What is the depression?

Depression – is a condition accompanied by constant feeling of apathy, melancholy and alarm. Quite often people understand depression as a short-time mood decrease in connection with any unpleasant event of life. However such episodes of mood decrease in our life are normal reaction – the stress conditions that are regularly experienced by all healthy people. The low mood within several days may become into a strong stress, such as for example: dismissal from work, divorce, illness or death of close one. The mood can be quickly normalized after the solving the stressful situation. But if an occasion is not so important, and the person worries because of it, it can be a sign of the depression beginning. Also the strong stress may probably provoke the beginning of the depression, so if the stress has occurred for a long time, and the person cannot come in to the senses eventually. There are many reasons for the depression development: family problems, relations breaking with the loved one, problems at work etc. With the depression the person shows the indifferent relation to the reality, a sense of guilt, impossibility to have the pleasure from a life and aspiration to loneliness. At the ancient times such condition of the person named a melancholy, today such condition we name depression. In the developed countries the depression is the basic psychological problem. At depression the person has a feeling of despair or hopelessness, absence of self-esteem, have no interest to the surrounding. Also at the depression physical symptoms, such as low appetite, sleeplessness and loss of sexual energy are observed. Depressive frustration is disease which changes the relation of the person to a life and activity. Human with depressive frustration has grief, weariness and becomes irritable. There is nothing interesting and attractive for him, that was before. Depression as disease requires the serious treatment; otherwise the illness can proceed for years. Very often the depression is the reason of suicide. The world organization of public health services declared that by 2020 the depression will be the second, after heart-vascular diseases and the deaths reasons all over the world. About 200 million a year lose their work ability all over the world because of the depression. Now depression became more dangerous, than the asthma and diabetes. The person suffering from depression has twice more chance to die of other diseases. In Europe more people die because of the depression than car accidents cases.