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Why Do We Still Need to Talk About Depression?

This is more of an essay format of a post than a scientific research to show some specific form or something. I've narrowed the most important reasons down to top 3, as well as expressing my personal reason as to why this has been an impactful project for me: (https://medium.com/@afifahnadaaqilah/ is-mood-swing-always-ends-with-a-mental-disorder-f584828146c) First... Most of us have been developing it over the years and are experiencing a form of bipolar depression where the mood swings take place with large intervals, meaning that for a month or two one may feel great and extremely motivated followed by a month long period of the downside. It doesn't mean, that each one of us then should immediately start a med plan, it means that we should be more aware and return to the basic facts of what could improve or smoothen the jumps between moods.  Ellen Lindner "Verywell" (https://www.verywellmind.com/the-chemistry-of-depression-1065137) Second...  A lot of people don...

Activity and Depression

One of depression's symptoms is exhaustion, which partially may derive from the fact that the patient has already invested so much of their energy to fighting off anger or frustration. While medicine can be quite an effective way to boost that and help to stay awake, without any therapy it can develop into insomnia, at which state the patient will be better off without the medication.  One way to deal with that would be to engage in activities like physical exercise. Even merely walking about 3 km a day can boost that and provide a much better sense of self.  On a similar note, a few hikes a week in nature has proven to be much more effective as nature is calming and visually less stressing aka less to be constantly observing. To quiet the stress in a more noisy environment, it\s also good to take a pet or a friend along. This will cause the patient\s focus to shift on the things that they'll be constantly reminded of.  Understandably not everyone has options as such, but...