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Depression
By Walter Heras
Intro to depression
What is depression?
Well depression is a type of illness that is common serious, it affects how you feel, act and the way you think.
Going through depression can be tough and here are some of the symptoms for it
Feeling sad
Feeling depressed
Loss of interested on things you once loved doing(sports, hobbys)
Loss of weight or Vic versa
Sleeping too much or too little
Feeling worthless
Suicidal thoughts
Cause and effect of depression
Causes:
It can be genetic ( meaning that someone has gone through depression)
Personal trauma(like going through a heart break or losing some very important In your life)
Stress ( school, work and more)
Social isolation ( not want to talk to friends or your own family no communication with the world)
Medications (that have side affects)
Having a chronic disease that can't be cured
Effects:
Loss of appetite
The mind ( makes you think negatively)
The body ( can either become fat or super skinny also can have muscle aches back pain or headaches)
Short time memory
Can cause suicide
My relationship with depression
My story
I went through depression at a very young I think 16-year-old and I'm 26 now so its 10 years since I had depression. It was very hard I was sad I also use to drink four lokos back then when it had all this bad ingredients that weren’t good for you. Because of it I end in the hospital couple of times because I was having hard time breathing which I didn’t know till later own that I was have anxiety and panic attacks and on top of that I was depressed. I had these symptoms
Sadness
Anger
Loss of appetite
Slept all the time
Didn’t talk to anyone
And had suicidal though
The reason I felt this was because I wasn’t doing the best in high school, I felt like I couldn’t amount to anything as much as I tried. The way I came out of it was when I men up and told the doctor to refer me to get help and I did it without any medication just will power and the support of my family. From this experience I learn everyday to be better and I'm always willing to help anyone going through something like that because not only have I gone through it but I see things in a very different way then most people probably do
Statistics of depression
17.3 million adults have witness some from of depression in the u.s (trauma, genetics, stress or medications.)
3.2 million adolescences ( anxiety) ages 12 to 17
For everyone is from 15 to 44 that gone through depression
Globally about 264 million had gone through some from of depression
How to deal with depression
How I got over depression was going to counseling and having moral support and the will to want to be better
Antidepressants which are good and bad cause of the side affects side affects are dizziness, fatigue, vison problems, dry mouth and constipation.
You can become addicted to it and maybe overdose
Talk to someone your comfortable with
Ask them to check with you to see how your doing
Join something like a sport
Try sleeping regular like 8 hours
Practice relaxations techniques like I did when my counselor show them to me
Go for walks and enjoy nature
List things about yourself that you like
Watch something funny tv show or movie
Take good baths
Listen to your favorite music
etc.
references
(n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/depression/what-is-depression
Depression Symptoms, Causes and Effects. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.psychguides.com/depression/
HelpGuide.org. 2020. Coping With Depression. [online] Available at: <https://www.helpguide.org/articles/depression/coping-with-depression.htm> [Accessed 13 March 2020].
DoSomething.org. 2020. 11 Facts About Depression. [online] Available at: <https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-depression> [Accessed 13 March 2020].