DEPRESSION - FACTS ABOUT DEPRESSION

According to a web source, depression is a mental health disorder characterised by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life. In a lame man's term, depression is a situation where you loss interest in what you find joy doing. 

 A lot of things can cause this - Lossing interest in what makes you happy, and that could be because of segregation, peer pressure, family problems, health problem, Economic or health problem.

 We could have a scenario whereby a bunch of people might be looking down, on a person maybe in a class setting, and that might intimidate the person causing him to fall into anixety, thereby if not taken care of - depression. 

  Depression is so deadly that can lead to suicide, drug addiction, acholic addiction, been violent at the smallest spark and so on. 

  How can we know or detect if someone is depressed? 

One quick way to know is been observant and conscious of the people around you. Ones you discover that a sudden change in a person, maybe someone who has a good temperament suddenly changes and becomes sad and always alone , it's a huge giveaway to tell that a person might be depressed. 

NB: not everyone who chooses to be in there own personal space is depressed. We have introverts who loves been alone.

Another way to detect is , the appearance of the individual . Ones a person turns to drug or alcohol, the psychology of the person changes. That affects the way he thinks, therefore the way he dresses. He starts dressing irrational in a careless way . Those are few of how depressed people behave . Psychiatrist and health experts would give more on what we ought to know about depressed people. 

  How can we help depressed people?

One way is be checking up on people and asking about how they are doing. Another way Is to make people comfortable, which would help speak out there aniexty. And to make them relax, we could take them out to relax at any relaxation centre. Another way is speaking out ones you discover something strange about a particular individual. You can tell health experts about what you've seen about the strange person. We should also try stop Bullies and stop making jest of person cause it can also lead to depression. 

    In our last article we talked about introverts, and we tried to at least differtiate between introvert and depressed people. In our next article we would talk about unique qualities of extroverts.