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Q: what causes clinical depression and how is it cured?
what causes clinical depression? how is it cured? is there a medicine? do they use happy pills? can you cheer someone up with it

A: It’s a chemical imbalance of the brain.
It’s very common
SSRIs are a class of drugs that help correct the imbalance.

Q: How exactly is clinical depression caused and what are the symptoms.?
I have a real bad case of clinical depression and i want to know how it is caused.

A: Clinical depression is not a sign of personal weakness, or a condition that can be willed away. Clinically depressed people cannot “pull themselves together” and get better. In fact, clinical depression often interferes with a person’s ability or wish to get help. Clinical depression is a serious illness that lasts for weeks, months and sometimes years. It may even influence someone to contemplate or attempt suicide.
Feeling sad and depressed is often a normal reaction to a stressful life situation. For example, it is normal to feel down after a major disappointment, or to have trouble sleeping or eating after a difficult relationship break-up. Usually, within a few days, perhaps after talking to a friend, we start to feel like ourselves again.
Clinical depression is very different. It involves a noticeable change in functioning that persists for two weeks or longer. Imagine that for the last three months you’ve slept more than 10 hours a day and still feel tired, you have stomach problems, you’re unable to cope with life, and you wonder if dying would solve all your problems. Or, imagine not being able to sleep more than four hours a night, not wanting to spend time with family or friends, and constantly feeling irritable. And when friends try to reach out to you, you get even more upset and bothered. You lose perspective, and you don’t realize that what you’re experiencing is abnormal. You want to just “wait it out,” and you don’t get help because you think it’s weak to ask for help or you don’t want to burden your friends.
These are some of the experiences that people can have when they suffer from clinical depression. Unlike normal stress and sadness, the symptoms of clinical depression persist and do not go away no matter how much the individual wants.
You may feel you know exactly why you’re depressed. Other times, however, the reasons for depression are not as clear. The causes of depression are quite complex. Very often it is a combination of genetic, psychological, and environmental factors. Regardless of the cause, depression is almost always treatable. You do not need to determine the cause of your depression to get help.

Q: What are some causes of clinical depression in men?

A: A wife who wont put out. A job that they have no control over their workload. Unrealized dreams or desires.

Q: Clinical Depression?
It is said that Clinical Depression is caused by an inbalance of chemicals in the brain. Does this slowly occur to someone or can it just randomly happen at any time?

A: They dont’ know those studies are done by the drug companies who are filling the meds and making the money . Go to www.seroxatsecrets.com and looking under the blog roll section to the right about clinical psychology and psychiatry a closer look . the article is by Lacasse and Leo (published in PLoS Medicine) that describes the gap between the marketing of serotonin in depression and the scientific literature.

Q: stress sleep deprived very busy at work cause clinical depression?
people are saying lack of sleep, a lot of stress, very busy at work can cause clinical depression. CAN EVERYONE can this? or is it usually the people who have depression most of the time have this?
is depression something that can come and go in a person who doesnt have an imbalance?

thanks

A: There are very many factors which can contribute towards someone having an anxiety disorder, and yes, the lifestyle issues you mention are some of those factors.

They come under these headings – sleep patterns, diet, exercise, work/family/financial matters – and generally there will be more than one factor involved. For example, you could have real stress at work which could cause bad sleep patterns and therefore sleep deprivation.

There are also other factors – check out the site below and you will see articles on this – but these are the lifesyle issues.

Two further comments in answer to your question.

Firstly, anxiety disorders are very, very common, with 1 in 4 of us having them at some time in their life – I suffered for over 13 years –

And secondly, they can be got rid of by unearthing the root cause and then learning how to get rid of it, or them – again, that site will help. There are skills and technqiues which you can learn which you incorporate into your everyday life.

And by the way, a person can be depressed without having any imbalance as you call it – this can be an heriditary thing, and is another one of the factors covered in articles on that site.

Hope this helps – best of luck.

Q: Can clinical depression cause minor forgetfullness?
Can CD cause people to have hard time memorizing and/or forget things?

A: Good question..

Well in some cases, such as if one suffers from Hypothyroidism(low thyroid), one is able to go into clinical depression depending on how severe the low thyroid levels are…

IF one does go through clinical depression and has low thyroid, it is known that one may start to easily forget things, making it harder to memorize things etc.

Otherwise, if you’re talking general, one may forget things because too much is on their mind, as that is what i personally think.

Q: Is severe depression and clinical depression caused by the same thing?

A: The term “clinical depression” refers to “Major Depressive Disorder”, which is a significant period of depressed mood, loss of interest in enjoyable things, and other symptoms. The terms refer to the same thing.

Depression is caused by a variety of things, including genetics and the way one sees the world.

Q: What’s the difference between clinical depression and the depression caused by an illness like hypothyroidism?
Can both be treated by anti-depressants or is the depression caused by hypothyroidism treated by an adjustment to thyroid medication. I’m curious about the connection.

A: Usually they will adjust the thyroid medication. There’s a difference in what part of the brain passages are affected, and the majopr difference is cause– clinical depression is caused by an imbalance of dopamine in the brain, thyroid depression may also involve imbalance of dopamine but the imbalance is caused by the thyroid condition.

Q: what can i do to overcome my clinical depression?
i want to know methods, besides therapy and medication, that can help me overcome my clinical depression. clinical depression meaning caused by a chemical imbalance in my brain. thanks in advance.

A: Eat healthy, exercise, meditation, engage in activities you enjoy, take yoru vitamins and eat your vegetables……….

Q: how do you treat NON-clinical depression if the causes of the depression cannot be lifted from you life?
I am so depressed. I’ve “seriously” thought of taking my life 3-4 times. one time i even wrote a suicide note and planned how and what time i am going to kill myself. i never really talked about it with anyone. what prevented me was my faith and the thought of how devastated my parents would be when i’m gone. i know everything about depression, and how i should seek a professional help right now, but my depression is not a clinical depression. there is a cause to my depression and if it is lifted up, then i am fine and actually happy with my life. i know most people will say that i just need to lift it up, but the problem is not that simple.
i am an international student, and i am currently living with my relatives. everything is so expensive. my relatives are rich, but they do not treat me very well. i want to move out so bad, but i don’t have the money. and my nuclear family believes that if i ever move out, my relatives in here will hate me forever and it’ll give my nuclear family problems too. the program that i am currently enrolled in demands almost all of my time, so i don’t spend time which causing lack of communication with my relatives here. they are not very understanding with how much time i have to dedicate for my school. and whenever we argue, i’ll lose my concentration and just can’t study. i feel very miserable every day cause i also think i am failing my classes. and i can’t talk to anyone cause they’ll just say i need prof help. they wont understand that what i am experiencing is NOT a clinical depression where you just cannot be happy no matter how perfect your life is. my situation is different. i have a difficult and empty life. i’ve been dealing with all these for ~3 years now. i’ve been so strong, you know? but nowadays when i wake up, the first thing i hear myself say is “i dont want to do this anymore” but i wake up anyway and do what i’m supposed to do. i am also in a spiritual distress. my relatives i live with dislike it when i practice my religion, so i pretended that i gave it up, and the only source i have for my religion information is just the internet and youtube. i used to pray everynight, but now adays, i’ve been losing sleep and i can’t even pray my routine prayer and so i usually sleep, hugging my religion book cause i’m always so tired. my relatives here do not even “smile.” i know it is as if im making it up, but they just do not smile. i feel like im going crazy everyday in here. it is like living in hell. the only thing that keeps me alive is the thought that this all will pass someday, and that i can gain my freedom someday by working hard in school. but now, i am actually failing my class due to fatigue, emotional and spiritual distress, lack of concentration, and lack of time. i feel very incompetent nowadays. life is just sooo hard in here. and today i secretly wish that i can just die faster so i dont have to go through this anymore. but don’t worry, i am not gonna commit suicide because i understand about depression and clinical depression. i guess i just want to let all these out and get some emotional support, even from strangers. this will someday end.
Thank you so much in advance. appreciate how lucky you are to have supportive family and have no financial problem. life is good to you.

A: It is so nice of your relatives to take you in and give you a place to live.
Now you are unhappy and making them to be the bad guys for your failures.
You just have to change your attitude and see them in a different light.
They probably wonder why you do not appreciate them and their hospitality.
Try making friends with them.
Go to the school guidance councilor for help also.
You have allowed this problem to become bigger than you. But it isn’t.
You can change your attitude and change your life. Positive self talk is important.
You can make that a habit instead of lamenting.

Q: What causes depression?
I have clinical depression and I want to understand more about it. What causes clinical depression? What is wrong with my brain?

A: It comes down to a chemical imbalance

Q: What causes depression? Does it afflict even happy healthy individuals from time to time and if so, why?
I don’t mean clinical depression; serious depression where you entertain suicidal thoughts or depression that follows life altering events. I am talking about “low level” depression where you feel somewhat blue…but for no apparent reason…things are going well in your life and your relationships are positive…yet you feel a void…a sort of depression. Are there causes for this? Do all people, in varying degrees, go through these depressions?

A: Serotonin and Dopamine. And yes all people do.

Q: What actually causes the ‘physical’ pain with severe clinical depression?

A: Well, I can’t say for sure, but I think it has to do with the fact that depression surpresses things in your body – like the immune system and brain chemicals. Depression happens in the brain so the brain is effected. The brain is what recieves incoming information about pain, and if the chemicals are off balance, it may not be able to accurately interpret the sensations you’re body is experiencing.

Also, sometimes the body experiences pain as sort of an outlet for the mental anguish a person is feeling. In children for instance, depression is often manifested in physical symptoms because they don’t have the language skills or understanding to express their mental pain, so the body finds an alternative way to express their depression.

Q: What does it say about my clinical depression when a conversion to Judaism can cure it?
Seriously, that’s what has happened to me. I used to suffer from chronic anxiety and clinical depression for years, was medicated, the lot; until my wife and I decided to convert. And wham! Gone, over night, and I’ve been feeling fabulous for months now without lapse.
Ever since then, I wonder what my previous anxiety and depression were caused by, and what’s more, what it is that Judaism supplies that totally cancels that condition.
What could it be?

A: Nobody can really say what your previous anxiety and depression were caused by, but maybe the whole conversion gave you the clean slate to start new and begin a new chapter in your life. Maybe that new outlook along with the new support system was all you needed. In my opinion you do not supply enough information but just based upon this, that is what it sounds like to me.

Q: What’s the difference between clinical depression and dysthymic disorder?
I know clinical depression is more serious, but lasts shorter, while Dysthymic disorder [or dysthymia] is chronic and less severe. But, is there another difference in between them? Like, what types of things would cause dysthymia and clinical depression? Is it a chemical imbalance or something like that? Or does it just develop? I just want to understand what I have to deal with better. =/

A: Life changing events can cause either. Often in a life changing event it takes six months to settle into the change. If not an adjustment disorder occurs which can lead to clinical depression.

Depression is not a simple topic as it can be organic, or caused by life stressors. (Reactive).

Dysthemia is just a general feeling of being down, whereas depression is acute and has sometimes debilitating symptoms.

Both can be organic (chemical) both can be due to life events.

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