Anxiety, depression and feeling blue

What to say about depression. What is that – depression? How does it show? What to do to prevent it? What to do when it shows? How to treat it? How to achieve mental piece? How to…?  Yes there are lot of “How to” related to depression. Let’s start with what is depression?Depression is some kind of mental disorder which is common to great number of people. Luckily it can be treated and it can be cured. Only 10 – 15 % can lead to fatal outcome. This situation is great problem to modern world. Depression takes 3 – 4 % of the entire world’s disease problem. Despite these serious facts, most people try to keep their depression secret. They try to hide it away from the family, from the closest, from the coworkers, from the world. Also doctors don’t want to be always on unknown ground. Not always they want to deal with something not sure, something that cannot be treated with some exact medicine. Modern man don’t want to expose he’s weakness and disability, especially not mental disability. No one would like to be called “crazy”. No one would like to lose their job because of something he think is not so serious and it will go away. But guess not, it will not get away, unless it’s forced to go away. Many people read about depression in popular magazines, newspapers, on the internet. Not always they can get real picture of what’s going on. Sensationalistic journal articles and sensationalistic approach to some irresponsible people can cause much more damage than anybody can imagine. If someone brave enough admit that he needs professional help and go to the doctor, it’s not for sure that he’ll find appropriate and accurate treatment. It needs devoted doctor who will lead the patient on long term and cure it. In the end, it will provide great deal of personal and professional satisfaction. Lessons will be learned from both sides. No one will remain the same. Patient will have great benefit having he’s old life back, and doctor will have improvement on he’s techniques and professional knowledge. What’s working and what doesn’t, is really questionable. Doctor has to devote to patients welfare. Open minded approach is something that depression cannot be treated or cured without.