Causes of Depression

Causes of Depression
By Dave Kettner

Rather than look at the causes of as though were a fully understood condition, let’s look at it in manageable packets. Exploring and understanding risk factors related to can go a long way toward making decisions about treatment and acceptance of a bout of major depression.

Also, as everyone is different, so to are the factors or causes of any one case of depression. For one person may have a side effect of increased sleep and fatigue, while another person may respond to with opposite symptoms of excess energy or overdrive modes of behavior.

Risk factors related to depression:

• Age

Though major typically occurs in people between the ages of 25 and 50, those over the age of 65 are particularly vulnerable for various reasons.

• Gender

Women are about as twice as likely as men in the United States to be diagnosed and treated for depression. About 20-25% of women and 12% of men will experience a serious bout of at least

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one time in their lifetimes. Among children, seems to happen in equal numbers of boys and girls. Then, as the sexes reach adolescence, girls tend to become more depressed than boys do. This gender imbalance with major continues into older age.

Women are both historically more likely to seek treatment for and negative feelings that may be occurring, such as feelings of hopelessness or worthlessness, though even more recent stats show an increasing number of men seeking self improvement therapy sessions.

• Marital Status

People who are unhappily married, separated or divorced have high rates of major depression. The rates of major are considerably lower for those who are happily married.

Risk factors do not ensure that someone will develop a depressive episode, and everyone has the susceptibility of developing from time to time. Risk factors are just a way of saying that of those that had the worst symptoms the listed features were present as well.

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When used to describe a mood, depression refers to what ma be normal feelings of sadness, despair, and discouragement. More serious depression may be a symptom of a variety of physical and mental disorders. However, clinical depression is a specific mental illness. ...