Depression: Symptoms Causes and Treatment

Now a day’s depression is a very common disease found worldwide. All of us go through it in some phase of life but sometimes do not recognize it. We have seen patients of all age groups suffering from this disease ie teenagers, adults or even old age peoples. As compared to other age groups teenagers are more at risk of this disease. As per WHO study, more than 300 million peoples of all age groups are suffering from depression. Corona viruses have created fatality everywhere economically and socially. As a result, more people have the risk of being Inflicted with this disease.  In starting its symptoms may be mild but its very serious disease which may be life threatening. Before discussing its symptoms, root causes and treatment let us understand that the root cause of all diseases including physical diseases are mind. We have to believe that the graph of life is never static. It will go up and down again up but never stop because only change is the law of nature. Means only change is static rest is changeable. Accepting the changes and moving forward is the art of living a successful life.

 

Symptoms

Depression does not depict any particular pattern. In many cases it may be difficult to identify the symptoms in early stages until it manifests into physical disease. It can be understood as a serious mood disorder that can affect the way we think, feel and act and it can impact our performance in personal and professional relationships. This article will help to understand how depression affects us in multiple areas of our life.

 

Depression may be understood as a by-product of our feelings and emotions ultimately resulting in physical disease. It is like a feeling of negativity which affects the ability to attend our core responsibility areas such as study, office work, homework, relationship and daily routine works. Sometimes it may be in the form of average level stress or psychometric complaint. Psychometric complaints are a combination of physical vulnerability and psychometric factors like stress and anxiety. These factors can cause headache, stomach-ache and physical pains. In reverse order chronic pains due to any disease may also result in anxiety and depression. You might have seen medical practitioners especially in the homeopathic field used to ask a number of questions from patients to understand the root cause resulting in disease.   

 

Accordingly, red flag needs to be triggered if any member of our family is suffering from following symptoms frequently-

 

-        headache,

-        stomach ache,

-        loss of appetite or significant change in eating habits,

-        Muscular pain (including stiff neck and other pains) and

-        Fatigue.

-        Insomnia and hypersomnia (sleep disorder)

-        Frequent interruption in sleep cycle and difficulty in sleep.

 

Root Causes

Our society has created a number of reasons to get inflicted with depression. Increasing competition, Selfishness attitude of peoples or we can say gradual fall in observance of human values sometimes creates a situation where people do not achieve what they expect or other stakeholders expect from them. The disappointment from deliverable's or desires of monkey mind causes pain or other signs mentioned below-

-        Irritability

-        Anger

-        Depressed mood

-       Feeling of guilt

-        Feeling helpless (It’s too late, I cannot do this job, I cannot succeed etc)

-        Feeling of hopelessness (I will never get my dream job; I will not pass in exam etc)

-        Feeling of sadness or unhappiness

-        Disappointment or Feeling of worthlessness

-        Frequent crying

-       Suicidal thoughts or behavior.

There may be a number of reasons which may cause development of negative feelings. Few of them are listed below-

-        Lack of discipline

-        Low self-esteem

-        Lack of confidence

-        Lack of love

-        Lack of determination

-        Black magic curse

-        Greed (too many desires)

-        Unhappy attitude or demeanor

-        Bad company

-        Anxiety

-        Jealousy

-        Grief

-        Fear

-        Hate

-        Nervous tension

Shock and or stress resulting from following events may be root cause of depression-

-        Domestic violence

-        Newly married life

-        Unhappy marriage, separation or divorce

-        Looking after children

-        Lost family member, loved one or pet

-        Busy business life

-        Accidents

-        Financial difficulty

-        Change of employment from job, loss of job or change of boss.

From the above example we can assume that any person may be inflicted with depression. Whenever a person gets afflicted with this problem, he develops a tendency of living in isolation. It is nowadays very common in teenagers. To cope up with this problem sometimes they go on the wrong path and develop another problem in the form of addiction to smoking, alcohol and drugs. Corona viruses have created a lot of problems for human beings therefore the risk of increasing the number of depression patients cannot be ruled out.

 

Treatment

Number of options are available to mankind to get rid of depression. Foremost way to control this problem is to control the mind. Although little tough but with proper discipline and guidance it is very much possible. We have to understand the real meaning of the verse (sloka) mentioned in Srimad Bhagwat Geeta.

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।

मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि

Meaning thereby we have understood that to work is our right, but not to the fruits thereof and develop detachment from fruits accordingly so that we do not run behind the worldly desires beyond a point. We have to live a disciplined life and develop harmony in thought, deed and action. Regular diet and morning walk gives additional benefits. Pranayam and meditations are equally helpful. Therefore do not compare yourself or your loved one with anyone else. All of us are unique creation of the God having unique qualities. Just work hard and have trust on God. 

  

In a number of cases Hawaiian therapy ie hoʻ oponopono is too very useful where forgiveness is practiced.

 

If the problem is chronic in nature then medication is available in all formats like allopathy, homeopathy or ayurvedic system of healing. Care needs to be taken that all facts need to be explained to medical practitioners so that most appropriate remedies may be given. First step in right direction is to give up hesitation and share the problem with the person you trust and ask for help. For any query please do contact us at benkteshpandey@trufeeling.com. We will happy to assist you.

 

Thanking you and wishing all of you a very happy and blissful life.

 

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