Depression can affect anyone, and is brought on by aspects such as grief and homesickness. The articles in this section offer useful information on what depression is, how it can be diagnosed and how those affected can seek help. They also offer insight on the types of drugs available and how they can affect your overall health, as well as how the condition affects children and adults.
Depression: What is Depression and How Can it be Handled?
There are different forms of depression brought on by unfamiliar and sudden circumstances. While some learn to live with it and carry their burdens for the rest of their lives, there are options where help can be sought.
Causes for the disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder' also known in short as SAD' is a mood disorder caused mainly during periods of winter (and less frequently in the summer)' where you can observe symptoms of depression and misery in a person who has normal mental health during most parts of the year. This disorder would repeatedly be caused year after year with the changes in the seasons.
But what exactly causes this kind of mental or mood disorder is what anybody would want to know. This article provides the right answer for this question' where it aims to explain the different causes of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
After all the studies and researches' the specific cause of SAD still remains unknown. However' they say that just as water' the daylight / sunlight too is an essential to the humans. They also say that exposure to the daylight / sunlight is what helps humans to be strong and healthy. So as the winter season comes in' there would be shorter hours of daylight and longer hours of darkness' and this affects human behavior.
As experts say' sunlight helps humans in the production of some key hormones' and it is believed that with the shortfall of daylight during the winters' this hormone production would be affected' which eventually leads to weakness of spirit and depression.Read More
Almost all people in the world have a reaction (varying in intensity) to the changing weather and day to day weather changes. Especially winters bring about laziness; people prefer eating and sleeping more than doing their daily activities. With the dropping temperature' less sunlight and shorter days' these reactions are normal. But for a person suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder these changes may illicit a serious and completely different reaction. Feelings of depression' fatigue and lethargy are some of the symptoms of SAD.
Fundamentally' there is no real distinction between a Seasonal Affective Disorder and a common form of Depression. The difference is essentially in the pattern of depression. While the common form of Depression continues throughout the year' Seasonal Affective Disorder has a unique pattern to it' and every patient may have his or her own pattern in the year when the disorder expresses itself. Therefore' the key diagnosis of a Seasonal Affective Disorder is that its occurrence is not continuous' throughout the year' but it...
As explained in previous articles' the effects of SAD is more prominent during the winter. The cold season is dreary enough as it is' without depression adding to it! So how does one cope with such a condition and find the strength to hold it off until the reassuring arrival of spring/summer?
According to the experts' a sureshot way of preventing the onset of SAD is not found. However' they...
The melancholy that comes in with the winters is not unusual. Any person feels a little down and depressed with overcast skies and cold weather. But SAD symptoms must be attended to as any other health problem. I f a person is suffering from lethargy' excessive eating' and anti-social behavior' he or she might be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD.
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