There are a numerous of causes for
depression, which can be caused by stressful situations, major traumatic
events, chemical imbalances in the brain, or other troubles. It may be
related to genetic makeup, since people who are major depressive disorder
also tend to have family members who are depressed, even if these
people are not in contact. No matter what its reason, depression causes
significant emotional pain and is a trouble to many people's lives. It
affects their friends and family, makes them less productive at work and
more likely to call in ill or even lose their jobs, and it can cause
many other problems, as well.
Major depressive disorder can be more easily treated at the earlier stages:-
- The attentiveness of a person with major depressive disorder is impaired.
- A clinically major depressive disorder person is unable to feel pleasure. Even the things that used to please him before seem to have no result once he is into depression.
- The sleep of a depressed person is troubled. Once he wakes up in the middle of the night, he finds it hard to fall back to sleep again.
- A depressed person has no hunger for food. Even favorite foods seem to be bland.
- The depressed person still feels tired even after sleeping for long hours.
There
is a strong feeling of guilt, despair and helplessness in a depressed
person. There is an event that happens in the past that seems to nag the
person and caused him not to forgive himself or to experience very
hopeless.
At work, the major depressive disorder
person seems to decline in output. He no longer delivers the way he
used to. There is an amazing change in the character of the person that
other people might discover strange. Others tend to cut off themselves,
as if building a world of their own.