The Depression.

First of all ... What is depression?

It is the psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mood disorder, transient or permanent, characterized by feelings of depression, unhappiness and guilt, as well as provoking a total or partial inability to enjoy the things and events of everyday life. Depressive disorders can be, to a greater or lesser extent, accompanied by anxiety. {Information extracted from Wikipedia}

If you can relate (so to speak as it is not the same) depression to a feeling would be sadness. Sadness is a feeling that manifests itself in all of us on certain occasions, but depression is considered a mental illness, although I do not see it that way, it is scientifically known. The origin of depression is multifactorial, I mean it can come out of several points. In its appearance, biological, genetic and psychosocial factors influence.

"Levels"

Depression has (a way of saying) several levels. Among them are:

• Major depressive disorder.
• Dysthymic disorder.
• Adaptive disorder with depressed or mixed mood (anxiety and depressed mood).
• Depressive disorder associated with pathological grief.
• Other types...
  I will not touch this point as thoroughly as it is quite extensive and would be heavy for casual readers but perhaps in the future I will elaborate a section to discuss these topics between the lines. Something that all types of depression have in common are suicidal thoughts, indifference and negative moods, with negatives I refer to constant, irritable and / or dysphoric sadness.

From a more personal point of view ...

It is a serious and common disease that affects us physically and mentally in our way of feeling and thinking. Depression can make us want to get away from our family, friends, work, and school. It can also cause anxiety, loss of sleep, appetite, and lack of interest or pleasure in doing different activities.

Do you know people who have it? Do you know how to treat them?

I do not talk about special treatment as if they were unprotected beings in a cruel world, no. I'm talking about the normal treatment they should receive so they do not feel alone, so they do not feel inferior to everything around them. You can not tell a person suffering from depression to stop being sad as well as nothing, because first you will not be helping him in anything and second, it is not something that can be controlled with that "will of his own". With the right help, the person you know may stop feeling cornered and locked in that cage that keeps her excluded from any feeling that makes her feel good. Be that hero.

IF YOU...

... That you read me you suffer depression I want you to know that you are not alone in that fight, you have people who love you, family, friends. People who would show their faces for you Do not you have a family? Do not worry, you have and will have friends, you will meet people at a point in your life that will fill you up, complement you. Just give time to time, believe me when I tell you that time will put us all in our place with the right people and we deserve. For now we have to keep fighting that we're here for that, nobody said it would be easy, but it's not impossible. Trust yourself. Can not you alone? Look for help, it's not wrong to ask for it. Surround yourself with good people, make you feel good and give them a smile that mutual happiness is the best thing that can be in a circle. Go out and show them what you can do with this and more.

AND YOU...

... That you are reading me and you know someone who suffers from depression, seeks the right information, the exact and concise treatment to help him. Stop reading this and go help him. Someone needs you. I repeat for the last time, be that hero.