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| Major Depression Basics |  In a major depression, more of the symptoms of depression are present, and they are typically stronger. A major depression can be caused by a solitary shocking event in a person’s life, or may expand gradually as a result of numerous personal disappointments and life problems. A number of people appear to develop the symptoms of a major depression with no any understandable life crisis causing it. Other individuals have had less severe symptoms of depression for a long time and a life crisis results in increased symptom concentration.
Major depression can take place once, as a result of a considerable psychological shock, react to treatment, and never happen yet again during the life. A number of people are likely to have chronic depression, with episodes of depression followed by periods of some years without depression, followed by another episode, typically in return to another trauma. This would be a regular depression. Generally, the treatment is alike, apart from that treatment typically is over a longer time period for regular depression.
Professional debate continues on the subject of whether some people develop endogenous depression with no any recognized psychological causes. An endogenous depression is a biologically caused depression, due most probably to either genetic causes or a break down in the brain chemistry. But, all depression engages a number of modifications in brain chemistry, even when the cause is obviously a psychological trauma. After psychological treatment and recovery from depression, the brain chemistry returns to normal, even without medication.
Sometimes the term endogenous depression is used to describe people who do not react well to treatment, and sometimes it is a mo tivation to prescribe medication alone, and not to recommend any psychological treatment for the depression. In general, the majority of people who require antidepressant medication for their depression react to treatment better when psychotherapy is given together with medication. Medication treats the symptoms of depression, and is frequently a fundamental part of the treatment program, but it is important to treat the psychological problems that caused the depression.
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