Sunday 4 October 2009

Should You be Anxious about Anxiety Depression?

By Colin Jones

A lot of people who over extend themselves, use up not only all their physical strength, but they also tend to over-extend their mental powers to the point where they simply need a proper holiday.

Many busy people who are unable to understand the idea of relaxing and taking time of from work, as well as from their worries, have nervous breakdowns, anxiety depression and all sorts of mental illnesses that cause a person's mental health to waver. Fortunately, if you are one of those people who is unable to relax and who is always worried and fussing over things, there are various cures and treatments available for dealing with anxiety depression.

Anxiety depression is actually characterized by all kinds of irregular behaviour and erratic mood swings in the person suffering from it. This is usually due to specific stress triggers. Furthermore, many people who tend to get easily worked up over stressful situations are in fact prone to having anxiety depression. It is actually a matter of being strong-willed when it comes to facing problematic and stressfull activities. It may be pretty hard to do at first, but trying to be calm and cool in times of extreme pressure is what will prevent your mental health from going into a downward spiral.

When it comes to effectively curing oneself of a mental disease, you must keep in mind that you must be completely honest with yourself and assess exactly what kind of depression or mental illness one suffers from. Visit a reputable psychiatrist to get yourself correctly diagnosed as well to get the correct depression treatment. Here is a list of the various types of depression:

Manic or Bipolar depression - is recognizable by sudden and extreme mood swings. One minute (day or week) the sufferer is in a state of euphoria while the next minute (day or week) the sufferer is in a personal hell.

Postpartum depression - characterized by prolonged sadness and a feeling of emptiness in a new mother where physical stress during child birth and / or an uncertain sense of responsibility towards the new born baby are some of the possible factors why some new mothers go through this.

Dysthimia - is characterized by a perfunctory similarity with bipolar (manic) depression, although in this case, it has been proven to be a lot less severe. However, doctors say that any case of depression should be treated immediately.

Cyclothemia - is recognizable by a similarity with Manic or Bipolar depression wherein the individual suffering from this mental disease may sometimes suffer from severe mood swings.

Seasonal Affective Disorder - is recognizable by falling into a rut only during specific seasons (i.e. Winter, Spring, Summer or Autumn). However, studies show that more people become depressed during the Winter and Autumn seasons. And lastly, mood swings, where a person's mood can shift from happy to sad to angry in a relatively short period of time.

But the type of depression that has actually been proven to be most common among people is anxiety depression, which is actually characterized by the state of being overly anxious about things. Anxiety is a normal behaviour that'll actually help a person cope more with certain stressful activities like a first date or a gruelling exam the following day. Anxiety actually helps you get psyched up towards facing certain "difficult situations"; anxiety therefore is actually a good thing.

Anxiety depression however, is quite the opposite. However, it should not be lightly dismissed as a "case of the jitters". Anxiety depression is in actuality an disease that can be caused by the actual DNA of a person, or, in other words, it can be an hereditary illness.

Also, there are actually various types of anxiety depression too, each of which has its own unique characteristics. Take for example Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD. This kind of anxiety depression is a lot more complicated than the average anxiety depression, in spite of it possibly being a day-to-day problem for those who suffer from this kind of anxiety depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder actually makes the individual a lot more paranoid than normal. Anxiety attacks are more frequent, even absurdly so at times.

Suffers can become anxious even when there is no apparent explanation for them to behave in that way. Those people suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder often show several symptoms varying from from lack of sleep, to being unable to relax, becoming tired easily, inability to concentrate and suffering from depression. However, this sort of anxiety depression is still curable though.

You ought to visit a reputable cognitive behavioural therapist who will recommend the therapy that you require to help you to relax. Furthermore, prescribed medicines are a necessity to help sufferers combat anxiety attacks, assist them to calm down and help them relax.

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