Depression Disorders

Depression is a physical and mental condition in which a person feels that he is discouraged, unmotivated, sad, disinterested in life or hopeless in general. So depression disorders are the ailments that occur when someone is suffering from that state of hopelessness or discouragement. 

Anxiety on the other hand is a general medical term used for several disorders that cause someone to be nervousness or having the desire to do something with an uncertain outcome accompanied with a feeling of worry or uneasiness about the imminent task or event.

Depression disorders and anxiety disorders are two different disorders, but people suffering from depression often experience symptoms that are similar to those of an anxiety disorder, such as nervousness, sluggish movement of body limbs, irritability, and sleeping problems and lack of concentration.

Anxiety or depression disorders have their own causes and their own emotional and behavioral symptoms. It is worthy to note that all these disorders whether anxiety or depression disorders can be cured using alpranax which is a drug that help the brain to function properly, removes muscle tension and other physical manifestations of stress in the body and helps the body to adapt and decrease the physical and mental signs of anxiety.

Comorbidity

Major depression disorders at most times co-occur with other psychiatric problems like anxiety and this is what is referred to as comorbidity. A survey carried out in the years 1990–92 on National Comorbidity Survey (US) reports that 51% of people suffering from major depression also suffered from a lifetime of anxiety. Anxiety symptoms are known to have major impacts on the course of suffering from a depressive illness, which slows down the recovery, increases the risk of a relapse, leads to greater disability and the patient has suicidal attempts.

Types of depression

There are three main types of depressive disorders which can occur with any of the anxiety disorders, they are major depression, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder.

Major depression – This depression disorder is characterized by the patient feeling very sever depressive mood that can go for period longer than two weeks. It involves at less than five of these symptoms - Persistent sad or  mood of emptiness, having mixed feelings of hopelessness and pessimism, restlessness and irritability, having low appetite that co-occurs with weight loss or overeating that co-occurs with weight gain, having decreased energy, high fatigue and feeling "slowed down". Some patients with this depression disorder may feel that their life is not worth living and they will attempt to commit suicide.

Dysthymia – This is a less severe but long-term and chronic form of depression disorder. It has symptoms that are similar to major depression. This disorder can manifest itself either as stress with or without irritability and mild anhedonia - which is inability to see or feel pleasure from most activities. People with this depression disorder might be thought of as the kind of people who are always seeing the glass as half empty.

Bipolar disorder – This depression disorder once called manic-depression and it is characterized by a mood cycle that shifts from periods of severe highs (mania) called “blues” or periods of mild highs (hypomania) to times when the patient feels severely low (depression).

Treatment

Psychotherapy – This is where the patient attends therapy sessions where the therapist changes how he views things, his feelings towards certain matters and this can be supplemented with medication. The therapies can be administered by a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker or guidance counselor.

Medication – In this case the patient is given antihistamines, Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or Alpranax. Alpranax is a medicine that can be used to treat depression disorders because it reduces panic, irritability & tension.