Depression

=By: Martina Gerstner 04/05/2012=



Previous knowledge: really I didn’t know anything of depression after I research, but when we started the exhibition to a grandmother of a friend called Laura Madriñan have depression and I ask her what was that and she say me like it was when people are very miserable in their lives.

The expression "I'm feeling depressed" when we're feeling sad or miserable about life and you want to take out that feeling, so you depress and die, majority is caused by peer pressure.

What are the symptoms of depression?
Depression shows itself in many different ways. People don't always realize what's going on because their problems seem to be physical, not mental. They tell themselves they're simply under the weather or feeling tired. But if you tick off five or more of the following symptoms, it's likely you're depressed:
 * Being restless and agitated
 * Waking up early, having difficulty sleeping, or sleeping more
 * Feeling tired and lacking energy; doing less and less
 * Using more tobacco, alcohol or other drugs than usual
 * Not eating properly and losing or putting on weight
 * Crying a lot
 * Difficulty remembering things
 * Physical aches and pains with no physical cause
 * Feeling low-spirited for much of the time, every day
 * Being unusually irritable or impatient
 * Getting no pleasure out of life or what you usually enjoy
 * Losing interest in your sex life
 * Finding it hard to concentrate or make decisions
 * Blaming yourself and feeling unnecessarily guilty about things
 * Lacking self-confidence and self-esteem
 * Being preoccupied with negative thoughts
 * Feeling numb, empty and despairing
 * Feeling helpless
 * Distancing yourself from others; not asking for support
 * Taking a bleak, pessimistic view of the future
 * Experiencing a sense of unreality
 * Self-harming (by cutting yourself, for example)
 * Thinking about suicide.

Anxiety
People who are depressed are often very anxious. It's not clear whether the anxiety leads into the depression or whether the depression causes the anxiety. A person feeling anxious may have a mind full of busy, repetitive thoughts, which make it hard to concentrate, relax, or sleep. They may have physical symptoms, such as headaches, aching muscles, sweating and dizziness. It may cause physical exhaustion and general ill health.

What causes depression?
The causes of depression are some serious problems, like fight between parents, bullying, and exclusion. There are lots of things that cause depression but all are problems, many people when they fall in depression they fall in drugs, then comes the anorexia and bulimia and maybe they became emos that means that this situations have affect them a lot and that’s why they fall in this things. by:martina gerstner

Summary: Depression is a big problem in the communities. It is a big problem because when you get depressed you don’t like anything and so you start getting low grades and sometimes you don’t even eat.