Is depression a permanent condition?

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asked Dec 14, 2021 in Womans Health by Milkshake11 (2,650 points)
Is depression a permanent condition?

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answered Dec 14, 2021 by Riley99098 (2,060 points)
Depression is a permanent condition but you can do some things and have therapy to help with the depression.

There's no cure for depression, but there are lots of effective treatments.

People can recover from depression and live long and healthy lives.

Depression can sometimes change your personality.

Specific traits that are linked with depression include: Neuroticism/negative emotionality.

Sadness, moodiness, instability, and anxiety. Extraversion/positive emotionality: Sociability, talkativeness, expressiveness, and excitability.

The findings suggest that self-reported personality traits do not change after a typical episode of major depression.

Future studies are needed to determine whether such change occurs following more severe, chronic, or recurrent episodes of depression.

If you don't treat depression the depression will usually get worse and worse until the person cannot take it anymore.

Years of untreated depression may lead to neurodegenerative levels of brain inflammation.

That's according to a first-of-its-kind study showing evidence of lasting biological changes in the brain for those suffering with depression for more than a decade.

The last stage of depression is persistent depressive disorder.

Persistent depressive disorder is depression that lasts for 2 years or more .

People may also refer to this as dysthymia or chronic depression.

Persistent depression might not feel as intense as major depression, but it can still strain relationships and make daily tasks difficult.

The 4 major causes of depression are family history, illness and health issues, medication, drugs and alcohol and money problems.

Depression can start off several different ways but usually depression starts off when someone is stressed out or is even stuck in a bad situation and cannot change it.

The depression doesn't spring from simply having too much or too little of certain brain chemicals.

Rather, there are many possible causes of depression, including faulty mood regulation by the brain, genetic vulnerability, stressful life events, medications, and medical problems.

There's no single cause of depression.

It can occur for a variety of reasons and it has many different triggers.

For some people, an upsetting or stressful life event, such as bereavement, divorce, illness, redundancy and job or money worries, can be the cause.

Different causes can often combine to trigger depression.

You can be born depressed as it's possible to be depressed if your parents are depressed.

You're more likely to be depressed and suffer from depression if your parents or at least one of your parents is depressed.

However no matter what someone says everyone does get depressed at some point  in their lives so in reality everyone is born with depression.

However some people are less depressed than other people while some people suffer from depression more severely.

Scientists believe that as many as 40 percent of those with depression can trace it to a genetic link.

Environmental and other factors may make up the other 60 percent.

There's no single cause of depression. It can occur for a variety of reasons and it has many different triggers.

For some people, an upsetting or stressful life event, such as bereavement, divorce, illness, redundancy and job or money worries, can be the cause.

Different causes can often combine to trigger depression.

Women are nearly twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with depression.

Depression can occur at any age.

Some mood changes and depressed feelings occur with normal hormonal changes.

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