Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Dysthmic Disorder: A Form of Depression

Dysthmic Disorder is the one of the well known form of depression basically characterized by inveterate depression. This kind of depression is not as much severe as the major depressions. The symptoms for this kind of depressions are very common among the youth generation and can rely for 2 years, low level of energy, long hours of sleep and disturbances which irritates the person are the major results of this order. Dysthmic disorder is not due to medical illness, its basically because of disorder in mind.

Consequences of the Dysthmic disorder basically results in low recalling or reminding power, hesitations in life, lack of confidence, and many more which describes the malfunctioning of the human life that he is not doing anything up to the mark. These symptoms are so severe that it can cause distress and interference in the vital responsibilities in the life.

Cure for this Dysthmic Disorder lies in the human itself, he has to physically rule out this disorder from his life. Else this depression can cause severe damage to life style. This is basically a mood disorder that can be cured by enjoying the life. Changing your daily routines and by bringing the another level of excitement in the daily life. Yup there are medicines to cure this disorder but medicines donot cure this upto complete extent so happiness in life is very essential to cure any kind of disease or disorder in this contemporary life.

MAOI antidepressants (classical and reversible), and SSRI antidepressants (of which the best current evidence is for fluoxetine) are supportive when person is getting full support from the family and friends to make the life living happy and worthful.

Causes for this Dysthmic Disorder:

# Mutation in thinking level
#Mutation in feelings of the person
#Rapid change in Behaviour

Friday, September 18, 2009

Understandig Bipolar depression

Bipolar depression is also known as manic depression. The person with bipolar depression has a very severe mood swing .A person with this depression show these symptoms for weeks and even months. This depression can go through various stages like severe depression, which shades into moderate depression and to mild and brief mood disturbances .This stage is then called as blues. These extremes of mood may include the lows of depression as well as the highs of a very elated mood (known as mania). This depression can occur in both males and females. It usually occurs first in age group of 18-24.

Symptoms of Bipolar depression
• Increased talking & thinking
• Insomnia
• Unrealistic belief in one's own abilities
• Poor judgment
• Increased sex drive
• Substance abuse
• Tiredness and loss of energy.
• Excessive feelings of worthlessness or guilt.
• Being unable to see a positive future.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Home Remidies For Depression

Depression is a feeling that can ruin a person’s life. The person in depression loose his ability to think and surrounding by negative thinking. Depression is not a disease but an illness wherein a person is not able to do normal things. There are a lot of depression treatments available. A person can also switch to home remedies to overcome depression. These home remedies offer a great help in fight depression.

Some of these remedies are

•Making a tea with cardamom and Indian basil leaves as it provides a great aroma that can help you to feel better.

•Try to be in touch of your friends.

•Always try to take food that is easy to digest.

•Add rose petals in boiling water and have the drink.

•Eat apple with milk and honey.

•Take sleep in dark room.

•Eat garlic clove after every meal.

•Try to take more vitamin C diet.

•Guggul improves the nervous coordination and provides a great help in depression.

•Relaxation and meditation provides a great help.

•Intake of fresh fruits should be increased

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

How to care a depressed person

Depression is one of the most common disorders. If one of your close one is depressed, you may wonder you can help him/her in some ways. The pain of seeing a loved one in the depression is like a torture. There is great need of taking care of the sufferer of depression. There are plenty of ways with which you can that you can help them.

Few ways to help them are
•Recognize the problem
Sometimes depressed person can not identify the right treatment for himself. It will be helpful for you to explore the treatment options. The more you understand the illness more better option you can opt for him.

•Provide Emotional Support
You should make the patient realize that he is not alone in this. You are always there for him. Showing ignorance gives birth to more negative thinking.

•Encourage activity
One should encourage the sufferer to perform activities that release stress. The patient should make to follow yoga and relaxation techniques properly.

•Go out
Going out for seeing a movie, meeting friends or to eat are great ideas. This will led new ideas to enter the patient mind and help to come out of depression.