Depression: Slowly wearing you down

Approximately 70 million numbers of people are suffering from Clinical depression in India and often they don’t know it, seek treatment for it and continue to lead a life that is sub optimal compromising both their work as well as their family in many instances. When a person is suffering from depression, it restricts with daily life and usual functioning. It can lead pain for both the patient with depression as well as those who care about him or her. Doctors name this ailment as “depressive disorder,” or “clinical depression”.

Signs of Clinical depression are not that uncommon but we often choose to ignore it. Some common ones are:

• Continuous low mood or sadness

• Feeling hopeless and helpless

• Having low self-esteem

• Moving or speaking more slowly than usual

• Variations in appetite or weight (usually decreased, but sometimes increased)

• Not performing well at work

Because of the stigma associated with the disease, many people have discovered that they mislay their self-esteem and have trouble making friends. Occasionally, the stigma attached to mental health conditions is so inescapable that people who doubt that they might suffer from mental health condition are reluctant to seek help for fear of what others may contemplate.

Are you wondering that whether Clinical depression is treatable or not? Then answer is yes. Clinical depression is willingly treatable with counselling. Many patients suffer unnecessarily from depression as they don't pursue treatment. About 60 to 80 percent of clinically depressed people can be treated positively. Treatments such as psychotherapy and support group’s aid people treat with major changes. Numerous short-term (12-20 weeks) “talk” therapies have been confirmed to be useful. Some methods aid patients to identify and change negative thinking patterns and that is able to treat Clinical depression.

Today many avenues for treatment are available including online portals which even provide anonymity. There are many digital platforms or apps that provide online counselling along with anonymity for Clinical depression. YourDOST is the personal emotional wellness mentor – a reliable online friend you can talk to, with skilled experts who know how to help you. It anonymously links you with the true expert involving of psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, who comprehend you and guide you through entirely trustworthy individual sessions (via free online chats).

Other similar digital platforms are typeathought, familycounselling, hopenetwork, talkitover, etc. There are also face-to-face and offline facilities as a traditional approach of counselling which can help you for better counselling. In this, you may select service type, counsellor, preferred date/time and confirm all the details. If you think that you have one or the other symptoms of clinical depression, get yourself treated. Treatment is simpler and more accessible than you think.

11 comments:

Unknown28 February 2017 at 13:46
. Modern day stress is causing depression to almost everybody. The competitive nature of life is contributing to it. People should indulge in stress-relieving activities like physical exercises, Yoga and meditations.

cyberzonene28 February 2017 at 18:56
People who have been depressed for a long time often ask me, “how can I make my life feel better?” Nobody likes to suffer. There is a sense of desperate longing to get away from the emotional pain. Long term depression signals that major changes are needed. Sometimes we need to change in ways that we’re not ready to or that we can’t yet imagine. Moving out of depression is a process of learning – learning more about the problems we’re having as well as learning what the smallest steps are that we can take right now to create a better experience.
sistan28 February 2017 at 22:40
Many of us have a sense of failure that colors our perception of ourselves and our achievements. If you look at your life through the lens of failure, you will fail to pay attention to or minimize your achievements. A mindset of failure also doesn’t take into account the difficult circumstances you may have faced, or how hard you tried. This mindset may have its roots in growing up with critical parents, not being as smart or athletic as siblings or close friends, or even having undiagnosed attention deficit disorder. It may be the result of disappointment in a key life area, like getting divorced, being single, having too much debt, or not getting a college degree or dream job. Once this mindset develops, you carry it with you into every new situation, believing that you lack what it takes to succeed.
ajit k hansda28 February 2017 at 23:29
Happiness and joy is necessary to fight depression. Depressed people should remember that they also have their own share of happiness. Changing their attitude towards life is essential.

R K Hansdah28 February 2017 at 23:42
Depression is causing suicides, high blood pressure, heart diseases, diabetes etc. Depressed people are often negative-minded people who are pessimistic, introvert and ridden with inferiority complexes

Unknown1 March 2017 at 10:08
Regardless of how heavy we get, there are usually brief moments when the blues lift slightly. You have to study your experience to notice them. It might be the moment when you take your first sip of coffee in the morning; or when you put your head down for a nap. Maybe it’s a moment when you notice something in nature, a sunset, the scent of a flower. One way to begin moving out of depression is to notice those moments and amplify them.
Unknown1 March 2017 at 10:11
Amplify the moment by being mindful of it. Bring your attention to what you’re noticing. Take several deep, long breaths. Let go of anything else that is on your mind. Just be in the moment. Let your senses fill with the tastes, smells, and sensations of the moment. Notice even the smallest shift in your mood for that moment. Stay with this for two to three minutes. Repeat as often as you can, through out the day.
sihdi1 March 2017 at 10:41
Depression is caused in part by keeping our focus on painful issues of the past and on poor expectations of the future. The past is entirely out of your control – which is one reason why it’s so painful to think about it. The future is shaped by your actions and attitude in the present moment. When we create a little island of pleasure, we are learning to exert a positive influence for our own sake, in the present. We deliberately draw our attention to something pleasurable to distract from the serious and complex issues that are causing so much pain. It gives us a little rest from the distress. Such moments become little islands of pleasure in the midst of an unhappy sea.
Unknown1 March 2017 at 11:31
When I was in my twenties I was going through one of many very dark, deep, heavy depressions that I’d experienced since childhood. My mother recommended that I make a date with myself, at least once a week, to sit down to dinner with the table nicely set. We’d always had candle-lit dinners growing up, so she emphasized lighting a candle.
Anonymous1 March 2017 at 11:47
Once you’re at your meal, breathe deeply and slowly as you indulge your taste buds. Bring to your mind all the sensory data you notice about the experience: the taste, smell, texture, sound, and sight of what’s in front of you. By bringing your full attention into this moment of pleasure and really soaking it in, you will give yourself a reprieve from the weight of the depression. Note: if you don’t like the meal, don’t give up - promise to improve on it next time.
Dr.Seema Soren3 March 2017 at 00:41
Depression is something that is rampant in our society. Apart from therapies involving a regimen of medicines; group therapy has also found extra-ordinary success. A change of scene and proper counselling during early stages can prevent clinical depression.