Manifestations of depression in women, men, adolescents

Depression is a disease of the emotional sphere, characterized by certain manifestations, both from the side of the psyche and from the side of the body. It should be remembered that not every state of depression is depressed. Temporary despondency, fatigue, apathy can arise in every person. Signs of depression in women and men include a long-term reluctance to do anything, lethargy, a sense of energy deficiency, lack of pleasure from life, a decrease in libido.

Causes of depression

Typically, this condition appears after prolonged stress, in the case when a person can not resolve a difficult life situation and does not see a way out of it. The development of the depressive state is promoted by so-called learned helplessness, when numerous efforts do not lead to the desired result.

The cause of chronic depressed mood can be somatic diseases, that is, body diseases - liver diseases, for example, are often accompanied by depression.

Women have a postpartum state of depression. This can be explained by the violation of blood microcirculation during pregnancy, which led to the death of some neurons. The latter, as is known, produce substances responsible for good mood and vivacity, the desire to create.

These compounds are called neurotransmitters. They include serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, etc. When these substances are deficient, the so-called endogenous depression develops in the nervous system. For its treatment, modern pharmacology offers preparations of various groups with different application points:

1. Tricyclic antidepressants.
2. Four-cycle. Inhibitors of reuptake of serotonin, norepinephrine.

The main symptoms of

Symptoms of depression in men: loss of interest in life, work, career, hobbies, which previously enjoyed. There may also be a fading of sexual interest or even erectile dysfunction on psychological grounds. The causes of male depression can be problems in work, quarrels in the family, somatic diseases, deficiency of vitamins and trace elements.

Signs of depression in adolescents include isolation, aggressiveness, apathy. Such young men and girls often miss school classes, can have dependence on narcotic substances, alcohol, tobacco. Characteristic is also the excessive immersion in the virtual world of social networks, computer games.

Latent depression

Psychotherapists and psychiatrists also use the concept of "latent", or latent depression. Hidden depression, the symptoms of which move from the psychic sphere to somatoform disorders, are more common for externally successful people. Such patients achieved a high social status, but did not receive moral satisfaction from their achievements.

Important! Depression, the physical symptoms of which are manifested in the form of functional disorders of internal organs, is called somatoform( gr. Soma-body).

Dysfunction of major organ systems in depression includes the following manifestations:

1. Dysfunction of the digestive system. Somatoform depression manifests itself more often by constipation, sometimes by diarrhea, bloating, nausea and other phenomena of dyspepsia.
2. Vegeto-vascular dystonia is a manifestation of neurotic depression, consisting in disturbance of nervous regulation of vascular tone.
3. Insomnia. The depressed people are disturbed by sleep mechanisms. They fall asleep badly at night due to the high level of cortisol produced by the adrenal glands. Due to lack of sleep, these people during the day feel lethargic.
4. Pupils with somatoform depression are often dilated( mydriasis).
5. Violation of the function of the liver and gallbladder. Dyskinesia of the biliary tract, heaviness in the right upper quadrant are observed.

Depression and anxiety

Anxious depression, the symptoms of which are not limited to a depressed state, but are supplemented by panic attacks, can also manifest themselves as physical manifestations. Perhaps as a groundless concern about an unplugged iron or an unclosed door( obsessive-compulsive disorder), and paranoid phenomena, phobias.

Patients suffering from anxious depression are suspicious and suspicious, can suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, feel unobjective fear. Attacks of anxiety, alternating with an apathetic condition, are characterized by a rapid heartbeat, a fear of death.

Prolonged depression

Prolonged depression, the symptoms of which are manifested not only in depression and lack of desire to live, can have serious consequences. A person suffering from this kind of mental disorder is often distracted. Brokenness in everyday situations can lead to the flooding of neighbors, fires and other dangerous cases. In fact, a person loses touch with this world, dies mentally, ceases to watch for himself.

Symptoms of deep depression:

1. Women stop doing makeup, manicure. Men "forget" about shaving and haircut, get addicted to alcohol.
2. These people tend to stay as rarely as possible in the company of their own kind.
3. Aggressive reaction to the proposed assistance.
4. Anorexia and cachexia, or, conversely, bulimia.

Severe depression, the symptoms of which are listed above, need medical treatment.