Human Depression

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What Causes Depression?

There is not just one cause of depression. It is a complex disease that can occur as a result of a multitude of factors. For some, depression occurs due to a loss of a loved one, a change in one’s life, or after being diagnosed with a serious medical disease. For others, depression just happened, possibly due to their family history.

Factors involved in causing depression, include:

A history of depression in the family: It is believed that depression is passed genetically from generation to generation, although the exact way this occurs is not known.
Grief from the death or loss of a loved one.
Personal disputes, like conflict with a family member.
Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse.
Major events that occur in everyone’s lives, such as moving, graduating, changing jobs, getting married or divorced, retiring, etc.
Serious illness: depressed feelings are a common reaction to many medical illnesses.
Certain medications
Substance abuse: close to 30% of people with substance abuse problems also have major depression.
Other personal problems: these may come in the forms of social isolation due to other mental illnesses, or being cast out of a family or social circle.

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Welcome to ilp, tat.

Wecome, Tat! I second the emotion.

i get depressed when death comes into my mind…
my psychoanalyst says this is normal…
i dont believe him…

I think that depression is a lot more straightforward than people are making it out to be. It’s quite the complicated emotion, but a very simple concept.

Depression can be simply characterized by a “depression” in happiness. Specifically depression is either; chronic or acute and chemical or situational.

It is important from a psychoanalytical standpoint to be able to classify as broad of a term as this as simply as possible.

And before people ask, yes, I have been there and back. Life is a much more rewarding experience now.

I see a lot of people discussing nutrition and exercise as well. Both of these play a critical role in the genuine rehabilitation of depression in my opinion. My take on both of this are as straightforward as it was for depression!

Diet: Keep it simple.
Take in plenty of complex carbohydrates, lean protein, and healthy fats throughout the course of five to six equally portioned meals a day.
My take on fats: If I can see it floating at the surface of water at room temperature, I assume that it will do the same in my blood.
My take on carbohydrates: If it isn’t brown and doesn’t remind me of a fist full of nuts and grain, I avoid it. I generalize everything else as rapid metabolizing (or simple) carbohydrates, which spike insulin levels.
My take on proteins: If it’s not lean, I assume that it will not make me lean.

I am also very keen on bioavailability. If you don’t know what this is, you should do your research. It deals with the different metabolic properties of different foods. This is a very important aspect of nutrition that is often overlooked.

Exercise: Keep it simple:
Strictly strength training and MMA for flexibility and diversity.
Strength training: Complex exercises only, no isolation (i.e. barbell curls). If it doesn’t weight at least 135 lbs and recruit many different muscle groups, I won’t lift it. I utilize a strength training program that operates under the principal of liner progression and comprises of five different exercises only, three of the exercises per session, for a total of three workouts a week. It’s a simple and quick routine that anyone can do with minimal resources.
Cardio: I don’t do it. Strength training has been proven to be far more efficient in maintaining optimal health than anything else. The amount of effort required to squat 285 lbs for 5 sets of 5 three days a week causes your body to go into an incredibly anabolic state. This effort also increases your Basil Metabolic Rate over a course of 24-36 hours. What does this all mean? Increased calories burnt even in the absence of exercise. More, in fact that what can be done with the same amount of time spent on a treadmill. Also, we know that muscle burns far more calories than fat. Increase your lean muscle mass and your metabolism will increase in a directly proportional fashion.

This all fairly well encompasses my take on fitness from a nutritional and physical standpoint.

Welcome to ILP.
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I’ve been told that vinegar helps alleviate arthritic pain. After a week or so of eating Kosher pickles and drinking the vinegar, my arthritic pains and consequent bad dreams have become less severe (almost nonexistent). Apparantly, the bioavailabilty inherent in vinegar is enough to prove remedial for me. Biodiversity, however, determines what helps whom.

Interesting, have they sciencified this? Not that I doubt your testimony but anecdotal is anecdotal. There’s always that placebo question, the power of which is undoubtedly significant.

From the skimpy research I’ve done the vinegar remedy for arthritic pain is still in the "alternative " medical arena. There are several anecdotal references and a few books aout this. If it’s a placebo, I don’t care. For me it works.

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I’m including this site here because it deals with depression. I’ve admired Candice Pert, neuroscientist, since the 1980s. It appears that she has gotten into what some might call “New Wave.” The crux of the conversation is that depression is a habit.

Quite. Just asking.

Will anybody take the time to read the short transcript? It covers a lot of what has been said here.

Hoo Ha! don’t you mean, has anyone scientifically sanctified a vinegar cure for arthritic pains?

Come on, Calrid, if something works for someone, is it really important to know why? You know that ‘phantom’ pain can be present in a severed limb. Leave it alone.

I didn’t read the whole transcript nor know what has been said here, but the idea that depression is a habit, something that we’re emotionally addicted to, is quite interesting.

Yes because it might work for others. It’s important to trial it to see its efficacy otherwise we might as well just give everyone placebos and hope they get better through the power of suggestion. And of course since vinegar is readily available, it wont get trialled by anything but a charity because there’s no money in it, but that’s by the by. :slight_smile:

If it works for you anecdotally then it just works is no way to help the millions of sufferers out there who could benefit if it was effectively studied.

I know it sounds odd, but not all Science is evil, just my science to create a bomb that will destroy the whole solar system, but then one has to make ends meet by holding the world to ransom for 1 million billion dollars or what have you.

For the past 20 years Candice Pert, co-discoverer of endorphins (endogenous morphine) has mapped these and their receptors in the brain. This is another hint at solving the addiction/habit problem, at least on the level of neuroscientific investigations. Some 20 years before that Donald Hebb noted that frequently used neuronal communication pathways become almost automatic. Putting the two together, one can see how memory and emotion join together in a habitual manner that bypasses most of the prefrontal, left brain anaylses–i.e., where logical choices are made. Depression, in this vein, becomes a memory/emotion habit.

If only it were that simple, then good therapy would always be effective on its own.

I can’t say it isn’t. In any event Skepitco rakes Pert over to coals for wandering into territories of ideas that are not “scientifically verifiable”. One again, left brain, prefrontal lobe logic makes the claim that it is sole arbiter of truth about body/mind.

There’s no part of the brain that isn’t involved in logic, except perhaps Shatner’s Bassoon.

Why?

Pert goes so far as to relegate consciousness to every body cell!