Can You See Depression in People?
But for most people, when they say they’re depressed, they’re referring to the depressed mood. This depression rarely lasts long. It comes and goes and is usually brought on by a number of different things. Depression affects people in different ways. Some people prefer to be alone.
They cut themselves off from friends and family in an attempt to work their way through the mood in their own time. Others throw themselves into social activities, preferring to ignore it until it goes away. Still others tend to dwell on it and try to draw the people around them in a similar state of depression, embracing the philosophy that "misery loves company."
There are also the people that seem to live in a state of constant depression. For some the diagnosis is functional depression and treatment would be advised, but for others, it’s more of a continual mood. Some people just seem to enjoy being unhappy.
Their negative outlook of themselves, those around them and life in general, keep them in this continual depression. On occasion it is an attempt to get sympathy, but for some people, it’s just the way they are.
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are two separate conditions. The exact relationship between the two is still under study. Even though it’s very common to find them together, any direct relationship to each other has yet to be found. For the time being, the relationship between anxiety and depression is often referred to as comorbidity.
Meaning unrelated, but co-existing, their symptoms can overlap each other, which can make the initial diagnosis of either condition difficult. The symptoms can also be completely independent of each other. A study by the National Comorbidity Survey reported that 58% of patients suffering major depression also exhibited lifetime anxiety.
Agitated depression, and apathetic depression are most often referred to when supporting these results. Both of these depressed states exhibit anxiety with heightened restlessness, suicidal thoughts or tendencies and a general sense of dread.
While agitated depression includes symptoms of nonclinical and nonspecific panic, apathetic depression doesn’t. Even mild anxiety symptoms are being found to have an impact on the course depression takes on individuals. A study at the University of Pittsburgh showed patients diagnosed with depression and also suffering lifetime panic symptoms experienced significant delays in the success of their treatments.
These patients also exhibited additional problems when facing the resumption of their normal activities. There are theories regarding the possibility that depression acts similar to anxiety in attempting to encourage avoidance of potentially harmful situations. Anxiety tries to avoid and prepare for physical danger, while depression tries to avoid emotional or psychological danger.
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