Characters from the world of entertainment and art came out to say, in Argentina, that they are suffering, that the depression and anxiety It is also up to them https://noticias.perfil.com/noticias/informacion-general/depresion-y-ansiedad-los-famosos-rompen-el-tabu.phtml. Like many people. To more and more. And from there there are some issues to see at least in flight, in these few lines.
no, depression It’s not “being sad”. Cause sadness can come and go while depression sets in and disrupts all aspects of a person’s life: work, social relationships, sexuality, the very desire to live, seem to vanish in the midst of a haze of fatigue, hopelessness and lack of horizons. For someone with depression getting up every day is an immense effortand the smallest problem an impossible mountain that causes a anxiety rush capable of becoming, by force of the activation of brain substances, a panic attack.
Thus, depression is not managed by “putting will”, there is no rationality in this. No one “chooses” to feel depressed, to get out of that pit without goals or for what purpose that everyday life becomes requires much more than good wishes: medical treatment is necessarya therapy, professional containment, crutches that allow you to get up first from that bed that consumes, to walk again later.
The Depression It is a mental disorder that affects at least 5% of the world’s population.. Around 280 million people on the planet have depression, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Something very “democratic” about the depression is that Anyone at any age can have it., although statistics show that young people between 18 and 25 years old and older adults are the ones who are suffering the most depression. In Argentina, and according to the Argentine Pharmaceutical Confederation (CoFA), through the first half of 2022, approximately 5.72 million antidepressants were dispensed. And they are increasing.
Depression involves symptoms that last (minimum) more than two weeks: inability to concentrate, feelings of guilt and/or low self-esteem, problems sleeping, changes in appetite, sudden loss of weight or weight gain, hopelessness, irritability, suicidal fantasies and of harming oneself. The person feels drained, almost emptied. The “almost” is essential in these cases, because depression has degrees of severity (at least three), and the decisions will depend on that. therapies that the person needs to receive. from pharmacological (which should always be decided by the psychiatrist, because the variety of options is wide) until those linked to the psychological and behavioral.
But the fundamental thing is not to stigmatize or trivialize. Our mind is one more organ of the body, and if when a heart is sick we take care of it, how can we not deal with anything less than the brain and emotions?
