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Depression is a disease or the state of organism? Let us try to understand this together. Medicine determines depression by the following symptoms:

• the depressed, oppressed mood, the loss of interest to family and friends, daily matters, the work;
• insomnia, early awakening in the mornings or, on the contrary, excessively long sleep;
• irritability and uneasiness, rapid fatigue and the decline of forces;
• the absence of appetite and weight reduce or sometimes, on the contrary, overeating and a overweight;
• the incapacity to be concentrated and to make a decision;
• reduction of the sexual function;
• a feeling of uselessness and fault, feel of hopelessness;
• the frequent assaults of sobbing;
• suicidal thoughts.

From other side depression can be considered as response reaction to the stress. We constantly encounter stresses, solving these or other problems. For example, poor mark at the examination or not the delivery of test causes stress (strong negative emotions) larger or smaller degree.

We can experience stress, costing in the long burst, because of the difficulties on the work or the problems in the family, in the absence of the mutual love, when we want to make much, but there is no time for this, when there are unrealized possibilities, daily survey on the television set of criminal histories and many other reasons, whose enumeration can be continued almost to infinity. And after stress compulsorily begins the response (shielding) reaction of organism - state of depression.

In response to each even smallest (insignificant) stress the organism answers adequate depression. But small stresses even are useful for organism. They constantly train it, introducing into the state of activation or training (according to Canadian uchennogo Hans Selye’s terminology). The greater the stress, the it is stronger (the deeper) and the more prolonged the state of depression. On the time the depression of average gravity continues to two weeks.

In the heavy cases (with the strong stresses, for example the loss of close people) the depression can continue several months and even several years. This is why required pominaniye of deceased through 3, 9 and especially 40 days (”farewell with the soul”) helps to at first reduce stress stress, and then to leave the depression of the members of family, relatives and friends.

The organism will mobilize during the stress and it maximally expends its of energy and directing it to the protection of organism. After stress the organism is in the state of the “discharged storage battery”, exhaustion, i.e. depression, after which the gradual accumulation of energy (the “recharging” of organism) to the moment of the complete restoration of forces and energy begins. The process (duration) of depression or braking of organism in the time (duration) approximately is three times longer than the time of the action of stress situation (process of the excitation of organism) and this one must take into account with overcoming of the consequences of any stress, the large or smallest.

The processes (two curves) of excitation and braking of organism with the different stress situations are given on the graph. the 1st graph reflects the reaction of organism to the small (small amplitude and duration) stress, with which we meet daily. Curve 2 reflects the reaction of organism to the strong stress. In the negative phase the organism is most energetically weakened and against this background can be developed different diseases, especially in the periods of the prolonged depression. According to the statistics to 70% of somatical diseases rotating into the polyclinic apropos they have one or other form or another of depression.

And so, the “bombardment” of organism with small stresses and protection by small and short on the time depressions this usual state of the organism, which accustomed to a constant protection from the environment. Strong stresses, take away much energy in organism and is caused deep (on the graph the depth of depression it is noted by section VS) and prolonged depression (strong retardation of organism with significant reduction in the activity). Organism gradually accumulates energy, trying to return to the state of dynamic equilibrium, which was in it to the stress, i.e., it is self-restored.

It would be desirable to focus attention, that heaviest and most dangerous for the appearance of other illnesses time for the organism during the depression comes not immediately after the end of the action of stress (point A, for curved 2), but after some time, from the end of the action of stress (point v. In this time interval it is necessary especially to follow its health. It is possible to draw the single-valued conclusion that the stress is the reason for any depression (depression). Depression - unspecific reaction of organism to the stress. Small depressions, with the weak stresses - usual state of the organism, which the organism, as a rule, manages independently. Strong, major depressions, this already disease and without the aid of doctor to here no longer manage.

As a rule, in melancholic stress reactions are most frequently connected with the excitation of constitution, for example by anxiety or with fright, by phobia or by neurotic anxiety. For cholerics - typical stress reaction - anger. This is why they more frequently suffer hypertension, stomach ulcer, ulcerous colitis. In phlegmatic persons under the action of stress the activity of the thyroid gland is reduced, exchange of substances slows down and can rise the content of sugar in the blood, which leads to the diabetes state. In the stress situations they “press” on the food, as a result of which they can become fat. Sanguine persons with their strong nervous system more easily in all transfer stresses.

In the ideal, to any stress the organism must not react at all or with the minimum reaction, but practically such in the life he is not and in order to reach this it is necessary the persistent and prolonged training of organism. People, which do not manage the culture of health, especially young people try to solve problems connected with the stresses and the depression with the aid of the narcotic substances (most rapid, lightest and accessible way for overcoming of stress or output from the depression, but also the most harmful for the health). In the consequence in them appears dependence (constant thrust) to such narcotic substances as tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and so on from which without the outside aid already it cannot be been freed. And these problems of personal change gradually to state (fight of state with the drug mafia, the treatment of druggies, etc.). Traditional medicine solves these problems by its not less effective, but absolutely safe for the health methods. And in order to descend to the minimum of the consequence of stress to the organism it it manufactured the specific recommendations and councils.