Sunday, September 5, 2010

Should You Be Anxious About Anxiety Depression?

By Colin Jones

A lot of people that burn the candle at both ends, use up not only all their physical strength, but they also tend to over extend their mental powers to the point where they obviously need some old style time out.

Many busy people who are unable to fathom 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 sanity to go haywire. Fortunately, if you are one of those who is unable to relax and who is constantly worried and fussing over things, there are various cures and treatments available for dealing with anxiety depression.

Anxiety depression is actually characterized by all sorts of irregular behaviour and erratic moods in the person who is suffering from it. This is usually due to specific stress triggers. Furthermore, a lot of people who tend to get easily worked up over stressful activities are actually prone to having anxiety depression. It is actually a matter of being strong-willed when it comes to facing difficult 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 actually save your mental health from going into a downward spiral.

When it comes to effectively curing oneself of a mental illness, you must keep in mind that one must be honest with oneself and assess what kind of depression or mental illness your suffers from. See to a reputable psychiatrist to get yourself diagnosed properly as well to get the right depression treatment. Here are the various kinds of depression:

Manic or Bipolar depression - characterized by sudden and extreme changes in one's mood where one minute the sufferer is in an elevated 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 - characterized by a perfunctory similarity with bipolar depression, although in this case, it has been seen to be a lot less severe. However, any case of depression should be treated immediately.

Cyclothemia - is characterized by a similarity with Manic or Bipolar depression wherein the person suffering from this mental illness may occasionally suffer from severe changes in moods.

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

However, the kind of depression that has been shown to be most prevalent, is anxiety depression, which is actually recognizable by someone being overly anxious about given situations. Anxiety is a normal behaviour that actually will help someone cope more with certain stressful activities like a first date or a gruelling exam the following day. Anxiety helps you get ready for facing certain "difficult situations". Therefore, anxiety is actually quite a good, natural emotion.

Anxiety depression however, is just the opposite, but it should not be dismissed as a "case of the nerves". Anxiety depression is in actuality an illness that can be caused from the biological make-up of an individual, 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 usual. Anxiety attacks are more frequent, even absurdly so at times.

Suffers can get anxious even when there is no obvious explanation that calls for them to behave in such a manner. Those people suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder often show a lot of characteristics varying from from lack of sleep, to being unable to relax, getting tired easily, inability to concentrate and suffering from depression. This sort of anxiety depression is still curable though.

You should consult a reputable cognitive behavioural therapist who will recommend the therapy that you need to help you relax. Furthermore, prescribed medicines are a must to help these individuals battle anxiety attacks, assist them to calm down and help them relax.

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