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| How to identify depression and what to do when you spot it. |
Hundreds of researches have been done studying about the prevalence of mental illnesses, and how much people in general know about mental illnesses.
The results are not good, by the way.
Researches suggest that today 1 in 4 people suffer from some kind of mental illness. That makes a total percentage of 25% people living with a mental illness.
Studies have also found that people don't know what to do even when they spot depression.
That's just plain sad. Especially because depression, mixed with anxiety is the most common mental illness in the world. You probably know someone who is right now suffering from depression.
The diseases is so stigmatized that people don't really openly talk about it.
It is important that we discuss about it, and acknowledge that mental health is important as well.
It is going to be just a brief post about the symptoms of depression. This is just to enlighten you so that you can spot depression in others, or yourself, and realize when to get help.
Depression is a mental disorder which is characterized by low mood, low energy and lack of interests in activities that were once enjoyed by the person.
It affects how you feel, think and behave. The feeling of well-being is lost.
It is a common but a serious mental disorder, and is contributing to greater portion of suicide rates.
Although a low mood is normal in certain events of life, like loss of loved ones etc, it becomes a problem when it persists and causes disability.
