Also Known As: Clinical Depression, Major Depression, Unipolar Depression.
In life we all feel down, upset, and even depressed about issues that make sense to be depressed about. Things like a death, a breakup, losing your job, failing an exam, these are all normal reasons to feel depressed for a little while. But after a few days, weeks, or months you should be feeling your normal self again.
Major Depressive Disorder is an illness that causes an extreme feeling of deep sadness, hopelessness, and emptiness for a time usually lasting 2 years or longer. This is something that affects people feel every day of their lives. It feels like there is no point to getting out of bed in the morning because of the way you see yourself when you’re depressed.
You feel worthless, like no one will ever want to date you, be friends with you, or hire you for any career.You feel hopeless, like nothing will ever change and that every day of the rest of your life will be the same as a day when you’re depressed. You feel empty, there are hardly any emotions other than sadness that are left inside you.
Depression is a disease, an illness, it is not something someone can just snap out of at any given time. Everyone tends to become very irritating whether it’s your parents, siblings, or best of friends. You always want to be alone but you are saddened at the fact that you feel lonely and like there is no one there for you. The biggest problem with depression is that people have trouble expressing themselves because of their lack of emotion. This causes the affected person to keep all thoughts and emotions to themselves keeping everything bottled up. When someone does not speak up how are they supposed to get help? They can’t! After a long time, suicidal thoughts begin to flood your mind and it becomes clear to you that suicide is the only answer because you are so hopeless of the future and of your depression ever going away.
Now most people who are depressed do get suicidal thoughts, but never actually attempt suicide. That is why it is so important to not take any kind of depressant drugs while depressed. Alcohol greatly exaggerates your emotions and actions while intoxicated.
Many teens and adolescents that are Depressed are also usually shy. This makes it very hard for these people to get help because they can’t speak up for themselves. So they end up suffering much longer than should be. To overcome shyness and to possibly help yourself become a stronger and happier version of yourself i’ve listed below tips and techniques you can use to achieve your goals.
Causes of Major Depressive Disorder
Depression does not have a single cause. It arises in each person differently. A person’s life experience, genetic inheritance, age, sex, brain chemistry imbalance, hormone changes, substance abuse and other illnesses all play a role in the development of a depression.
Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder:
- Pessimism (The bad things in life outweigh the good things)
- Hypersensitivity to Rejection
- Shyness
- Suicidal Thoughts / Behaviour
- Feeling Hopeless
- Social Withdrawal
- Feeling as if you’re moving/ thinking in slow motion
- Low Self Confidence
- Impaired Judgement
- Extremely Low Energy
- Agoraphobia (Fear of leaving your home)
- Personal Neglect
- Loneliness
- Lack of Emotional Expression
- Irritated by Friends and Family
- Victimized Feeling
- Feeling Worthless
- Impaired Concentration
- Excessive Sleeping
Techniques you can try to feel happier 🙂
- Start a youtube channel, get your thoughts out
- Join an online community and talk to others
- Learn to say NO (being shy you may be someone who wants to please everyone else, learn to say no to people and please yourself)
- Make a Free Blog and Vent Your Feelings and Thoughts
- Exercise
- Eat Healthy
- Get Enough Sleep
- Try Something New
- Set Goals
- Do something that makes you happy each day
A Mindset to Put Into Action (Don’t Let Your Emotions Control Your Actions, Let Your Actions Control Your Emotions)
You can let your emotions such as being sad, empty, hopeless… control the way you act (laying in bed all day, staying home instead of going out with friends, not exercising, and eating unhealthy)
Or you can let your actions such as working out, going out with friends, eating healthy.. control the way you feel (Happier, proud of yourself, stronger, and like you’re taking control of your life).
Drugs
Many drugs can cause a person who is already depressed to become severely depressed.
The drugs to watch out for that can cause you to feel even worse are the following:
Alcohol – Drinking Alcohol while depressed can extremely exaggerate depression and suicidal thoughts. Alcohol and Depression are not a good combination at all.
Ecstasy/ Molly/ MDMA – Taking this drug will make you feel extremely happy, energetic, and loving for a few hours. In our brains we all have storage reserves for chemicals such as Serotonin and Dopamine . These chemicals are responsible for making us FEEL happiness, excitement and pleasure. When we get happy or excited, our brain releases small amounts of these chemicals from the reserves to the rest of our brain, keeping the reserves still filled with chemicals to feel happiness throughout the day. Ecstasy works by releasing the majority of these chemicals over the course of a few hours. After being high from ecstasy and your reserves are close to empty there is no doubt you will not be feeling as happy or normal as you usually do before you ingested this drug. Your brain will then take a few days to fully restore these chemical reserves. Ecstasy can damage the process in which serotonin and dopamine are created within your brain, which can leave you feeling depressed for a very long time.
People that are not depressed who take ecstasy will feel somewhat to completely depressed over the following days after being high. This drug is very easy to become dependent on because of the depression that follows after a high. People that have never been depressed before have experienced suicidal thoughts after being depressed from Molly for a few days.
This is seriously NOT a drug for anyone who is already depressed.
Be careful what you put into your body.
Sean.
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