DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

Depression is a very serious illness. The disorder already affected portion of general population. It often interferes with the normal functioning of the body and cause emotional pain and suffering of the mind. A man with serious depressive disorder destroyed his will to live. It gives him an unsound relationship with the people he loved especially his family.

It is called the whole-body illness affecting the body, mood and thoughts. There is problem in eating and sleeping. He treated his self differently. He has different perception about things he knew. The disorder is an indication of personal weakness and differences in his line of thought. He has no initiative to heal his body and mind. He is going down instead of going better. Keeping away from seeking medical treatment will put his symptoms to remain in weeks, months and in many years of inattention disregarding the opportunity for the healing, aside from interference in the ability to eat, sleep and enjoyment to his favorite sport.

Dysthymia is a long-term chronic symptoms not disabling but failed to function well in steaming fully. He has no desire in feeling good because he did not care.

Bipolar disorder has cycles of depression and elation mania. There was mood swing changing interest from time to time. It may be dramatic, rapid and gradual. It affected the way he think, his correct judgment and social interaction with other people that later on cause him serious embarrassment.

Depression has persistent anxiety, empty mood (silent, unfocused). He has sad face as if the burden is in his shoulder. He was very pessimistic in his belief. He treated a simple problem as hopeless case. He treated minor differences with guilt. He felt he was worthless and helpless.

He suddenly lost interest to the things he normally enjoyed. It doesn’t give him pleasure instead it bored him. His wakefulness affected his normal sleep pattern. His insomnia worsened. But if he is not awake, he oversleep.

There was problem in his appetite. He ate little or not at all. It cause him to lose weight. But if he likes to eat, he over-ate increasing his weight to pass the borderline level no longer in his normal weight anymore.

He easily got tired. He loses his energy that gives him fatigue and lost interest to work. He has suicidal tendencies thinking about death. He can’t stay long in one position. He was restless moving from position to another. He was irritable in minor differences. He easily explode his temper.

He was out-of-focus losing better concentration. He has memory loss unable to remember important events in his life. He has hard time making decision and rely on other people’s advice. He has chronic pain whatever the source. He often has headache and his digestive system is growling.

Most common cause of depressive episode are due to financial problem, difficult relationship, chronic illness that has no chance to recover, loss of someone he dearly love and changes in his life pattern he was not accustomed to do.

To determine the degree of depression, a thorough medical evaluation is needed including diagnostic tests.  It demands complete medical history, genetic history. The purpose is the degree of the illness when did it starts, how long it affected him, his treatment history and other questions to determine the deepness of the disorder and other factors that cause it.

To reduce the effect of depression, do the following:

-Don’t make difficult goal that you can’t handle.

-Don’t take bigger responsibility if you think you can’t carry the burden.

-Sept priorities to some of your function. Divide your task into smaller portion easy to manage.

-Don’t expect too much expectation of your ability for excellence. If you fail it hurts.

-Go with your friend, interact with them, to allocate time for socializing.

-If you are in the state of confusion, relax and join in physical action to be able to shift your mood to more useful one.

-Don’t easily get upset. Try to calm your nerve.

-Be positive in dealing with life.

Depression can be treated. Only complete medical examination is needed and better treatment is important by using effective drugs to be able to lessen or remove the impact of the effect of this kind of disorder.

WHY I AM SO TIRED?

There are many reasons of being tired. If the body losses energy we felt tired. Energy became the firing element for us to continue working from sunrise to sundown without feeling exhausted. Taking regular meals with fruits and vegetables let the body more responsive to our every action. All our organs demanded that the body do physical activities for the system to function well.

Fruits and vegetables contains vitamins and minerals and other nutrients. This are the energy-giving elements helpful to correct tiredness. Being tired is an early sign that something is happening in the body especially if it comes suddenly.

Depression is one cause the body to act differently. This is a very serious health condition that should be addressed immediately by the attending physician to determine the extend of the depressive behavior.

Feeling tired in performing work schedule or any other activities without any reasons can be suspected that something is developing inside the body. This is a warning sign that we have to look into with great attention.

There are many factors that lead to tiredness. It maybe physical, emotional and mental. Physically our muscles and joints become weak. There is a burning sensation in some parts of the body where the pain is located, then tiredness follows.

Stressful events of the day can cause tiredness of the body and mind. Wakefulness and mental alertness are decreasing. Even lack of sleep causes tiredness. If we are very tired we don't want to perform our physical activity and looked to have rest most of the time.

We are tired because our energy was depleted and incapable of handling the tasks. Re-charging is needed in order to continue working. If we are tired, we have difficulty to decide, poor motivation and lack of concentration. Our sleep pattern was disrupted causing restlessness and wakefulness. The body ache, mental alertness is gone.

How can we correct temporarily the tiredness we have during the day?

-We have to rest early without interruption.

-Relaxing music before going to sleep will do to remove ordinary stress.

-A very quite room can induce you to sleep.

-Taking good meals. Trying to be physically active.

If the tiredness persisted more severely for several days, then medical attention is necessary.

WHY DRUGS IS NOT GOOD FOR US

Witnessing the situation of our society today, we can conclude that harmful drugs became the headline news. In every corners of the globe, this drugs is impossible to control. Most of the users were delinquent teenagers hooked to the use of this prohibited drugs. In continuing this habit may cause dangers to mind and body.

Drugs injured the mind by paralyzing the brain cells where the power of reasoning was located. The degree of the damage was heavy curtailing the ability of the mind to think straight losing its proper coordination. It is fatal to those with heart disease. It increases the pulse rate demoralizing the regular heart beat pattern by altering its good performance.

There are uncontrollable behavior of laughter and threat. This behavior is very dangerous when the mind was disconnected and disrupted. He was in a period of dreamy state with eyes opened, looking somewhere without direction and completely lost in the world of the living. There were tremors in his hand and the body failed to hold anything and losing his strength. His focus was limited with sensitiveness to light.

He cannot walk straight. His body coordination was affected as if he was in a hang-over episode. His eyes became red and sleepy. He talked without direction losing the grip to reality. Dryness to the mouth was visible, nausea and vomiting were common.

No more care was given to his body. Long hair with dirty clothes. He did not mind at all. It was his world, the world of the living dead.

The reason of taking drugs was already deeply rooted in his heart and mind, as if he no longer exist. But it is not the way to justify his action. If this is a sign of protest, this is not the way the human mind work reasonably. He cannot change the world, but he can change his own life if he is willing to lead to the right direction.

We just hope that those delinquent persons may realize that what they did is not a healthful way of living instead a destruction to the inner fabric of their personality.