Depression affects more women. Depression is a persistent and debilitating disease that affects both women and men, but women experience depression at a rate almost double that of men.
According to surveys of doctors and psychiatrists, one in five women are at risk of having an episode during their life. Hormonal factors are primarily responsible in this matter such as menstrual cycle changes, pregnancy, abortion, postpartum period, pre-menopause and menopause.
Depression is a subtle condition, still stigmatized and difficult to deal with a thousand edges in which no single trigger but several factors pushing suffer. According to epidemiological studies, depression can affect any age, including girls, there is a higher incidence after puberty until the end of menopause.
But most often occurs between 25 and 45 years. Some drugs, alcohol and drugs as certain diseases can also cause depression. Sometimes a bad emotional situation (loss of a relative, or a problem at work), can trigger depression or cause the patient can recover fully.
The core symptoms of depression are:
- Fall mood
- Loss of energy and interest
- Feeling physical or weakening
- Low concentration
- Appetite and disturbed sleep
- Fewer physical and mental functions
- You feel worthless or guilty.
- Increase or reduction since appetite or weight.
- Have thoughts about death or suicide.
- Have trouble concentrating, thinking, remembering, or making decisions.
- Unable to sleep, or sleep too much.
The experts recommend that people who have the disease and who have had previous episodes, they can do preventive treatments from the pharmacological point of view.
For people who have not suffered depression but feel they can get to having it is good to a shift in the organization of life, physical activity, communication, food and any formula approach to psychotherapy to himself to reach a balance.
Tags: Depression, Menopause, Menstrual cycle changes, Pre-menopause, Pregnancy, Psychiatrists
