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Signs of depression in women

The manifestation of depression in women is characterized by the suppression of various mental functions: a deterioration in mood, a slowdown in the rate of associative processes, and motor retardation. Outwardly, this is manifested by a sad facial expression, reduced activity and performance. With depression, a woman loses interest in her family, children, and people around her. Often they can not cope with the household, they stop caring for children. Interest in favorite activities is lost , all drives decrease, sleep is disturbed. Women suffering from depression stop looking after their appearance. They usually look older than their age. Also reduced self-esteem, patients feel no to what is not capable. Going back in time, women are looking for failures and mistakes everywhere . This is called the idea of ​​self-accusation. The future is seen as bleak and hopeless. Patients feel like bad mothers, wives, and they can not correct the situation due to the suppression of mental processes. Feeling guilty before relatives, and in order not to burden them, suicide attempts are made. Suicidal thoughts can arise with unbearable mental pain, melancholy.                          

Classic depression is characterized by mood swings. In the morning, the patients feel worse, by the evening their condition improves.  

The severity of depression can range from mild to unbearable sadness and despair. Severe depression is characterized by persistent depressed mood, suicidal thoughts, the presence of delusional ideas of guilt. And also a decrease in instincts.    

In dependence on the prevalence of different symptoms secrete isolated melancholy, apathetic, alarming, and anesthetic al. Depression.     

Apathetic depression is characterized by complete indifference to one’s condition, relatives, events, adynamia to complete immobility, refusal to eat, avoidance of contact with others. Such depression is characterized by a state of emotional insensibility, a loss of the ability to rejoice. Suicide attempts are common in anesthetic depression.    

Frequent companions of depression are anxiety or internal unreasonable anxiety, which can be manifested by motor excitement, fussiness. In this case, we are talking about anxiety depression. Often, patients do not find a place for themselves, feel the sensation of an impending disaster. The older the patient, the more anxiety is in the structure of depression.       

Masked or somatized depression, in which the true picture of depression is hidden behind somatic complaints. It is characterized by symptoms such as changes in appetite, tachycardia, brittle hair and nails, complaints from the gastrointestinal tract, musculoskeletal system. During the examination, somatic diseases are usually not detected, and the patients continue to be persistently examined. When diagnosing depression, the patient is aware of his painful condition.        

In contrast to the endogenous depression that can occur for no apparent reason, psychogenic depression develops in the presence of traumatic situations (loss of a loved one, loss of a job, and so on) on the situation that caused the depression is reflected in the picture of the disease. After the situation is resolved, recovery occurs.      

The clinical features of depression depend on its genesis, the patient’s age, and other factors.   

The manifestation of depression in women is characterized by the suppression of various mental functions: a deterioration in mood, a slowdown in the rate of associative processes, and motor retardation. Outwardly, this is manifested by a sad facial expression, reduced activity and performance. With depression, a woman loses interest in her family, children, and people around her. Often they can not cope with the household, they stop caring for children. Interest in favorite activities is lost , all drives decrease, sleep is disturbed. Women suffering from depression stop looking after their appearance. They usually look older than their age. Also reduced self-esteem, patients feel no to what is not capable. Going back in time, women are looking for failures and mistakes everywhere . This is called the idea of ​​self-accusation. The future is seen as bleak and hopeless. Patients feel like bad mothers, wives, and they can not correct the situation due to the suppression of mental processes. Feeling guilty before relatives, and in order not to burden them, suicide attempts are made. Suicidal thoughts can arise with unbearable mental pain, melancholy.                          

Classic depression is characterized by mood swings. In the morning, the patients feel worse, by the evening their condition improves.  

The severity of depression can range from mild to unbearable sadness and despair. Severe depression is characterized by persistent depressed mood, suicidal thoughts, the presence of delusional ideas of guilt. And also a decrease in instincts.    

In dependence on the prevalence of different symptoms secrete isolated melancholy, apathetic, alarming, and anesthetic al. Depression.     

Apathetic depression is characterized by complete indifference to one’s condition, relatives, events, adynamia to complete immobility, refusal to eat, avoidance of contact with others. Such depression is characterized by a state of emotional insensibility, a loss of the ability to rejoice. Suicide attempts are common in anesthetic depression.    

Frequent companions of depression are anxiety or internal unreasonable anxiety, which can be manifested by motor excitement, fussiness. In this case, we are talking about anxiety depression. Often, patients do not find a place for themselves, feel the sensation of an impending disaster. The older the patient, the more anxiety is in the structure of depression.       

Masked or somatized depression, in which the true picture of depression is hidden behind somatic complaints. It is characterized by symptoms such as changes in appetite, tachycardia, brittle hair and nails, complaints from the gastrointestinal tract, musculoskeletal system. During the examination, somatic diseases are usually not detected, and the patients continue to be persistently examined. When diagnosing depression, the patient is aware of his painful condition.        

In contrast to the endogenous depression that can occur for no apparent reason, psychogenic depression develops in the presence of traumatic situations (loss of a loved one, loss of a job, and so on) on the situation that caused the depression is reflected in the picture of the disease. After the situation is resolved, recovery occurs.      

The clinical features of depression depend on its genesis, the patient’s age, and other factors.   

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