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The depression is a very widespread illness, a man out of 10 will be reached of it during his life and 1 woman on 5. The depression is very frequent at the young adults, since 7 depressed on 10 have less than 45 years. But that depression does mean to the just? A lot of between you call depression an episode of temporary sadness that lasts some days and disappear or the blues, others say that they have depressed her", that they "are at the bottom" to express a pain to live, a temporary difficulty, an annoyance, one melancholy, but also in case of real problems. The word depresses became commonplace and it is very extensively today used. To take the depressive illness seriouslyThe depression (the depressive illness) is not a temporary state, it is a very big sadness that invades you for a long time, paralyze your taste to live, it makes you suffer a long time, it is a true illness to take very seriously. The depression is not therefore a stroke of blues! But that it doesn't prevent you to use the term of depresses when you want of it. Only know that for the physician, the term depression has a precise enough significance and that the word depresses doesn't exist in the medical language. If you are depressed the physician will prescribe you a treatment, follow-up psychothérapique or medicines fighting against the depression in a very efficient way (the antidepressants). Is there a reason to be depressed? Sometimes, the reason of the depression is clear. In other cases it is a lot less obvious. The essential is elsewhere: of all ways it is important that you were going to see your physician or a psychiatrist so that it helps you to manage it. The depression treats itself and heals 9 times on 10. The antidepressant treatment is more efficient if it is associated to a psychotherapy. The treatment is always relatively long, of the order of some months or more. A too brief treatment exposes to the risk of relapses. All ages touched by the depressionThe child is not saved by the depression. It is always desirable to consult a pediatrician or a pédopsychiatre when you have the impression that your child is for a long time sad, but also if he becomes very irritable or that he complains about his/her/its body in a repetitive way. He can also lose the appetite, or to have bad school results. The aged people are also sujettes to the depression. This one is sometimes difficult to detect among the aged subject. This one can present unrests of memory that will be assigned to wrong to age" or to Alzheimer's illness. Sometimes the aged person isolates itself, becomes hostile or aggressive with his setting. It is not about a normal evolution in the setting of the ageing, but can be of a depression. In this case an antidepressant treatment will improve the signs. 2010-10-02
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