Imagine feeling sad all the time, feeling like your life is falling apart, feeling like your strength is gone. ANDl completely low mood, no desire to get out of bed or do anything during the day.
Feeling alone and unspecial despite knowing that there are many people around you. Feeling that life is meaningless and not worth living.
You have to use all your willpower to get out of bed and perform your day-to-day obligations, and you do it only because you have no other option.
What do I live for? What is my purpose in life? So I ‘m good? What have I done with my life? These are questions that cross your mind over and over again, but no matter how many times they repeat themselves, you never find any answer. If perhaps you find some, they are negative for you.
I live to harm others or only hinder others, my life lacks purpose, there is no objective or goal to reach. I am not good at anything, I have not even known how to manage my own life, I am a zero on the left, I have not achieved anything favorable in my life.
We could define depression as that feeling of acute sadness that covers our entire being. That feeling that takes over us and takes away all the desire to move forward. As I said before, it is that feeling that takes away our desire to live.
According to the DSM-5, depression is a sad, empty or irritable mood, accompanied by somatic and cognitive changes that significantly affect the functional capacity of the individual.
These episodes of sadness usually last more than two weeks and involve clear changes in affect, cognition and neurovegetative functions and interepisodic remissions.
Main characteristics of depression
Depression usually presents itself in different forms, but those mentioned above are the most common. Due to these ways of thinking, some people decide that they have no reason to live. They decide that it would take a huge weight off their loved ones’ shoulders if they would just get out of the way.
Depression removes the ability to see love in others and in ourselves; It’s as if that light goes out inside us. How could a person live without love?
People with depression stop feeling empathy, The only thing they usually think about is the great sadness that invades them.
Can you notice depression?
Although depression tends to have a marked sadness, the way in which it is assumed depends on the personality of the individual.
There are people who can smile even if they suffer from major depression, some may even immerse themselves in work more than they usually do.
But all people with this terrible disease have in common the way they feel when they are alone. We should not underestimate the sadness of others no matter how dramatic it may seem. What may be really silly for you may be the cause of a big illness for someone else.
There are different types of depressive disorders, which, although they have some traits in common, also have some different characteristics.
What we can be sure of is that depressive disorders are a serious illness to which attention must be paid.
This disease can present a functional impairment even greater than a physical disease. As time goes by, deaths caused by this disease are increasing greatly. This is why it is of great importance that we all know some of its characteristics so that we can discover it in time.
Type of depressive disorders
The DSM-5 classifies at least six types of depressive disorders:
Disruptive dysregulation disorder
major depression,
Persistent depressive disorder or dysthymia,
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Substance or medication induced depression
Depressive disorder due to physical illness.
Although All of these disorders have a sad mood in common are differentiated according to duration, temporal presentation or supposed etiology.
Conclusion
Depression disorders are very serious diseases with a really high death rate in our environment.
It is vitally important to learn to identify your symptoms to seek the necessary help in time. An ignored depression disorder can be almost as catastrophic as cancer because, like that disease, if it is not treated in time: its end can be death.
As a society it is our duty educate ourselves about mental illness in order to provide our help when requested.
Ignorance is the main path to death and the acquisition of knowledge will bring us back to life.
