Types of depression

Nowadays depression is very common among people. It is the psychological disorder. It is characterized by hopelessness, worthlessness and sadness. A person with depression finds himself pessimist and guilt and has inability to concentrate on thing and to make decisions. Some Common symptoms of depression are lack of energy; lose of appetite or weight or weight gain, difficulty in sleeping and slow moment and speech. Many people don't know the types of depression, as it not taken serious. A high rate of suicide is closely associated with depression.

There are four kinds of depression which are as fellows

1. Major depression.  It is the most common form of depression among people. A person with major depression finds a lack of interest in sexual activities and loses of weight and appetite. He does not show any interest in regular activities and consider that this kind of situation wills last forever he is unable to come out of it.
2. Atypical depression. A typical depression is a little different from major depression. It includes oversleeping, fatigued, overeating and weight gain. People with atypical depression believe that their mood is controlled by outside events. Episodes of atypical depression may last for a month or forever.
3. Psychotic depression. People with psychotic depression experience to hear and see imaginary, voices, sounds and visual that don't exist in real. This is known as hallucinations. The sufferer of psychotic depression gets afraid and imagines negative sounds and images.
4. Mania depression. It refers to emotional disorder that is characterized by change in mood and sometime a shift take place from depression to mania with rapidly. A high rate of suicide can be seen in people with mania depression.
5. Dysthymia. It is characterized by sad, depressed and melancholic. Most of the people are not aware to dysthmia as they don't feel any interest in thing and have the feelings of unimportance, dissatisfaction and fear. Mediation can be helpful to diminish dysthymia.

Such kinds of depression can be beneficial to comprehend the phenomena of depression and we can originate the way to cope with them. A person with depression cannot play an effective role in his life and he feels difficulty to tackle with his routine matter. Unfortunately depression does not gain much attention and it is considered a normal in life. Some time the intensity of depression may leads to suicide.

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