Jude Evans-McCarthy tenía dificultados con sentimientos de desperaciónpero no lo contó a nadie para que no la calificaran de “loca” and incluso ocultó información de sus doctors.
Then, one day, después de años de difficulties, he almost crashed his car against a truck.
“Lo único que me tuvo fue que mis mascotas estaban en el carro. Y no queria [suicidarme] y que mi hijo lidie con las consequencias y se pregunte si no le amaba”, he said.
A later Evans-McCarthy diagnostic depression. He described the sensation of having an elephant on his chest. “El elefante tiene su trompa alrededor de mi garganta. Es difícil salir arrastrándose de abajo de él”.
Evans-McCarthy no es la única. La Anxiety and Depression Association of America [Asociación de ansiedad y depresión de Estados Unidos] (ADAA) Reporta que Depresiones clínicas o major depressive disorder (TDM) affecting more than 21 million American adults over 18 years of age.
“Depression is one of the most frequently diagnosed psychiatric illnesses in the world and can have a significant effect on your social relationships and daily life,” he said. Drew Pate, MDjefe de psiquiatría de LifeBridge Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
How do you know if you have depression or tristeza?
It is normal to be sad as a reaction to external events, but sadness passes with time and usually does not cause difficulty with the activities of everyday life. Clinical depression interferes with daily activities and is an extensive period of sadness that could have no relationship with external causes or factors.
“Las personas pueden tener una reacción depressiva temporal due to a difficult situation that lasts less than two weeks,” he said Karen Lynn Cassiday, Ph.D., ACTowner and Clinical Director of Anxiety Treatment Center of the metropolitan area of Chicago and ex-president of the ADAA. “Durante este tiempo, their activities could appear more difficult, but they can resume them quickly even if they feel sad, negative, afflicted, etcetera… Laspresspress clinicas o mayores, ocuren ménaires et al, ocuren ména, ocurrente, ocure, ocurrente, do desánimo, irritability, negativity or loss of interest in things that normally gave them pleasure”.
According to Cassiday, estos cambios de estado ánimo y de energía mental y física no deben coincidir con la personality de esa persona.
Are there different types of depression?
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, por sus siglas en inglés) indicates that there are various types of depression does it include TDM? e trastorno depressivo persistenteque es menos grave pero que puede durar años? y el seasonal affective disorder. Las depression majores pueden sistema con symptoms depresivos durante dos semanas o más e interfieren con las actividades cotidiana de las personas.
The ADAA reporta que el TDM es más prevalente en mujeres que en hombres. “Women have a unique risk of clinical depression during the peripartum period, when they are mothers who stay at home and when they have interrupted sleep [durante el período posparto]. Las mujeres need additional support desde el punto de vista emotionally and physically to deal with the changes related to motherhood to not be trapped in depression,” said Cassiday.
What are the symptoms of clinical depression?
Clinical depression symptoms can vary widely from person to person, but they could include continuous symptoms:
- Changes in sleep patterns and inability to sleep
- Loss of appetite
- Carbohydrate cravings
- Disminución de peso without explanation of 10 pounds or more
- Pérdida de interes en relaciones sexes o personals
- Pérdida de interes en amigos y pasatiempos
- Incapacity to feel love or affection
- Hablar o movese más lento que lo normal
- Difficulty concentrating
- Sensación de desesperanza or impotencia
How is depression treated?
El tratamiento para la depresión varies and can include psychotherapy and medications. La depression resistant to treatmentsque es una depresión que no mejora con tratamientos estándar, a veces se trata con otros métodosincluding electroconvulsive therapy, assessment of transcranial magnetic o ketamine.
Los medicamentos para la depresión deben tomarse según lo instruido y es posible que pecipencia que funcionario semanas después de la primera dosis. Todos los tratamientosincl.
You can also take measures that are useful to alleviate symptoms, including:
- Hacer ejercicio regulare
- Comer alimentos que cause poca inflammation
- Practicar Meditación de Conciencia plena y de gratitud
How to ask for help for depression
If you have symptoms of depression for more than two weeks, or if you have thoughts of suicide, you should seek help. Asking for help can be difficult. If you are not ready to communicate with a mental health professional, you can start scheduling a consultation with your head care provider.
Your medical care provider will try to identify symptoms to determine if you have depressionit will ask you about events that may have contributed to the symptoms and try to find familiar antecedents of depression. There are no problems available to diagnose depression, but also for your doctor to work in the laboratory to identify problemas hormonales o de otro tipo que puedan causar los mismos symptoms.
Evans-McCarthy discovered that asking for help and accepting treatment was useful to control his depression. “Los medicamentos son unas de varias herramientas que tengo disponibles,” he said. “Necesitas otras herramientas, tales como terapia, amigos, ejercicio y pasatiempos, que puedes usar cuando las necesitas”.
If you know someone who has a crisis, please call or send a text message to Line 988 for prevention of suicide and crisis.
Recursos
American Foundation for the Prevention of Suicide
Línea 988 de prevención del suicidio y crisis
National Hospital Institute general depression description page
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