What Is Depression?

Depression is a feeling of sadness and hopelessness.Depression is a common problem,it affect at least 2 in 100 children under 12 and 5 in everyday100 teenagers.Depression is even more common in adults.Young people are much more likely to become depressed if they have suffered from abuse or neglect or live in city areas where there are high rate of poverty,unemployment and crime.Depression is a serious and common illness but nowadays there is a great deal of what can be done to help those affected by it.The first step to getting help is to be able to recognice the problem.

what effects can it have?
Because depression affects so many aspects of life,your outlook,how you feel,what you are able to do,it can mean you cope with ordinary daily life much less than usual.Depression increases risk of
1.Drug,alcohol or solvent abuse
2.Self injury such as drug overdose and wrist cutting
3.Suicide

It can cause serious problem such as:
1.Difficulty getting on with friends and family.
2.Loss of friends
3.Loss of confidence and difficulty making decisions,inablity to study,work and perform well in exams.
4.Difficulty with day to day tasks
5.Eating problems,turning food for comfort and eating too much or dieting excesscively.
6.Lying,stealing and truanting.

What causes depression?
Depression is commonly caused by a minute of thing rather than any one thing alone.
Some people have experiences that lead to depression.These include family breakdown,abuse,neglect and bullying,serious illnesss and the death or loss of a loved one,people are more at risk of becoming depressed if they have no one to share their worries with,a lot of demand on them and not enough support .Depression often runs in families and someone with a close relative who is affected by depression has a higher risk of becoming depressed themselves.Girls and women are more likely than boys and men to become depressed.

Depression and Capability

Success is not hereditary.People do not get rich because they are men or women but by developing their capabilities.So,whatever you think or looks like you can do must be developed to bring about your success.Task your brain to produce necessary result because brain is not for decoration but for gains.People have a way of explaining the reasons they failed by blaming it on certain perceived disadvantages.Posses I can make it no matter what mentality, because poverty is not genetic and failure is not a skin disease.You are not in lack because you are black.The fact you are a woman and not a man,black not white,educated but not a graduate,from a poor background not from a rich home,in a village not a city are not the reasons you are the way you are today.

Whether you are a man,woman,old,young,Literate,illiterate etc does not make you a nobody but your refusal to developed the capabilities in you.Self development is what gets things done in life.Even the physically challenged said there is ability in disability.You are capable of doing many things.You can be rich,you can be married,you can bear children,you can be a professional,you can own an enterprise and travel all over the world and fulfil your dreams.you only need to develop your capabilities.For whatever you do not develop will diminish and eventually disappear.This is one of the reasons many suffer in life.They fail to discover what they have ang even when discovered refuse to developed them.