Depression
Mental and Physical disorder
How It affects your body
Depression affects your body's nervous system by sending negative thoughts and messages to the brain. Instead of sending positive thoughts to your brain.
Brain activity
System
Depression affects the nervous system particularly the brain. By sending bad thoughts to the brain and feeling like your worthless and depressed.
Depression Symptoms
* Loss of interest in daily activities
* Gaining weight or losing weight
* Change in sleep patterns
* Change in appetite
* Loss of energy
* Slef-loathing
* Constant feeling of sadness
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People who this disorder affects
* Both male and female are affected by this disorder
* 25-45 is the age that is most common in adults with depression
* 13-18 is the age that is most common in teens with depression
* More than 350 million people of all ages have depression
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How depression is diagnosed
Doctors make a diagnosis after speaking with a patient
Change in mood
Change in diet
Change in sleep patterns
Thoughts of death or suicide
Family members that have or have had depression
The arise of depression
Anyone can get depression. It can be genetic if a family member has it or has had it. Depression is more common in women than it is in men. And depression is more common in teens and young adults.
Treatment
Treatment may involve of medication or psychotherapy
- Severe depression can require hospital care if of risk of hurting yourself or others
Prognosis
Up to 15% of those who are clinically depressed die by suicide other people who have depression live
Connections
I don’t know of someone with this condition but Jim Carey openly discussed his history of depression. And I selected this condition because I knew that it was a common condition and I knew a lot of the symptoms already and I wanted to know more about it like how it started.