Explain How Depression Affects A Person's Life
How Depression Affects a Person's Life
Depression is generally described by people who suffer from it as being like a veil. Though they can see outside it some, it shadows their field of vision and gives everything a gray, bleak appearance. This impact's a person's life in a multitude of ways. First of all, though they generally feel tired all of the time, the constant sadness inside them makes getting out of bed difficult each morning. Some lose their jobs because they keep going into work late, if they go in at all. Relationships with family members and loved ones are not maintained, which results in isolation that can further worsen their symptoms. And without trying, their once healthy weight seems to drop at a steady rate because even eating seems pointless. If the person does not receive treatment quickly, the symptoms will worsen. Signs of more serious depression include:
Feeling hopeless
Thoughts of suicide
Poor hygiene
Difficulty making decisions
Why Depressed People Become Addicts …show more content…
Some say that a person feels bad inside, so they turn to drugs and alcohol to ease their pain. Others say it is the substance abuse that throws off a person's brain chemistry, which causes them to become depressed. This could be the most likely since those who are dealing with an addiction are twice as likely to have problems with depression than someone who doesn't. But, regardless of whether the addiction or depression happens first, there is a constant cycle that occurs if the depressed person does not get treatment. Alcohol and some substances that are abused by addicts act as depressants on the body, so the more that a person uses them, the worse they will feel. The only way that the cycle can be stopped is often through in-patient
Depression is generally described by people who suffer from it as being like a veil. Though they can see outside it some, it shadows their field of vision and gives everything a gray, bleak appearance. This impact's a person's life in a multitude of ways. First of all, though they generally feel tired all of the time, the constant sadness inside them makes getting out of bed difficult each morning. Some lose their jobs because they keep going into work late, if they go in at all. Relationships with family members and loved ones are not maintained, which results in isolation that can further worsen their symptoms. And without trying, their once healthy weight seems to drop at a steady rate because even eating seems pointless. If the person does not receive treatment quickly, the symptoms will worsen. Signs of more serious depression include:
Feeling hopeless
Thoughts of suicide
Poor hygiene
Difficulty making decisions
Why Depressed People Become Addicts …show more content…
Some say that a person feels bad inside, so they turn to drugs and alcohol to ease their pain. Others say it is the substance abuse that throws off a person's brain chemistry, which causes them to become depressed. This could be the most likely since those who are dealing with an addiction are twice as likely to have problems with depression than someone who doesn't. But, regardless of whether the addiction or depression happens first, there is a constant cycle that occurs if the depressed person does not get treatment. Alcohol and some substances that are abused by addicts act as depressants on the body, so the more that a person uses them, the worse they will feel. The only way that the cycle can be stopped is often through in-patient