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Depression
What is Depression?
Basically Depression is low
mood, or put another way, misery or unhappiness. What separates serious
depression (the experts call it "clinical depression"), which
causes people to seek medical or psychological help from everyday depression,
is that this clinical depression affects people so much that it seriously
affects their relationships, jobs, ability to do things etc and just
will not go away. Sleep is often difficult, and appetite and sexual
desire often drop off dramatically. People may seem tearful, irritable
and angry, lethargic, or even suicidal if they are seriously depressed.
Sadly, about 1 in 6 severely depressed people kill themselves eventually.
However, there are treatments that can help. 
What Causes Depression?
There doesn't seem to be
just one cause of depression, the list seems almost endless. Some of
the major factors involved are:
- Brain Chemistry
- Family History of Depression
- Alcoholism
- Losing your Parents or being neglected by them
- Low Self-Confidence
- Relationship Problems with a loved one
- Lack of Friends or Family
- Recent Stressful or Traumatic Events
As you can see, almost anything
bad that has happened to you can cause depression. However, people respond
in different ways to bad or unhappy events, what may trigger depression
in one person might not in another. Experts, whatever they might claim,
still don't really know why one person will get depressed while another
one doesn't in the same circumstances. Usually someone will offer some
explanation with the word "genetic" in it, but be careful
not to accept this on face value, because it often doesn't help very
much.
How Many People Suffer
from Depression?
At any point in time about
1 in 5 adults are suffering from significant levels of depression and
about 1 in 8 people get severe enough depression to require some form
of treatment. Depression has been thought to account for anything up
to three quarters (75%) of psychiatric hospital admissions. Women are
nearly twice as likely as men to get serious depression, although recently
depression levels have begun to rise in men.
What Therapies Work?
Almost all known therapies
(and there are hundreds if not thousands of them) claim to be able to
help relieve depression. However, be cautious, relatively few of them
have the scientific research behind them to show that they do. Fortunately,
most of the well known therapies have some research behind them.
These include Cognitive-Behavioural
Therapy (CBT) and Psychodynamic
Therapy. In general, CBT tends to offer shorter treatments
concentrating more on the here and now of the problem, while Psychodynamic
Therapies to cover more details of your background, relationships, and
personality. However, as with all therapies, the exact method of treatment
should be designed for the individual person rather that the person
being fitted into the right therapy. In other words the therapy that
will probably work best for you will be one that suits you.
Remember!!!
Feeling sad is a normal part
of life, especially following an event like the loss of a loved one,
or a job. It would be of more concern if you didn't feel depressed after
these sorts of things. Serious depression can take many forms but what
stands out most about it is that people don't get over it in time as
most of us do.
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The global community is what keeps phobics awareness going.
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Dedicated volunteers work constantly to improve the site and
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Paul launched the site on 21st of June 2002 with the help
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I am a psychiatrist with over 30 years’
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therapists. In order to make its contents available to more
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We though agoraphobics may be interested in this book.
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Relaxation Tapes & CD's
We are hoping to offer tapes and CD's very soon, The only
cost will be for postage and packing, We believe in trying
to keep the price as low as possible, You can find some CD's
on the forum
Storm Phobias
I know this time of year in the UK can be a worrying time
for people who suffer from storm phobias,
Especially thunder and lightning, I will be working on this
part of the site over the next few weeks, In the mean time
I've added a lightning detector so you can see where the storms
are, It refreshes every 60 seconds, You can find It Here
Also check out the Net Weather web site Here.
More about Storm Phobia Here
Books
The Driving Fear Program
The Driving Fear program is a self-help resource for those
with a fear of driving, or a driving related phobia such as
fear of highways or bridges. It includes articles on specific
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by clinicians and individuals worldwide.
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