Everything you need to know about Depression

A word that is quite common in the current fast-moving environment which is repeatedly heard from people from all echelons. Are you really depressed or just unknowingly state your mental state as depressed?

Depression is a serious medical condition where your thoughts, feelings, and acts get affected negatively, causing sadness or loss of interest in activities followed by various emotional and physical problems that can even lead to mental instabilities.

The symptoms of Depression:

• Feeling sad
• Fatigue
• Sleeping more or trouble in getting sleep
• Weight loss or weight gain
• Loss of interest in your work or favorite activities
• Feeling worthless or guilty
• Trouble in concentrating or decision making
• Thoughts of death or suicide

Depression and Suicide thoughts in Teens

Adolescent Depression is a serious threat that often remains unrecognized in our society. It might start with sadness in teens and mostly misinterpreted as an effect of hormone imbalances, teenage rebellion, or physical factors like frustration from studies or other education-related activities. Adolescent depression needs to address on time to prevent life-threatening issues. If left untreated the feelings of sadness and hopelessness may even get worse eventually leading to suicide or other related activities.

Depression affects the overall performance of students letting them down in their studies, extra cultural activities, and make the most beautiful moment of their life a miserable one. Depression in teens affects personal life, school life, work-life, social life, and family life.

It’s time to talk about Depression in the workplace

Studies reveal that one in five expresses symptoms of depression during their lifetime. It can be associated with your family, profession, or social circle.

Are you happy in your job role? Target, deadlines, these are the nightmares for employees that causes stress along with excessive workload, low salaries, conflict with other employees, or inadequate support from the management. Smart working or increased productivity facilitates an employee to thrive in fast-running work routines. Mindfulness and concentration are the key elements to improve productivity and desired results. If you are depressed, you could neither concentrate nor deliver smart solutions in your assigned works. This can lead to termination or demotion that can even worsen the mental wellbeing of employees. Stress can seriously affect your health and wellbeing, making you vulnerable to several diseases.

Are you the one? If you are having any symptoms of depression, talk to a specialized therapist to feel better. Call @ 0503955613 to know more