About Heart Disease And Depression: Heart Disease And Depression

Learn about the connection between heart disease and depression. Depression not only affects the person who is going through it, but also everyone around them, including friends, family, loved ones, spouses, and children.

Heart attacks and storks can cause depression

A blockage in a blood vessel or an artery can either cause a heart attack or a stroke. When artery that carries blood to the heart is blocked a heart attack can occur' and when an artery that carries blood to the brain is blocked a stroke can occur. Arteries that carry blood to these important and vital organs gets blocked due to fatty acids known as plaque getting deposited' and thereby preventing blood flow to the heart or the brain. Lack of blood in the heart muscle can cause a heart attack' and the lack of blood in the brain can cause brain cells to die and causing stroke as a result. In both cases' these are detrimental' and immediate treatment is a must to avoid disaster. Although' the hardening of plaque or the blockage happens gradually' the final block is a sudden occurrence.

Depression can be the cause of many diseases' such as cardio-vascular diseases or heart attacks' stroke' cancer and diabetes' which are long term illnesses. This can be the caused from the stress of the illness or the illness itself. Taking medications and treatment for a long period of time can also cause depression. According to research' certain drugs used for heart attacks' has been a cause of depression' and as such continuous research is done to avoid such drugs being given to patients suffering from cardio-vascular diseases.

Heart attack and stroke can make a person feel that there future is bleak or a feeling of death knocking at their door at any moment. Whilst heart attack can occur suddenly though stroke also could happen without a warning' it leaves you in a state that you are not able to perform your daily chaos as before. As brain cells die due to lack of blood to that specific area of the brain' the functions controlled by the brain too give in' and as such with partial paralysis' hearing' walking' vision' memory loss and speaking will be affected. Parts of the brain help us to remember short-term and long-term memories' and some other parts of the brain produce emotions' like wise it will also help us smell' see' hear and taste. Whilst short term memories will help us to remember the day to day happenings' long term memories will store memories of previous happenings' discussions' places you may visited' names and places and so on. With the brain suffering memory loss' the person will be unable to go through the day as before' and as such due to no fault of his' depression will set in. The mood swings' a common symptom of depression' will be quite evident in these people' and gradually other signs also will be evident in their lives.

As such' treating them appropriately with counseling does work well with those suffering from heart attacks and stroke' and thereby prevent possible depression in the future.