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Study Finds a Genetic Key That Leads to Self-Killing, Depression

Mental illness can affect a person at any time and at any age. While some of these disorders are mild and not much noticeable, others can take a toll on your personal as well as professional life. But if diagnosed at an early stage these problems can be cured. One of many such psychological problems is ‘schizophrenia’. It is basically a mental disorder where a person faces abnormalities in perception or expression of reality.

Medtronic's 'Brain pacemaker' Shows Promise in Treating Depression And OCD

The two of the most common mental health issues faced by teenagers today are depressiondefine and anxiety. Depression in teenagers is not always easy to spot.

Depressiondefine is a relentless and pervasive sense of despair that lasts for several weeks or months, even taking away the desire to live.

Life can be stressful. We all face different challenges and obstacles, and sometimes the pressure is hard to handle. Stress is a psychological and physiological response to events that upset our personal balance in some way. It affects ones mind, body, and behavior in many ways.

Elderly people who are depressed are more likely to get diabetes than those who are not, a study reports. It suggests depressiondefine may play a role in causing the most common form of diabetes.

Come winter and many of us are left feeling sad and depressed for no apparent reason. We would not want to get out of bed or would eat a lot so that we could just get away with the “winter blue” feeling.

Seasonal depressiondefine is much more severe than those normal winter blues; it is an affective disorder in which the individual will feel depressed, sad during the early fall or winter season when the days are short and nights are of longer duration. Large numbers of people may suffer from milder form like winter blue and around an estimated number of 10 million Americans suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

Alexandra the great, Sir Issac Newton, William Blake, Charles Dicken, Emily Dickenson, Sigmund freud, Marilyn Monroe, George Washington US President, Michelangelo are few of the famous personalities who have faced unipolar depressiondefine or manic depression in their lives.

Unipolar depression is also known as major depression, major depressive disorder, or clinical depression. It is a phase in which a person has extreme mood that is feel sad all of the time, have feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness, there is change in sleeping pattern, either sleep too much or too less accompanied by thoughts.

Bipolar disorder is also known as manic depressiondefine, manic depressive illness or bipolar mood disorder. It’s a psychiatric disorder in which the brain doesn’t work in the normal way.

Mood swings are quite normal and everybody goes through it at times. Quite human isn’t it? But it can create problems when the severity of it increases like in bipolar disorder, where an individual’s moods swings through extreme ups (mania) and extreme lows (depression). The person can have episodes of high mania and than could be quite normal for few days or weeks and than could go into depressive state.