Types of Depression
As it is already discussed about, what is depression? We all must know it. Well for those who had not read the previous articles, a very short description is done here. Depression is a psychological disorder, or a neurological disease in which the state/mood of a person changes to sadness or unhappiness. This sadness can be due to any reason like downturn, recession in business or stress of workload. In other words we can say that the mental condition of a person is disturbed and he faces difficulty in living his daily life.
Depression these days is a very serious issue, as a lot of people are having this problem. Depression can be cured easily if it is identified in the early stages. As soon as the symptoms are noticed, doctor should be consulted. Now having a little over view of depression we should also see the various types of depression. Yes, Depression also has various types and differs from each other. Each of them has their own symptoms and diagnosis.
Types of Depression
Major Depression:
This is the most common form of depression. Their may be lots of people you know around suffering from this. It may seem to the patient that he is walking around with a lot of burden. The patient may seem disinterested in the activities or social gathering; he may feel hopeless all the time.
Atypical Depression:
This is slightly different from major depression as in this the patient may sometimes be happy. The symptoms which are seen in this are over eating, over sleeping, weight gain, and fatigue. The patient of atypical depression believes that all of the activities are controlled by the outside activities of success. This type of depression can last for a long period.
Psychotic Depression:
In this type of depression the patient starts seeing and hearing imaginary things like voices, images which actually didn’t exist. This is generally called hallucination. The images and sound which are seen or heard by the patient are negative or frightening.
Dysthymia:
A person who feels to be depressed, sad and considers himself as unimportant is considered to be the patient of Dysthymia. In this patient lives like this because he feels that it is his daily routine. The symptoms can be like the feeling of dissatisfied, frightened, unimportant and even do not enjoy their lives.
Manic Depression:
Sometimes manic depression also refers to bipolar depression. This is based on the mood of a person, or in other words we can say it is related to mood disorders. In this the patient has a lot of change in the mood which is very rapid, sometimes a very excited or elevated mood often called as mania, and sometimes depressive mood. The symptoms are the mixed episodes of mood. The patient suffering from this type of depression is always at a high risk as he may attempt to suicide.
Depression these days is a very serious issue, as a lot of people are having this problem. Depression can be cured easily if it is identified in the early stages. As soon as the symptoms are noticed, doctor should be consulted. Now having a little over view of depression we should also see the various types of depression. Yes, Depression also has various types and differs from each other. Each of them has their own symptoms and diagnosis.
Types of Depression
Major Depression:
This is the most common form of depression. Their may be lots of people you know around suffering from this. It may seem to the patient that he is walking around with a lot of burden. The patient may seem disinterested in the activities or social gathering; he may feel hopeless all the time.
Atypical Depression:
This is slightly different from major depression as in this the patient may sometimes be happy. The symptoms which are seen in this are over eating, over sleeping, weight gain, and fatigue. The patient of atypical depression believes that all of the activities are controlled by the outside activities of success. This type of depression can last for a long period.
Psychotic Depression:
In this type of depression the patient starts seeing and hearing imaginary things like voices, images which actually didn’t exist. This is generally called hallucination. The images and sound which are seen or heard by the patient are negative or frightening.
Dysthymia:
A person who feels to be depressed, sad and considers himself as unimportant is considered to be the patient of Dysthymia. In this patient lives like this because he feels that it is his daily routine. The symptoms can be like the feeling of dissatisfied, frightened, unimportant and even do not enjoy their lives.
Manic Depression:
Sometimes manic depression also refers to bipolar depression. This is based on the mood of a person, or in other words we can say it is related to mood disorders. In this the patient has a lot of change in the mood which is very rapid, sometimes a very excited or elevated mood often called as mania, and sometimes depressive mood. The symptoms are the mixed episodes of mood. The patient suffering from this type of depression is always at a high risk as he may attempt to suicide.
