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The World Health Organization (WHO) says the rise of the depression by the rapid changes in lifestyle, the breakup of the family and the slow break with the traditions and social structures.
Depression causes a collapse of vital plane in four dimensions: depressed mood, anergy (no pulse), discomunicación and, finally, disruption of vital rhythms of sleep-wake and feeding.
Let’s see how Alonso Fernandez interprets the 4 dimensions, which we also evaluated in our patient for over 17 years.

In the depressed mood initially stands pessimism or bitterness, despair, sadness, weariness of life or lack of pleasure, moral or economic concerns, hypochondria, headaches, chest tightness and other feelings of discomfort body.

The anergy or depletion of pulses occur most frequently from the beginning boredom or apathy (lack of desire), the brooding obsessive indecision decreased routine activity at work or entertainment, the abstemious or dynamics (body fatigue ), and the shutdown of the sexual libido. Read the rest of this entry »

The treatment has to be addressed by health professionals, psychiatrists or psychologists, and methods are diverse, as appropriate.If we are facing an acute episode of depression or to a period of progressive deterioration, hospitalization is indicated.In severe depression may be indicated for use convulsive therapy, does not respond to other therapeutic interventions. Medical treatment with medication is always adequate, for relieving unnecessary suffering.In all cases, supportive psychotherapy is required, it helps the sick, at first to let off steam, and then to identify and assimilate the events of his experience, which may be involved in the development and maintenance of their state, for through understanding, understanding, modeling, learning and change certain aspects of life, prevent further episodes.

The first step to getting appropriate treatment for depression is a medical examination.Certain medications and some diseases, such as vital infections, can cause the same symptoms as depression.The physician should rule out these possibilities through a physical examination, patient interview and laboratory analysis.If physical causes are ruled out, the physician should perform a psychological evaluation or direct the patient to a psychiatrist or psychologist.

A good diagnostic evaluation should include a complete medical history .When the symptoms started, how long they have lasted, how serious are they?If the patient has had before, the doctor must determine whether the symptoms were treated and what treatment was given.The doctor should also ask about using alcohol and drugs, and if the patient has thoughts of death or suicide.In addition, the interview should include questions about other family members.Any relative has had depression and if it was treated, what treatments and what treatments were effective?

Finally, a diagnostic evaluation should include a mental status examination to determine whether patterns of speech, thought or memory have been affected, as sometimes happens in the case of depressive illness or manic-depressive.
The choice of treatment depend on the outcome of the evaluation. A variety of antidepressant medications and psychotherapies that can be used to treat depressive disorders.Psychotherapy alone is effective in some people with milder forms of depression. People with moderate to severe depression most often improve with antidepressants.Most get optimal results with a combined treatment of drugs for a relatively rapid relief of symptoms and psychotherapy to learn to cope better with life’s problems, including depression.The psychiatrist may prescribe medication and various forms of psychotherapy that have proven effective for depression, or both, depending on the patient’s diagnosis and severity of symptoms.

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

Breathe Life is the name of English origin program through which we can park their chronic pain , the stress or depression and be able to live with it in greater fullness.

The doctor and Buddhist John Kabat Zinn has created a Stress Reduction Program consists of eight weekly sessions of two hours each in which they learn and implement exercises and meditation observation , complete with a manual and three CDs s with meditation techniques to do at home. Offer distance learning courses and support for those who can not attend orientation sessions and free to get started in meditation.

John Kabat Zinn has been based on the two levels of suffering, physical and mental . While physical symptoms may be unavoidable, our approach stress has a major influence on our level of wellness .

Each end is for a human being the symbol of our own finitude, because the mind becomes aware of the ephemeral nature of existence when he experiences the end of each of the cycles of life.

It’s the same every day. When morning comes, a person may feel active, optimistic and enthusiastic to take up the daily rhythm. But as the hours go by decreasing their energy can be finally at dusk when the day dies, you get to feel overcome with sadness, because at sunset calls for reflection, balance and introspection.

Also to a university can lead to depression, as it involves a change that requires adaptation to a new situation full of uncertainty. Is when some students feel unable to face the challenges of a job and not rely on their knowledge, which seem insufficient and unsound. Read the rest of this entry »

Relaxation and concentration as part of a healthy lifestyle
These feelings liabilities to which they are called stress , insomnia, worry, depression , grief, anxiety, etc., are the chain leading to the people who have a certain disease. And this without considering that most of the world population tends to cling to other bad feelings such as hatred, resentment, envy, selfishness, etc. And even knowing the evil that makes them appear to be part of your own personality.

Besides bring all these evils and low feelings, as if part of your being, and being fully informed about this or that disease, which is the product of these, people prefer to ignore them and start practicing a tough sport, which only benefit seems to be a way of punishing the body, and they do so knowing that it might bring sequelae. Fortunately, more and more people are interested in sports practicing relaxation and concentration, with which you can enjoy a quiet life and not so boring.

The importance of good nutrition
Although more and more people seeking ways to improve your emotional state, some prefer to ignore and throw on deaf ears good eating habits and physical and mental exercise.

One way to regain lost health and maintain it is just learning to relax, to meditate, but above all make this a habit. This, along with a good supply of the occupied people have forgotten, is ideal. Getting used to a healthy diet, like fruits and vegetables . The stressful life has made ​​millions of people do not have time to eat well, and do so with junk food such as canned goods, soft drinks, fried foods, foods prepared with preservatives, etc. In addition to having completely forgotten that walking outdoors can help. Walking for exercise and body quite damaged because of sedentary lifestyle, remain seated in schools and workplaces against the computer or TV. This makes any human being will lose their health slowly. In addition to recreational areas for families are turning in confined spaces without proper ventilation and light.

Benefits of Meditation
If everyone is accustomed to exercise your mind just a few minutes a day, feel the pleasure of relaxation. What do you see life differently. Pondering a few minutes ago used to start a new day full of harmony, joy and good humor, feelings that are automatically transmitted to people around them.

By means of relaxation takes the energy with which to start a day, which do not need much time to sleep, wake up stressed and begin activities like hard work. Have enough time to go home quietly and actually see that every day can be a reason to enjoy a pleasant and healthy lives.

Such is the stress that accumulates throughout life that usually culminates in a disease. The chain works like this: depression, anxiety, grief, insomnia, worry, stress, etc., Affect the body so that the nervous system contracts, which makes lower the defenses of the immune system and organs not work properly, therefore this is what causes the disease.

How to apply meditation and relaxation exercises in daily life
Meditation can be applied to control or prevent disease trying to eliminate bad feelings, having positive attitudes and doing relaxation exercises that can be affirmed with simple things such as listening to lively music, read positive literature, watch television enjoyable, fun and always keeping in mind that laughter is a therapy for active relaxation. Accumulate good feelings, because they are a mental state that led astray become a physical state.

A recommendation to exercise the mind is the following exercise: go outside for five minutes, walk regardless of the path taken. Go home and sit placid and relaxed on a comfortable couch, close your eyes and think of what was observed during this trip. This is exactly the way through life … without seeing, without looking, without observing this or that thing in sight does not seem to matter and yet have it, and too much.

Schizophrenia is a mental illness rather unknown and mysterious, and yet not quite know where. To learn more about her health in this blog have asked us why there is schizophrenia, a severe mental illness that affects 1% of the population.

The exact causes of schizophrenia are unknown, although most experts point to a “limited supply” is responsible. In this sense, the idea is that each person has a number of more or less noticeable handicaps for the development of life, and indeed, in certain situations, not all react the same (whether biological or mental level). For example, before a tragic incident for the individual depends on the percentage that comes standard in each of us to develop this disease or not.

Thus, it can happen that someone with a high level of vulnerability to the disease, the loss of a job can be sufficient for developing schizophrenia. Of course, this does not explain the cause of schizophrenia as such, because we have to take into account biological factors.

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What are the symptoms?

Symptoms of depressive illness include not only the general gloom, but also physical changes. It is common for depressed person to be indifferent or apathetic about the outside world. he or she may also lose interest in or have problems with eating, sleeping and sex. Sometimes indigestion, constipation and headache appear.

Some depressed people have serious psychological symptoms. You may lose touch with reality, they may feel guilty and worthless, without cause, may believe they are being persecuted or that their bodies rot quickly, and may have hallucinations. Acute anxiety often accompanies depression, and the resulting unrest and agitation may mask the symptoms expected.

Intensity of symptoms often varies by time of day. Typically, a depressed person awakens early in a sad mood brightens as the day progresses. But some people have worse symptoms during the night. As the disease progresses, depression can worsen until it never lifts. The person becomes totally withdrawn, and may spend most of the time huddled in bed.

Self-help:
If you think that a mild form of depression lasting too long or starts to deepen, holidays, active sports, or hobby can help you get out. May not be possible to do this, however, if you have a depressive illness, so if these measures fail, consult your doctor. If a family member seems to be very depressed, try gentle but firm persuasion to get him or her to a doctor. Threats of suicide should be considered an emergency.

Professional help:
Depression treatment depends on the type and severity of symptoms. If you go to your family doctor with symptoms of depression, he or she may refer you to a specialist for treatment. Treatment may involve medications, psychotherapy or a combination of both. antidepressants, which are often used in the treatment of depression can usually begin to relieve a mild case within two to three weeks.

In severe cases, especially when there is a risk of suicide, the doctor may advise hospitalization in a hospital because their symptoms can be controlled, can be prevented from harming yourself, and pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy can be closely monitored . In rare cases of persistent illness, electroconvulsive therapy (est) may be recommended. If treated in a psychiatric hospital, the goal of treatment is not only to cure their depression, but also to prepare for a return to a normal life.

What are the long-term prospects?
People with a depressive illness usually respond well to treatment. Unfortunately, some types of depression tend to recur. Still many people who have repeated bouts of depressive illness to manage the role of treatment in the early stages of each attack.

Everyone can feel depressed at some time or another, and that’s just part of life. For some people, stress builds up in the depression that consumes their lives and make a person seek help. Some will not go to a doctor for depression, because many people still believe that depression is not something medical. The fact of the matter is clear, however, clinical depression is physical and, if left untreated can tear a person apart and lead to suicide just to stop the pain they feel. Others can not know what they feel and, finally, believe that depression is not even deserve to live.

There are some medications that are very useful in controlling the symptoms of depression and if taken regularly, the person will not stay depressed for long. There are still people who believe that taking depression pills stress relief makes them weaker or less of the people around them.

Simply not true and the word has to go stress relief depression pills are no different from a cast on one leg or crutches to help people walk. With that attitude, more people may have and get the help they need. There are many drugs that can affect the brain through better regulation of the release of chemical serotonin. The mood of a person will get better and that allows a person to better control of the many things that originally were becoming stress and depression.