Little-known facts about depression

Depression - one of the most common mental disorders, which affects about 10% of the adult population of the planet. Depression reduces self-esteem, loss of interest in life, there is a violation of thinking and inhibition of movements. At the moment, depression can be treated, and the main areas of treatment are pharmacotherapy, social therapy and psychotherapy.

The main factors that accompany depression

• Emotional and sexual abuse, family discomfort or death of someone close, a genetic predisposition
• Long-awaited positive events, such as marriage, inheritance, can lead to depression.
• More than 35% of people who suffer from depression have harmful habits: smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, gambling.
• Women have a 40% more risk of suffering from depression. Sexual dependence is associated with estrogens, which are in the female body and can cause psychological problems.
• The lack of testosterone in the body also affects the development of depression. In this regard, men over 50 are more likely to experience psychiatric disorders precisely because of a decrease in the amount of testosterone due to age.
• The results of recent experiments have shown that in people who suffer from depression, the level of bone density decreases, which can cause the appearance of osteoporosis.
• People who have depression due to the death of their loved one have a chance to stay for many years with a chronic mental disorder.

Previously unknown facts about depression

• Depression is most common in countries with highly developed economies.
• In the US, more than 7% of children under the age of 15 suffer from depression. Statistics show that the indicators are growing every year.
• People with mental disorders are more likely to have flu and colds than healthy people.
• People with depression are more likely to be hospitalized due to heart attacks and diseases related to blood circulation disorders.
• Depending on the region, in the Middle Ages, mentally unhealthy people were considered inviolable because of the protection of dark or light forces.
• The first psychiatric hospital was opened in the second half of the 18th century in the US, Virginia.
• Sigmund Freud, the luminary of psychiatry, noted that depression is anger that is directed only at oneself.
• In childhood, depression can develop from lack of attention and affection.
• More than 60% of mentally unhealthy people refuse treatment and do not recognize themselves as sick.
• There are cases when depression contributed to the development of malignant tumors.
• More than 6,000,000 US residents are hospitalized each year with signs of manic depression.
• Depression can intensify asthma attacks in children under 10 years old.
• During pregnancy, depressive disorder can cause premature birth, as well as complications in the baby.
• Sociological surveys show that in families where parents suffer from depression, children become too restless.
• Depression can cause an exacerbation of rheumatoid arthritis.

Recent studies by American scientists have shown that more than 45% of elderly people with rheumatoid arthritis also suffer from depression and uncontrolled anxiety attacks. Doctors noted that chronic and age-related diseases are often accompanied by a restless state, anxiety, which, if lack of attention leads to mental disorders. A study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) consisted of monitoring people over 50 years old suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Polls and indications of the attending physicians showed that patients who were seen with 2 and 3 degrees of depression, attacks of exacerbation of the disease were observed 2.5 times more often than in mentally healthy people.