2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Each psychologist has his own skeletons in the closet and his own triggers - not to mention the treated cockroaches, which, although they give odds to the "common cockroach", still do not go anywhere. For me, one of the triggers is talking about depression. Here are all these home-grown "be a man", "pull yourself together", "you just need to get distracted", "don't push it - it happens to everyone."
A very good friend called me a few years ago.
- Hi, - he said cheerfully into the phone, - do you take men with cunt suckers into therapy?
“Who’s that diagnosed to you,” I gasped in surprise.
- Yes, my wife says that I am a fool toil, but something really shitty for me. Will I stop by tomorrow morning? I can’t bear it until evening. Here it is just painful.
- Maybe it's better today? I suggested cautiously.
- No, all the rules. I am a whiskey and a bainki.
The conversation seemed completely normal, my friend seemed adequate, but I did not sleep well. The next day he did not come. In the morning he had breakfast, walked the dog, kissed his wife and went out the window of his beautiful apartment on the 21st floor. "Pizdostradashki", you say?
When someone in a group or on a forum writes that they have cured depression with "sex, massage, relaxing music and yoga," it affects me like a red rag on a bull. Of course, all this is wonderful and useful. But I'm really angry because people with real depression are wasting precious time when they come across these pseudo “success stories”. In an attempt to relieve pain, they do anything but the obvious - see a specialist.
Depression is a diagnosis. It is put by a specialist. Treatment varies depending on the type, but in most cases, medication is indispensable.
"Russian blues", described by the classic, happens to everyone from time to time. Unfortunately, this brooding sadness, multiplied by reflection, is as far from "depression" as a dream is from death. Often, by the word "depression" we mean only one of the symptoms: bad mood, drowsiness, apathy or irritability, unwillingness or inability to do something, problems in your personal life, impaired libido or sexual dysfunction. In fact, all this "bouquet" is characteristic of depression, and experts distinguish up to 10 types of a depressive state. All of them are treated in different ways - depending on the severity and duration. Something can be solved with the help of psychotherapy, but somewhere you can't do without pills.
Most often, psychologists are faced with a single (unipolar) depressive episode (from 2 weeks to a year) or brief depressive disorder (several short episodes lasting up to 2 weeks).
Classic clinical depression - these are already recurring depressive phases (aka PDD - recurrent depressive disorder) that can last for years. Despite the fact that from time to time a person “emerges” and his condition normalizes, depression covers him over and over again, making it difficult to live, work and build partnerships.
Dysthymia - this is already a chronic depression, more like a lifestyle. A sort of "underlife" with muted colors, a gray haze on all emotions and a lack of clear outlines.
There is also two types of bipolar depression (former manic-depressive psychosis). In this disorder, normal human behavior alternates with periods ("phase") of increased excitability (manic euphoria "on top of the world"), then with sharp "falls" into a depressed state (depression a la "give soap and a rope") …
At SDD - Mixed Anxiety Depression Disorder - the depressive state is complemented by increased anxiety. And if it came to depressive psychotic episode, then the person was visited by the so-called "delusional depression". In general, psychosis is a mental condition that is accompanied by auditory and visual hallucinations and delusions. It is always treated in a hospital.
The tendency to "seize" a bad mood and frequent mood swings (emotional swings from drowsiness to panic attacks) are characteristic of atypical depression … And what is popularly called the "spring-autumn exacerbation" may be seasonal depressive disorder.
In any case, whatever concerns you, your physical and mental health must be taken seriously. If life is not sweet, do not rush to suppress problems with alcohol or break into meditative practices. Check hormonal levels, rule out thyroid problems, visit a gynecologist (or urologist), talk to a neurologist. If there are no physiological reasons for concern, listen to yourself. What is it: fatigue or unwillingness to live? An objective fear of the unknown, inherent in everyone, or an overwhelming anxiety that interferes with life? If your condition significantly worsens the quality of your life, this is an alarming signal.
Do not self-diagnose. Do not be lazy to contact a specialist. A psychologist or psychotherapist will help you understand the reasons for what is happening. At the very least, you will make sure that there is nothing wrong with you. As a maximum, you will stay alive. Agree, this is a lot.
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