mental disorders.
Getting Help
Depression and How Psychotherapy and Other Treatments Can Help People Recover
Depression is a real illness and carries with it a high cost in terms of relationship problems, family suffering and lost work productivity. Yet, depression is a highly treatable illness, with psychotherapy, coping and cognitive-behavioral techniques, and medication.
as usual, great information. thanks for sharing
I think a main point also that people tend to overlook is to seek professional help and diagnosis.
People often do not think of going to the doctor for depression because to many people it's not a "physical disorder", so to speak, but getting earlier medical attention and getting the right diagnosis is actualky crucial, especially in the early stages of depression. I think mental health issues needs to be treated with the same magnitude as physical heath issues.
@dreamSmiles34
A great post! I really like how you included what you could do after showing what depression can look like, it makes this post very helpful and hopeful :)