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Living with Depression: Coping Mechanisms

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Living with Depression: Coping Mechanisms

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Cognitive coping strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety: a comparison between adolescents and adults - ScienceDirect

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The present study focused on comparability of adolescents and adults in the reporting of cognitive coping strategies and their relationship to symptoms of depression and anxiety. Two samples were included: 487 adolescents attending a secondary school and 630 adults from a general practitioners practice.

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This Is What Depression Feels Like - Depression Awareness Film [2017]

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ThisIsWhatDepressionFeelsLike Based on John Anson's article on The Mighty: https://themighty.com/2016/06/bath-metaphor-what-depression-feels-like/ If you've been affected by depression or are worried about someone you know, here are some confidential helplines you can contact (UK): SAMARITANS: 116 123 (Available 24 hours) - www.samaritans.org CALM: 0800 58 58 58 (Available 5pm to midnight) - thecalmzone.net A visual metaphor that aims to highlight what it's like to live with a mental illness.

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Depression Awareness Commercial for Anatomy

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articles of numbers able to help cope with depression

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articles of numbers able to help cope with depression

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Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

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The last thing that most people expect is that they will run out of reasons to live. But if you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, you need to know that you're not alone. By some estimates, as many as one in six people will become seriously suicidal at some point in their lives.

Some Important Facts We Would Like to Share with You

Suicidal thinking is usually associated with problems that can be treated.

Clinical depression, anxiety disorders, chemical dependency, and other disorders produce profound emotional distress. They also interfere with effective problem-solving. But you need to know that studies show that the vast majority of people who receive appropriate treatment improve or recover completely. Even if you have received treatment before, you should know that different treatments work better for different people in different situations. Several tries are sometimes necessary before the right combination is found.

If you are unable to think of solutions other than suicide, it is not that solutions don't exist, only that you are currently unable to see them.

Therapists and counselors (and sometimes friends) can help you to see solutions that otherwise are not apparent to you.

Suicidal crises are almost always temporary.

Although it might seem as if your unhappiness will never end, it is important to realize that crises are usually time-limited. Solutions are found, feelings change, unexpected positive events occur. Suicide is sometimes referred to as "a permanent solution to a temporary problem." Don't let suicide rob you of better times that will come your way when you allow more time to pass.

Problems are seldom as great as they appear at first glance.

Job loss, financial problems, loss of important people in our lives - all such stressful events can seem catastrophic at the time they are happening. Then, months or years later, they usually look smaller and more manageable. Sometimes, imagining ourselves "five years down the road" can help us to see that a problem that currently seems catastrophic will pass and that we will survive.

Reasons for living can help sustain a person in pain.

A famous psychologist once conducted a study of Nazi concentration camp survivors, and found that those who survived almost always reported strong beliefs about what was important in life. You, too, might be able to strengthen your connection with life if you consider what has sustained you through hard times in the past. Family ties, religion, love of art or nature, and dreams for the future are just a few of the many aspects of life that provide meaning and gratification, but which we can lose sight of due to emotional distress.

Do not keep suicidal thoughts to yourself!

Help is available for you, whether through a friend, therapist, or member of the clergy. Find someone you trust and let them know how bad things are. This can be your first step on the road to healing. Contact a crisis centre.

Source: American Association for Suicidology, www.suicidology.org

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Need Help - Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

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The last thing that most people expect is that they will run out of reasons to live. But if you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, you need to know that you're not alone. By some estimates, as many as one in six people will become seriously suicidal at some point in their lives.

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Medication: Things such as anti-depressants can be prescribed in a persons treatment plan. however, these medications are not sedatives, or used as tranquilizers. Anti-depressants actually have no stimulating affect on a person suffering from depression.
Psychotherapy: Sometimes used alone for a person with mild depression, but can often be used in cases where medication is involved. Psychotherapy generally only contains one person, but can be used for couples or families.
ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy): Medical treatment commonly used for those who suffer from major depression, but is also used for patients suffering from bipolar disorder also, boy only when they have not responded to any other form of treatment,. ECT includes brief simulations of the brain while the patient is under a form of anesthetic. generally, a patient endures the simulation at least two to three times a week, and at least six to twelve treatments.

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within the many affected by depression, between 80 and 90 percent of people respond in a positive manner towards treatment.

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these several factors can play a role in a person's depression:
Biochemistry: differences in certain chemicals in the brain that can present with depression.
Genetics: Depression has the power to go from person to person. for example, if there is a set of identical twins and one has suffered with depression or is currently suffering with it, the other one is at a 70% chance of also being diagnosed with depression also.
Personality: A person with lower self-esteem, or those who are easily effected by stress, or those who are generally more pessimistic are more likely to present with depression.
Environmental Factors: Those who have had continuous exposure to violence, neglect, abuse and poverty have the ability to make a person more prone to depression.

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those commonly affected by mental illnesses such as depression mostly begin in someone's mid to late 20's.

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other diseases that can mimic depression in teens 

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other diseases that can mimic depression in teens 

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there are diseases that can mimic one having depression. symptoms of depression must be persistent for at least two weeks to provide the medical diagnosis of depression, other medical conditions such as thyroid problems, brain tumors and vitamin deficiencies can present symptoms that are like depression.

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-feeling of sadness or depressed mood
-loss in interest in activities that a person once enjoyed
-changes in appetite
-trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
-loss of energy or increased fatigue
-increase in purposeless physical activity
-increased difficulty in thinking, making decisions and concentrating on one task
-suicidal thoughts or actions

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depression, or major depressive disorder, is a mental illness that can negatively affect how a person feels, it can also affect how a person acts and thinks.