Depression affects everyone, i should repeat that, cause i don’t want that to get unnoticed, Depression affects everyone , whether its a relative , a significant other, a child, friend or teacher, but everyone is affected by it.
Further, everyone will be depressed at some point in time in their life. That’s a fact, no one will escape these sad feelings, or escape the effects of it, including the President of the United States, the prime minister of england, or for that matter, the Queen of England or most importantly, speaking as a Dom, the submissive of your life, who you must protect and care for and love unconditionally.
So its important that we understand what depression is, what it isn’t , and how we can help one another. It’s all about helping for those of us in the medical field, even if we do get an adrenaline rush. (Yes, i am speaking to you , ma’am, and I thank you for being there and helping others)
A major depressive episode is indicated by the presence of at least five of the following during a sustained 2 week period, (don’t worry, i will explain all these terms ) persistent negative mood,(negative thoughts, like i am not good, i am not pretty, i am not worthy of this man’s attention), diminished satisfaction or pleasure from engaging in nearly all activities, (the activities that u normally love and want to do, you have no interest in, like playing golf or cooking or watching movies), significant weight loss, chronic insomnia, (not sleeping) or hypersomnia, (sleeping too much, like 10-12 hours), agitation, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, difficulty concentrating, and focusing, and suicidal ideation. You only need 5 of these symptoms over a period of two weeks.
Depression is common, it affects 3-5% of the population at any one time. There are about 330 million people just in the United States, that’s 16.5 million people at any one time. It’s significant and it hurts.
What is depression? For the most part, its a lowering of a chemical in our brain, and the treatment is to give medication to just increase this chemical in our brain. The chemical in our brain is called serotonin, and for the most part, not always, about 80% (in my opinion) of the depressions is caused by a lowering of serotonin. Treatment is a SSRI, which means a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, which just allows more serotonin in the brain to become more effective and take away our depressive symptoms.
Please note, this is not all depressions, there are other causes, and other treatments, and that will be discussed in another blog.
Hope this helps, and be happy.
Rob. And if you like this blog, check out my subspace and subdrop blog, scroll down please , thanks
