Major Depression: Severe Type Of Depression
Major depression is a very harsh type of depression
and has most of the symptoms of depression present, which are often more
intense and severe. Major depression may be due to some traumatic event
in the patient’s life or may slowly but surely develop due to a number
of personal disappointments as well as other problems in the patient’s
life. There are instances when a person may develop symptoms of major
depression without any apparent crisis in their lives and there are also
patients who have less severe symptoms which last for an extended period
of time and when a crisis does occur in their lives, the symptoms
increase greatly.
Result Of Major Trauma
It is possible for major depression to happen just once due to a major
psychological trauma which, when treated, responds and goes away and is
known as a single episode. People may also have recurring depression
where depressive episodes may be followed by years without feeling
depressed and then an instance of the depression episode returns,
usually because of another trauma and this is known as recurrent
depression.
There may be a combination of symptoms that pertain to major depression
and which may occur together and may last for a minimum of two weeks
when there would not be any major improvement in the condition. Most of
the symptoms of major depression include persistently feeling sad,
depressed, anxious or empty headed, feeling useless and without any
worth and helpless or feeling too much of guilt, which is inappropriate.
The future also seems bleak and feelings of excessive pessimism are
present in the patient who may also suffer a loss of interest and
pleasure from daily activities and energy levels are substantially
reduced, with feelings of chronic fatigue.
The patient may not be able to remember things and memory is generally
poor and making decisions as well as concentrating is difficult for the
patient who may also feel very irritable, restless or agitated.
Difficulty in getting enough sleep or sleeping over the limits and
having reduced appetite as well as generally not being interested in
food or eating too much, resulting in putting on too much weight, are
some other symptoms of major depression, which also includes recurring
thoughts concerning death or thinking about suicide are other symptoms
of major depression.
Some patients of major depression may describe themselves to find it
very hard to get out of bed in the morning and feel tired all day and
when night falls, sleep seems to elude them. There may be vagueness and
staring at the ceiling and wondering about what has happened to them and
what would become of him or her. Everything seems very depressing and
so, talking to someone who can help or consulting a psychologist may be
a way of changing this disorder.
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