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Loneliness is often a cause of depression and suicide
Loneliness and isolation Loneliness is often a cause of depression and suicide. This is particularly common among older people. Some solutions for the person are: • to make contact with old friends, neighbours or relatives with whom the person has not been in touch; • to contact relatives or friends and invite them for a […]
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Natural Depression Treatment
Some people who are depressed will need some form of medical or psychological treatment to help them overcome their present condition. The form of treatmentwill follow on from the particular theory of causation of the condition. Most peoplewith reactive depressions (i.e. in relation to a precipitating event) may receive acourse in counselling or some other […]
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Main Causes of Depression
An analysis of the causes of depression could fill an entire book; therefore, a briefoutline of the major theories will be provided. These theories are generally dividedinto biological and psychological factors. At first sight, the person who is grieving and a depressive person look rathersimilar; both seem to be drained and withdrawn. This similarity prompted […]
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unipolar depression symptoms
In unipolar depression, the person feels only depressive symptoms. In bipolardepression, the person will experience a range of moods; this will stretch fromfeeling profoundly low in mood to feeling extremely elated. An important point to remember here is that these depths and range of moodsdo not necessarily correspond to a precipitating event in the person’s […]
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The Old People Who Always Stay In Home Is Easy Caught Depression
If one old people seldom go downstairs and always be faced with daily life problem alone, he or she is more possibility to catch depression than other people. According the research of one local mental specialist have found, those old people ,who was living in the Toa Payoh ancestral house,is 3% more than other […]
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Depression in older people
Depression in older people Depression is a complex and multi-faceted mental experience that reflects changes in a person’s emotions, cognitions, physical state and behaviours. Generally, the diagnosis of clinical depression is based on either the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) (World Health Organization (WHO) or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual […]
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Epidemiology of depression in the elderly
Epidemiology of depression Although there have been many attempts to examine the existence of depression in older people, accurate estimates of the prevalence of depression can be problematic due to the use of different instruments and the focus on different types of depression. Beekman et al. review of studies into the prevalence of depression in […]
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Key Characteristics of Depression
Main characteristics of depression as follows: Emotions The emotional aspect of depression often presents with the person reporting (or being observed having), depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day. This is often characterized by expressions of sadness, despair and tearfulness. Cognitions Associated with the above emotions, depressed people will often experience and describe […]
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Traumatic events and depression
Traumatic sources of depression Sometimes the onset of the depression can be traced back to shortly after a trauma, or a traumatic period, in one’s life. This can often result in depression especially if the trauma has not been worked with or resolved in some effective way. Depression here can be seen as a symptom […]
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Family life during the depression
arental or family sources of depression Some people have been seriously depressed for most of their lives. Sometimes this can be traced back to the early loss of a parent, or a family disaster, or it can be traced to the fact that their main caregiving parent(s) were themselves seriously depressed, so they “learnt” to […]
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