How firmly this completely medical word has entered our everyday language! A slightly bad mood, lasting a day or two – problems at work, disagreements in the family … who doesn’t have them? – and immediately

Psychotherapy for depressive states is possible in various forms: individual, family and group.     The group form of psychotherapy gives patients additional opportunities to overcome their interpersonal problems in social situations.

Biological treatments for depression primarily include pharmacological therapy. At the same time, for the biological treatment of depressive spectrum disorders, the following can be used: electroconvulsive therapy, sleep deprivation, phototherapy,

In the medical literature, one can find some differences in the reported incidence rates of depression, a tendency to expand the range of their fluctuations and a progressive increase in

Among the psychological and social influences that contribute to the onset of depressive reactions, the patient’s attitude to his own disease plays a primary role . Distinguish between short-term and protracted reactions