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Today we’ll talk about depression , a common psychological disorder that we can have any of us, but precisely because it is often confused with other problems (they have come to diagnose simple episodes of sadness and anxiety and depression ) and misdiagnosed. Although it can affect both men and women are also cases of childhood depression and depression among adolescents. Among adults, it is women who suffer from depression more frequently, being sometimes associated with female biological situations such as menstruation and the period or postpartum depression , which sometimes occurs after childbirth.

The causes of depression can be many, in reality arises from a chemical imbalance in brain neurotransmitters and may be due to genetic causes, hormonal changes, live a traumatic experience, substance use, changes in lifestyle, etc.The point is that this is not a personality problem or to be taken as a sign of personal weakness, is real and treatable.

In depressive disorders, we highlight the major depression and dysthymia.
The major depression is diagnosed if a person reports having five or more depressive symptoms for at least two weeks, that is, it is a recurrent depression that can bring much harm to the life of the person who has it. The dysthymia is a type of chronic depression, more mild and moderate.Some people have this type of depression and are not aware of it, because their daily lives just do not experience disruption.A person with dysthymia is someone who often feel angry, that complains a lot, which has little energy and feel tired, feel stressed, with insomnia, poor appetite, etc., but can make a perfectly normal life.

The anxiety is an automatic response that occurs in our more primitive brain and the limbic system to recognize the existence of imminent danger. Logically, we can observe the animals flee from danger or avoid it.

That is the main characteristic of anxiety, we avoid risky situations.Escape or avoidance are typical symptoms of anxiety.
Many psychiatrists agree that some degree of anxiety is good and even necessary because it helps form the character of the person, enhances creativity and expands knowledge about the possibilities that life offers.

Generally, the circumstances of life that they have the experience that makes learning to fear situations, people, animals or circumstances relating to real dangers. So it is not surprising that we approach with caution a busy street when we suffered a setback on another busy street. It may happen that we have experienced even a danger to drive safely. Having heard that someone has an accident while crossing a street, for example, may be sufficient for us to have some fear to cross a busy street.This indicates the great capacity we humans have to learn.

The main feature of panic disorder is the presence of Panic Attack recurrent, unexpected and are not related to any particular circumstance (are spontaneous) without an external factor that triggers, that are not triggered by exposure to a social situation (such as social phobia) or against a feared object (in which case it would be a specific phobia). Another feature of panic disorder is the persistent fear of having a new Panic Attack, this is fear and fear is called anticipatory anxiety. This anxiety may get to be so important that can lead to mistaken diagnosis of panic disorder with that of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
These Crisis (or attacks) Panic, unexpected and recurrent, often have four or more of the following symptoms :

Intense fear of dying or be suffering a heart attack or serious physical illness that threatens life
Intense fear of going crazy or losing control of himself
Palpitations (awareness of heartbeat), or accelerated heart rate (tachycardia)
Sweating
Pallor
Tremors or muscle twitching
Choking sensation or shortness of breath
Tightness in the throat (feeling unable to breathe) or chest
Nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain or discomfort
Unsteadiness, dizziness or fainting
Feelings of unreality (feel the outside world as something strange)
Feeling of not being oneself (depersonalization)
Tingling (paresthesia)
Chills or a suffering from intense cold
The crisis developed abruptly, reaching maximum intensity in the first ten to 15 minutes and usually last less than an hour. They leave the sufferer in a state of total exhaustion psychophysical and great fear ( anticipatory anxiety ) to return to having a new crisis (fear of fear). Symptoms may include depression-like, afraid to leave or away from home or need to do so accompanied by a very close (family). The person often feels very tender and vulnerable. This type of disorder is so traumatic experience that the sufferer often change suddenly and unfavorable lifestyle habits: not wanting to go out alone in the home or traveling, social withdrawal, neglect their work or academic activities.

Often the person who is suffering a panic attack is the need to “run” the place where you are or to consult a doctor urgently if you think you are dying for real. If this crisis is first experienced in a particular place, train or bus for example, tends to be fear of returning to the same place or means of locomotion, thus developing a phobia to it.

Panic attacks / anxiety are often symptoms of a large group of conditions known as Anxiety Disorders.

There are five disorders (or disorders) anxiety prevalent, that can (and are) made jointly or chains:

Panic Disorder is the fear of spontaneous panic attacks and continuously. You can have a severe intensity, and symptoms are often mistaken for a heart attack.

Social anxiety: the fear of attack in social situations, which would mean public ridicule or embarrassment, creating a permanent state of alert, in order to prevent us from acting naturally in meetings and events with other people.
Acute Stress Disorder or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: the experimental situations of risk of death, whether personal or others, or dangerous or threatening events in extreme form.They are often accompanied by panic attacks, nightmares and memories of the event in the form of daydreams, as flashes.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: the thoughts and compulsive behaviors and involuntary forms of rituals that have to be developed in daily life: the compulsive cleaning of an object, excessive grooming, repeating certain words, etc.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: excessive concern is, at a time over months or about events that may not even have occurred. I feel like an idea that haunts you, marked by questions “and what if ….”

The anxiety is an evil of our times, fraught with uncertainty, instability, feelings of vulnerability. A manageable amount of anxiety is inherent to humans and can even be channeled into productive or creative activities.Another thing is when the anxiety pervades the whole self, paralyzing the subject, concerns and apprehensions loading every moment of your life that becomes unbearable and disturbing, becoming the anxiety a chronic and permanent.

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) has been recently identified as a psychiatric illness. Patients suffering from this disease from infancy to adulthood. It is diagnosed more frequently in women than in men (60% vs. 55%).More often, panic disorder, simple phobia, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

It is thought that the TAG there is a reduction in sensitivity to adrenergic receptors. There is also an excessive serotonergic activity in brain areas such as the raphe, hypothalamus, basal ganglia and the limbic system.

It has a co-morbidity (disease association) important in mood disorders and other anxiety disorders such as disorder post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder or social phobia .Between 25 and 30% of GAD patients with depression.In turn, between 20 and 30% of patients with depression met diagnostic criteria for GAD.It is closely related to alcohol abuse.

GAD is a chronic disorder, where the severity of symptoms fluctuates over time.Without specific treatment, it is unlikely that the symptoms subside spontaneously.66% of patients diagnosed with GAD can not receive any treatment. Read the rest of this entry »

The patient, a woman of fifty-five year old mother of three teenagers, has been in the office often complain of vague somatic discomfort, and variables. Is restless, moving his body – and her thoughts in a spasmodic and disjointed, states that “the heart beats too fast,” who has difficulty sleeping, which is “nervous all the time.” His hands are sticky and wet, and your heart rate is slightly increased, but otherwise his physical examination, once again, no nothing untoward. The patient is obviously distressed. But their distress is a disease in itself or a symptom of depression? If anxiety is a disease “is present alone or coexist with depression? However, it is more common that the patient has symptoms of anxiety as part of the global constellation of symptoms leading to diagnosis of depression. The anguish is easily detectable, whereas primary depression goes unnoticed.

Patients with endogenous depression occurs more frequently with distressing symptoms that depressed mood, but almost all depressed patients are also anxious. Thus anxiety is usually the patient’s reaction to the onset or exacerbation of depression. The inability of the depressed patient to handle the usual requirements of life creates the symptoms of anxiety – fear, stress, worry – and the concomitant somatic symptoms. In some patients, symptoms of anxiety dominates the course of depressive illness throughout their course. This type of depression is often called “anxious depression.” More often, symptoms of anxiety, despite being present during the entire episode of depression, dominate the skyline symptomatic only at the beginning of the depressive illness. An exacerbation of anxiety can be the first obvious sign – or recognized – of depressive illness, but the next evolution of depression may include fewer symptoms of anxiety or distress.

As the anxiety so often overlaps with depression, or coexist with it, patients are misdiagnosed as suffering from a “primary distress.” And many patients who are misdiagnosed are treated, then, the “anguish” with a tranquilizer or anxiolytic. When it comes to anxiety as a symptom of depression, with an anxiolytic, the best we can expect is a short-term relief of some of the components of the symptoms of anxiety. All too often can be seen that the use of tranquilizers in these cases deepens the depression, allowing the emergence of the more serious manifestations of depressive disorders. Depression can settle further and be more difficult to treat patients more wary of future treatments and become more fearful, with deepening of the ideas of ruin and despair. Patients in whom coexisting diseases anxiety and depression are at greater risk for treatment with a tranquilizer, but rarely are relieved, because they need more than a tranquilizer.

When you find signs of distress in a patient, it is important to note that anxiety or anxiety may be part of the structure of depression. Even when it is clear the primary anxiety diagnosis can be considered the possibility of coexisting depression. The physician should keep in mind the intricate relationship between anxiety and depression in order to provide the most effective treatment. Antidepressant treatment is indicated when anxiety or distress is a symptom of depression and is usually the most appropriate treatment when both anxiety and depression

1. Patients with symptoms of anxiety and depression but that do not meet current operational diagnostic criteria of anxiety disorders or mood disorders.
2. Patients with anxiety disorders or depressive disorder, respectively associated with depressive symptoms or anxiety symptoms.
3. Patients who meet the criteria for both diagnoses: major depressive disorder and anxiety disorder

When the origin of a physical problem has its starting point in a psychological aspect, then we speak of psychosomatic disorders. In this blog we tell health details of a problem estimated to affect about 30% of patients who seek medical care.

Have physical symptoms and not knowing where they come from. Try everything to solve these problems but nothing that can not be solved. In many cases, when a patient has physical problems, often have a psychological origin and we are talking about a psychosomatic disorder.

Thus, it seems clear that the power of the mind is essential for the body is in optimal conditions. There are times when a psychological problem has a clear physical manifestation. Now, how difficult is to show that mind-body connection so that it is the mind that causes physical problems.

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Anxiety is a psychological disorder that mainly produces insecurity and anxiety. If not treated like other psychological illnesses can cause physical disorders in the body and alter your immune system.

In the case of food we prefer, foods rich in vitamin B, to improve the general state of the nervous system, as in the case of rice, bread and cereals, eggs, dairy, nuts and green leafy vegetables.

It is also advisable to consume those containing vitamin C in large quantities as to anxiety or stress, the body quickly uses the reserves of this vitamin, which can be found in citrus fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, lemon, strawberries , kiwi, mango, black currant, leafy greens, parsley, pepper, tomato or potato.

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Anxiety is one of the evils that afflict the world’s population, given that we live in a way that the daily demands, lead to an accelerated pace.

There are herbs that can help relieve stress, anxiety and nerves, often recommended for the time before bedtime, and improve the quality of rest and start a new day have more energy.

The most famous of these teas is the lime, but it is well to remember. To prepare needed, 1 tablespoon linden flowers, per cup of boiling water, immerse in water, turn off heat, cover dish and let stand 5 minutes, strain and sweeten with honey.

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Anxiety, unlike other psychological illnesses, is characterized by excessive concern in some states or certain situations.

This disease worsens over time and is often difficult to control.

Generalized anxiety disorder, often prevents the patient leading a normal life, interfering in all his thoughts, feelings and exaggerated concern for his health, safety, money, work, future, and still others when there is no threat to any of them.

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