There are several types of depression that varies in symptoms and diagnosis, yet they all have a profound affect on the patients' life. It needs a mental health care professional in order to distinguish between them, since some of them share the same symptoms and signs.
Common Depression Types:
Clinical depression
This disorder also known as severe depression or major depression, is, as the name suggests, the most serious of all depression types. It affects all life aspects. A person that suffers severe depression looses his ability to live a normal life. Working, studying, sleeping and also appetite are all impaired.activities they used to enjoy. They loose their self-worth and they feel guilty and hopeless. Severe depression patients can also suffer from suicide thoughts and plans and they are more exposed to often recurrences than the other depression type's patients.
Dysthymia
This type of depression considered to be a less severe, yet chronic version of severe depression. People with dysthymia live their lives with a constant sense of sadness and melancholy, low energy and lack of enjoyment.
Bipolar Disorder
Also known as manic-depressive disorder, this depression is one of the easiest to diagnose of all other depression types, since it has a set of unique set of symptoms. The main symptom is having dramatic changes in mood. A bipolar disorder patient can suffer a low level of energy and sadness and in fact can show any of the major depression disorder symptoms, including desire to hurt themselves (the depressive polar), and than, after a short time period that can be days, weeks or months, show an excitable behavior (the manic polar) that can manifest in excessive money spending on shopping and gambling.
Cyclothymia
This disorder is another type of bipolar disorder, yet it considered to be less severe and more chronic. In this disorder the person suffers milder manifestations of both mania and depression. The changes from one polar to the opposite one can be performed in just a short time
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
This type of depression typically manifests during a course of a season. All symptoms are eliminated once the specific season ends. This is also one of the depression types that are easy to diagnose and it is more common in winter.
Postpartum Depression
This rare type of depression can, of course, only manifest in women, after giving birth to a new baby. Those mothers suffer symptoms of severe depression that can manifest anytime after delivery, sometimes even months after. Postpartum depression symptoms are the same as other depression types symptoms, But Without proper diagnosis and treatment, this depression type can also be dangerous for both the mother and the baby, since symptoms also include lack of ability to take proper care of the baby or lack of motherly feelings towards the baby and even resentment and hate. Without help, some of postpartum depression patients can harm themselves as well as the baby.
Sharon Kaplan is the owner of Depression Disorder web site, where you can find farther information about depression, depression diagnosis and depression treatments. Sharon uses her site to increase awareness of depression by providing the common people with common knowledge about depression using a down to earth language.
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