Depression and its Types

The world, ‘depression’ simply reflects a state of mind where a person is very much depressed or disheartened. Now the face of this word has changed a lot, it has now turned up into a major mental disease which the whole world is suffering from. Whether it may be a child, a teenager, a young person or an old man, anyone can get affected of it. These days, children have to bear tremendous load of studies from school. Few children who are not yet ready for such pressure may develop depression out of it. Teenagers when struggling for their career can face depression and finally end up in pathetic health conditions. Working persons being overloaded of their office work can be caught by the clutch of depression. An old man being mistreated by his family person may fall to depression. Hence it is just an ongoing process without an end.

Doctors and psychiatrists are always working on different aspects of depression but still it has been a challenge for them. A detailed diagnosis has revealed certain results about the types of depression that can be seen among patients. Major depression is a type where patient almost behave like an insane person, talking rubbish and acting like crazy. Bipolar depression results in some sort of split personality where person can sometime behave normally and the other time may feel so discouraged and disheartened. Psychotic depression leads to some very unusual change in person’s behavior, change may even be dangerous to other. Manic depression leaves patient in a state of unconsciousness which he may not remember after regaining consciousness. Seasonal affective depression is not a permanent disorder, it may occur on certain specific circumstances or situation which that person may not bear and fall into a state of depression.