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Depression
Everyone at one point or another will feel sadness as a reaction to loss, grief, or injured self-esteem. Many factors can contribute to feelings of depression. These include a change in physical health, life events, heredity, inheritance, environment, and internal reactive patterns. Lack of sleep alone cannot cause depression, but it does play a role. Lack of sleep resulting from another medical illness or the presence of personal problems can intensify depression. Chronic inability to sleep is also an important clue that someone may be depressed. Triggers of depression include:
Illnesses that can lead to depression are usually major, chronic, and/or terminal. When an illness is causing depression, there is often long-term pain present or there is a sudden change in lifestyle. Depression causes illness in a different way. Like psychological stress, it can weaken the immune system, allowing a person to get more colds or the flu. There is often a notable presence of ‘aches and pains’ with no particular cause. Depression may also cause an illness to last longer and intensify its symptoms. One reason women may experience depression may be the various changes in hormone levels. For example, depression is common during pregnancy and menopause, as well as after giving birth, suffering a miscarriage, or having a hysterectomy. These are all times when women experience huge fluctuations in hormones. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) may also cause depression. Most people who suffer from depression do not attempt suicide, but according to the National Mental Health Association, 30-70% of suicide victims have suffered from some form of depression. This figure demonstrates the importance of seeking professional treatment for yourself or someone you love if you suspect depression. Having experienced depression puts a person at greater risk for recurrence, but not everyone who has recovered from depression will experience it again. Sometimes depression is triggered by a major life event, illness, or a combination of factors particular to a certain place and time. Getting the proper treatment is crucial to recovery, and in helping prevent or identify any future depression. If left untreated, various types of depression can last for years. A major depressive episode is characterized by a set of symptoms that last for more than two weeks and may last for months. Seasonal depression usually extends throughout the winter months and continues to improve during spring and summer. Certain drugs prescribed for various medical conditions have been found to cause feelings of sadness, despair, and discouragement or excessive happiness and joy in some people. When a medicine produces symptoms of depression, your doctor may recommend discontinuing the drug or reducing the dosage. If this is not possible, your doctor may treat the symptoms with other drugs. If you do experience depressive feelings from taking medication, call your doctor immediately. Do not stop taking medicine unless directed to do so by your doctor. In all cases, the risk of side effects must be balanced against the risk and discomfort of not treating the problem. Depression is one of the most common complications of chronic illness. It is estimated that up to one-third of individuals with a serious medical condition experience symptoms of depression. Depression and illness may occur together because the physical changes associated with the illness trigger the depression, the individual has a psychological reaction to the hardships posed by the illness, or simply as a coincidence. Depression caused by chronic illness tends to make people withdraw into social isolation. Patients and their family members often overlook the symptoms of depression, assuming that feeling depressed is normal for someone struggling with a serious, chronic illness. Symptoms of depression are also frequently masked by the other medical conditions, resulting in treatment for the symptoms but not the underlying cause of the symptoms the depression. It is extremely important to treat both forms of illness at the same time. Treatment of depression in people with chronic disease is similar to that offered to other people with depression. Early diagnosis and treatment for depression can reduce distress, as well as the risk of complications and suicide. People who get treatment for depression that occurs at the same time as a chronic disease often experience an improvement in their overall medical condition, a better quality of life, and are more easily able to stick to their treatment plans. Cycles of depression affect a person's productivity at work yet most employers don't recognize the problem. Employers lose an estimated $44 billion every year due to workers with depression, because depressed people still show up for work, but their performance may be substantially reduced while there. Simply medicating the overt symptoms of depression, is insufficient to obtaining long term relief from depression. Without therapeutic treatment of the underlying emotional component of depression, the illness will continue to cycle through feelings of despair, followed by euphoria, followed by more despair. More than any other element of this problem, this cyclical effect, causes debilitating stress and feelings of hopelessness. Even depression which has a physiological and/or chemical component, has emotional and behavioral triggers. It is imperative that the treatment address behavioral and emotional triggers, isolating and neutralizing their negative hold on the subconscious. An effective modality of treating the underlying emotional content of depression is the unique system of hypnotherapy called The Sidman Solution®. It has demonstrated success in providing drug free relief from depressive symptoms, such as stress, anxiety, and sleeplessness. Contact Us Today to see how we can help you find relief from your symptoms of depression.
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