The Major Depressive Disorder

The major depressive disorder

Introduction

It is a very frequent disease in humans, comes from Latin depressio and means knocking down. This term describes very well the syndrome, since depression in general is a state that is characterized by Anhedonia that prevents you from enjoying the things you used to enjoy and also losing interest of them, also includes that you feel very tired and do not feel Desire to do anything for a minimum time of two weeks. It is said that all people have a degree of depression although some serious and many other slight.

Developing 

There are different types of depression and different treatments for each of the types, since the degree of depression will depend to determine the treatment. But somatic symptoms such as: loss of appetite, weight decrease etc. To be considered depression, doctors put aside the episodes of sadness and frustration and are only considered depression if it takes a time of six months or more this disorder is very frequent, since it affects at least 350 million people, being the First cause of world disability according to WHO. 

Psychogena depression; It has its origin in psychological conflicts and arises from an obvious cause and is considered reactive. Endogena or organic depression; It originates from a physiological disorder. Not attributable to the consumption of psychoactive substances or organic mental disorders. Unusual depressive humor in the patient, constant throughout the day and kept in time almost constantly.

It does not vary with the subject’s environmental circumstances, and persists at least for at least 2 weeks. 

Loss or absence of interest in previously pleasant activities.-Increased fatigue capacity, or loss of usual vitality.-Absence of emotional responses to events that generally trigger reactions.-Sleep alterations: the inability to reconcile sleep (conciliation insomnia), to keep it for more than two consecutive hours (maintenance insomnia), or arouseal less two hours before the expected time.

conclusion

Appearance of slowness in motor functions or agitation. In the psychological support treatment, the most used therapies for their specific nature are (TCC) and (TIP). Among other treatments that help; exercise, electroconvulsive therapy etc. Pharmacological treatment is usually limited to moderate and/or serious depression pictures.