General Topic

Depression

What is Depression?

Changes in brain chemistry affect a persons mind and body making them feel miserable.

Symptoms of Depression

A person with depression may experience most of these symptoms. They may:

• feel tired all the time

• have sleep problems

• become upset easily over little things

• feel sad without really knowing why, possibly even breaking into tears without knowing why

• have a decreased or even eliminated sex drive.

• have a headache most of the time, not always severe headaches but persistent

• chronic pain other than a headache such as a backache or pain in the abdomen

• have little enthusiasm for things they used to look forward to

• lose or gain weight

• have constipation or other digestive symptoms

• have difficulty concentrating, making decisions or remembering to do things

• feel worthless and ineffective knowing that they are not.

Treatment

There are several drugs which are effective in fighting depression.