Different types of depression manifest depending on their circumstances and the symptoms displayed.
Generally symptoms of depression impact on a person’s health, work, school, social functioning and family.
Symptoms include lack of enjoyment, drop in self-esteem, feelings of worthlessness and sometimes guilt or regret that appears inappropriate at the time.
A drop in libido and lethargy coincides with feelings of exhaustion or the inability to make any effort to do the simplest of things. A general feeling of malaise or depletion dominates a person’s everyday mood leaving an ongoing sense of vulnerability.
Reactive depression, as the name suggests is a depression experienced as a reaction to a circumstance, situation or stressors that have occurred in a persons life; eg, death of a loved one or close family member or distressful event.
Endogenous depression, is a long term depression often associated with a bio-chemical content, can be genetic in nature that comes and goes, sometimes for a period of months or years. Best treated with medication and psychiatric intervention.
Unipolar depression consists of continual feelings of depression that deepen in cycles returning to the previous lesser levels of depression. Often a biochemically-based manifestation of psychosis can be part of the symptomology of a narcotic psychosis.
Best treated by medication and psychiatric treatment as a preference over psychotherapeutic intervention.
Bi-polar manic depression is a form of psychosis that presents as symptoms of extreme elation swinging to severe depression accompanied with auditory or visual hallucination, disconnection from reality accompanied by diverse physiological/psychological symptoms. Can be part of the symptomology of a narcotic psychosis. Best treated by medication and psychiatric treatment as a preference over psychotherapeutic intervention.
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