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Depression Help |
Overcoming Anxiety (Home) > Depression Help > Severe Depression Severe Depression is a Tough Job to TreatWhen anxiety reach the bearable points it mostly gives way for depression. And this problem is really traumatic. Depression will lead to many other problems that have heart- threatening effects. Anxiety gives rise to depression. This must be understood. It is not easy to identify people who suffer from anxiety and depression because they never ask for help. But the symptoms are very obvious. You have to be patient enough to understand the symptoms. Some of the symptoms are lack of sleep, lack of appetite, lack of positive feelings, frequent mood swings, practice negative thinking etc. Sometimes, though very rare, it becomes difficult to know because the person affected is able to hide the symptoms well. Depressed people make suicide attempts. This is very common. We read this in newspapers every day. Many people take away the precious lives by committing suicide. You must know that anxiety and depression go hand in hand. In women, anxiety and depression symptoms are often times influenced by the monthly periods. There may be anxiety and depression as a result of PMS i.e. premenstrual syndrome. And also during the tough days of menstruation, there may be rise in anxiety levels. This is mainly because of hormonal imbalance. However, not all the anxiety and depression problems are due to hormones. Sometimes, this happens because some family member's past medical history, or because the gene of the baby was faulty. Genetics plays a very important role here. If there are any problems, it's a possibility they can be rectified. People who are suffering from severe depression have more nerve cells in the part of the brain, which would control emotions and studies seem to confirm these findings. Severe depression, which is also known as clinical depression, is a state where the patient feels intensely sad or melancholic or despairs to such a point that his or her social life becomes disrupted and his daily life is also adversely affected. Severe depression is a medical diagnosis and is not the same as one's everyday conception of depression. The occurrence of severe depression is thought to affect approximately 16% of the population at least once in their lives and in countries such as Australia, almost one fourth of women and one in six men will suffer depression. It is also believed that women are twice as vulnerable to severe depression as men though there seems to be less of an imbalance over the recent past. This difference seems to occur in women in their 50s who have passed the end of menopause and severe depression is at present the leading cause of disability in the US and may become the second most leading cause of disability worldwide after heart disease by the year 2020, if the World Health Organization were to be believed. Treating people with severe depression may require use of anti-depressant drug therapy which is found to be very effective and can benefit a vast majority of patients. The anti-depressant drug therapy should be given for a minimum of six to twelve months or even longer and it would not be in order to give a person with severe depression anti-depressant drug therapy without some form of repeated counseling as a support measure. Persons suffering from severe depression are highly prone to committing suicide and since the anti-depressant drug therapy may need weeks before taking effect on the patient, who is desperately in need of professional help for getting emotional support for the him or herself as well as for his or her family, should be taken under the care of a qualified medical practitioner before it gets too late. Even though cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) in cases of severe depression has not completely been studied, trials of CBT indicate that it could be used in patients with depression whose symptoms do not respond well to antidepressants.
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