Depression is more than just sadness and can have a serious impact on one's life, it is a debilitating disease. This paper will explain how depression has been treated throughout mankind. It will explore the understandings of how depressions was discovered and what people believed triggered it. University Health Services at Berkley believes there are 3 common symptoms of depression; Physical, Behavioral, and Emotional. Depression doesn't have any boundaries, it can affect all ages, gender and races (Chronic Depression, Pettit, PhD, Joiner, PhD). There is multiple treatments for depression but the most common treatments are; medications, therapy, and self-care. If left untreated, depression can have devastating effects on the person suffering and those in that person's life.
Depression.
Depression is defined as a mental illness in which a person experiences deep, unshakable sadness and loss of interest in all activities. Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses, it affects all people regardless of sex, race, ethnicity or class. Some depression seems to come out of the blue, even when things are going well for someone. Others seem to have an obvious cause such as a conflict, financial difficulty, or a personal failure, psychological and environmental stressors can contribute to a depressive episode. Most psychologist believe depression results from an interaction between stressful life events and a person's biological and psychological vulnerabilities (Historical Understandings of Depression, Nemade, Ph.D., Reiss, Ph.D., and Dombeck, Ph.D. 2007). .
Depression just isn't caused from life events, there are Biological Factors that can cause depressions. Some forms of depression can run in families, this seems to be the case with bipolar depression, and to a lesser extent, severe major depressions. Studies have shown that certain brain chemicals called neurotransmitters play an important role in regulating moods and emotions.
