Depression and a sudden mental illness caused by accumulating factors
Depression is a sudden disease that occurs without warning or symptoms that predispose it to its occurrence, but this does not rule out the existence of common factors among many people with this mental state that made them more vulnerable to it than others.
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The spread of the disease in the family
About two-thirds of people with depression have family members or relatives who have had the disease before them
The incidence of serious and chronic diseases
Depression may occur to some who develop diseases that cause psychological or physical harm to sufferers such as epilepsy, fibrous head injuries, heart or cerebral stroke, and obesity.
Great psychological problems and stress
The sudden loss of parents and loved ones or family and family problems, marriage, divorce, the collapse of moral principles and values in modern societies, poverty and the inability to provide means and means of decent living in modern societies, it is a group of daily psychological pressures that a person suffers from in modern societies, all of which are problems and pressures Psychological lead to depression as a psychological response to these problems
Alcohol and drug addiction
According to medical statistics, cases of depression among alcohol and drug addicts are more prevalent compared to individuals who do not abuse alcohol or drugs at all or use them for short and long periods of time. At the same time, according to medical statistics, depressed patients use more alcohol and drugs compared to non-depressed patients
Age
The age of youth and adolescence has become, according to mental health experts, one of the most difficult periods of life for many young people and adolescents in the modern era , as they tend to express their inner feelings towards the requirements of modern society and its many problems by showing feelings of anger and rebellion, and in fact, according to the opinion of mental health experts, The failure to address depression in adolescents carries with it the risk of patients committing suicide, and the evidence for the increase in the suicide rate for more than three types among groups of adolescents and youth and of both sexes
Symptoms of depression
The speed of feeling fatigue, lethargy and fatigue
Decreased or increased appetite to eat.
Ideas about the meaning of life and wishing to get rid of it.
Low mood and feeling depressed.
Loss of enjoyment of time and activities that were previously achieved.
Sleep disturbances such as insomnia and sometimes excessive sleep.
Feeling guilty . Decreased ability to focus and inability to make decisions. Sometimes physical symptoms such as headache
