What is depression

Is one of the terms that describe satisfactory or unsatisfactory conditions overcome by the almost permanent feeling of sadness, tightness of the chest, and the desire to cry.
There are many people who suffer from male or female depression. It affects females more than males. The incidence of infection among females is 20%. In postnatal women it is 10%. In males it is 12%. 5% to 10% of females and 3% of males suffer from the so-called major depression, which is one of the most common psychological diseases. Experiments and studies have shown that animals such as monkeys and mice become infected.

Symptoms of depression

There are many symptoms that appear on a person with severe depression, including: the almost continuous feeling of severe depression, feeling tightness in the chest, as well as the feeling of permanent sadness and the desire to cry at any time, and the reluctance to talk to other people, and the sense of loneliness and isolation, Enjoy daily activities such as: work, or practice hobbies and activities, and the symptoms of also weakness or loss of sexual desire for both sexes, both female and male.

In addition to the symptoms that we mentioned, the emergence of other symptoms suffered by the patient of depression for at least two weeks:

Feeling too large and too guilty to be self-contempt and loss of confidence.
Lack of ability to think and focus in addition to the inability to make a decision
The constant feeling of tiredness and tiredness that drives him to not work daily activities
Feeling insomnia and inability to sleep.
Feeling tense as well as slowness and psychological and motor irritability
Chronic headaches, and chronic lower back pain
Irritable bowel syndrome,
Chest pain
ED in men or women.

Causes of Depression

There are many factors that affect the emergence of depression, including heredity, including organic factors such as some organic diseases such as stroke, paralysis paralysis, paralysis of the thyroid, and some drugs taken by the patient that makes the person feel depressed, in addition to several psychological and social factors play the largest role In the emergence of symptoms of depression, such as the loss of a lover, and the occurrence of certain economic conditions, and the consumption of alcohol and spirits, as well as imbalance in the balance of neurotransmitters; as studies have shown that the lack of some chemicals in the brain and nerves, Neurons such as serotonin have an effect on the appearance of depression, so researchers are now seeking to focus on drugs that help treat depression. Pregnant women who suffer from postpartum depression may suffer from depression due to hormonal changes due to pregnancy. The proportion of pregnant women who feel postpartum depression is 10%

Treatment of depression

There are many methods to treat depression such as: psychotherapy, behavioral, cognitive, as well as drug therapy, especially modern drugs that treat depression. Many of the chronic and chronic conditions have been cured. These medicines are safe, have little side effects on their users, and are not addictive. The effect of these drugs appears after at least two weeks, and the treatment period may last for one year or more.

The depression also deals with the Qur’an and its continuous reading, where the reading reveals sadness and compassion, in addition to the prophetic traditions, and the admonitions of sadness, fear, anger and distress, and the way to pray to Allaah.