Depression lies beyond the broad spectrum of accustomed human unhappiness. In some cases, depression is considered a normal human emotional response to abnormal circumstances including the death of a parent, spouse or a child. In these situations the expectation is one of an inevitably slow and painful recovery. When mood plunges past the lowermost boundary of abject human unhappiness with no obvious social or physical cause, doctors say that a person is organically depressed. This definition justifies the use of special mind altering chemicals or the application of Electro Convulsive Therapy.
A depressed person experiences alterations in the patterns of sleep. They have difficulty getting off to sleep and wake frequently. A striking feature of depression is early morning waking and often the mood cycles on a daily basis with despair at its height earlier in the day.
The concentration and memory of the depressed person suffer also. So do levels of energy and drive. Delusions in relation to innocent bodily experiences loom large. Depressed people become very negative and nihilistic and have difficulty seeing any future both for themselves and others.
When depression is at its worst, ideas of suicide and attempted suicide dominate. It is not unusual for very depressed men to kill their families and then themselves. About 20 per cent of the adult population experience symptoms of depression at some stage of their lives.
In spite of public opposition to the medical management of mental illnesses such as depression, the use of antidepressant drugs and Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy has miraculously changed the morbid course of many depressive illnesses. Medication restores the mood to normal within weeks and ЕСТ produces a similar response in days. Without treatment almost 40 per cent of severely depressed people successfully suicide. With treatment the suicide rate drops to five per cent.
Home Remedies
Despite an “organic” basis for its cause, depression and suicide plague aging individuals with chronic illness who lack supportive social networks. A wide range of stresses can plunge such people into the depths of suicidal depression. Prevention includes the adoption of an overtly satisfying series of social involvements. Bowling Clubs, The Senior Citizens, affiliation with churches that place an emphasis on fellowship, specific illness support groups and continued qualitative involvement with family affairs are all buffers necessary to keep a life threatening depression at bay.
“Furthermore it must be said that the key variable in a lot of depression related suffering could be a lack of sex. There is still a gaping hole in the literature on this point because sex is still a taboo subject in this and many other societies.
Sigmund Freud explored anxiety in relation to human fear, but no great pioneer has explored the psychological manifestations of human frustration and failure in the field of sexuality. As for the treatment of depression, shock treatment is very reminiscent of orgasm.
And of course antidepressant medication may well mimic the brain’s chemical changes which occur during and after acts of satisfying sexual intercourse. Posterity may well view shock treatment and antidepressant medication as the poor man’s substitute for deep and meaningful acts of sexual gratification.”
On a more mundane note L tryptophan – a naturally occurring amino acid elevates the mood of mildly depressed people. It has also been used as a mild sedative and a sleeping potion. Controversy erupted in and around the deaths of 20 people in the United States from the Eosinophilic Myalgia Syndrome. This syndrome was associated with the use of L tryptophan and the deaths were traced to the contamination of a batch of L Tryptophan manufactured by a Japanese company. Dietary sources of L tryptophan include soy beans, cottage cheese, uncooked rice, fish, lentils, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds.
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DEPRESSION: DESCRIPTION AND TREATMENT
Depression lies beyond the broad spectrum of accustomed human unhappiness. In some cases, depression is considered a normal human emotional response to abnormal circumstances including the death of a parent, spouse or a child. In these situations the expectation is one of an inevitably slow and painful recovery. When mood plunges past the lowermost boundary of abject human unhappiness with no obvious social or physical cause, doctors say that a person is organically depressed. This definition justifies the use of special mind altering chemicals or the application of Electro Convulsive Therapy.A depressed person experiences alterations in the patterns of sleep. They have difficulty getting off to sleep and wake frequently. A striking feature of depression is early morning waking and often the mood cycles on a daily basis with despair at its height earlier in the day.The concentration and memory of the depressed person suffer also. So do levels of energy and drive. Delusions in relation to innocent bodily experiences loom large. Depressed people become very negative and nihilistic and have difficulty seeing any future both for themselves and others.When depression is at its worst, ideas of suicide and attempted suicide dominate. It is not unusual for very depressed men to kill their families and then themselves. About 20 per cent of the adult population experience symptoms of depression at some stage of their lives.In spite of public opposition to the medical management of mental illnesses such as depression, the use of antidepressant drugs and Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy has miraculously changed the morbid course of many depressive illnesses. Medication restores the mood to normal within weeks and ЕСТ produces a similar response in days. Without treatment almost 40 per cent of severely depressed people successfully suicide. With treatment the suicide rate drops to five per cent.
Home RemediesDespite an “organic” basis for its cause, depression and suicide plague aging individuals with chronic illness who lack supportive social networks. A wide range of stresses can plunge such people into the depths of suicidal depression. Prevention includes the adoption of an overtly satisfying series of social involvements. Bowling Clubs, The Senior Citizens, affiliation with churches that place an emphasis on fellowship, specific illness support groups and continued qualitative involvement with family affairs are all buffers necessary to keep a life threatening depression at bay.”Furthermore it must be said that the key variable in a lot of depression related suffering could be a lack of sex. There is still a gaping hole in the literature on this point because sex is still a taboo subject in this and many other societies.Sigmund Freud explored anxiety in relation to human fear, but no great pioneer has explored the psychological manifestations of human frustration and failure in the field of sexuality. As for the treatment of depression, shock treatment is very reminiscent of orgasm.And of course antidepressant medication may well mimic the brain’s chemical changes which occur during and after acts of satisfying sexual intercourse. Posterity may well view shock treatment and antidepressant medication as the poor man’s substitute for deep and meaningful acts of sexual gratification.”On a more mundane note L tryptophan – a naturally occurring amino acid elevates the mood of mildly depressed people. It has also been used as a mild sedative and a sleeping potion. Controversy erupted in and around the deaths of 20 people in the United States from the Eosinophilic Myalgia Syndrome. This syndrome was associated with the use of L tryptophan and the deaths were traced to the contamination of a batch of L Tryptophan manufactured by a Japanese company. Dietary sources of L tryptophan include soy beans, cottage cheese, uncooked rice, fish, lentils, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds.
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