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DEPRESSION

Psychotherapy and psychiatry

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DEPRESSION: DEFINITION

  • Depression is the state of continuous sadness.  a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.

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PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOSIS PERTAINS:

  1. Hallucination: A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in . Auditory hallucinations, olfactory hallucinations,
  2. Illusion: Misinterpretation of a stimulus. Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
  3. Delusion: Fixed false or A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.

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TYPES OF DEPRESSION

Obsessive compulsive disorder

  1. Bipolar defective disorder
  2. Major depressive disorder
  3. Postpartum psychosis
  4. Psychotic depression

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CAUSES OF DEPRESSION

Neurotransmitters

personality traits: Temperament

Genetic

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How to prevent depression

  1. Proper planning
  2. Solicitate one another
  3. Leaders leaders should be educated on how to handle the victims

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