Depression: Different Types and Symptoms

Posted by Nicole Brown

at July 22, 2009

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Clinical depression is named as depression, “the blues,” biological depression, major depression. But all means are same as feeling sad and depressed for weeks or months at a time and feelings of hopelessness, lack of energy. Psychiatrists guess that one in four women and one in ten men develop depression during their lifetime; depressions involve at least one in 50 children under 12 and one in 20 teenagers.

Generally, the symptoms of depression contain:

• Feeling sad, discouraging and despairing

• A loss of attention and pleasure in normal actions

• Loss of hunger or weight

• Loss of sex drive

• Sleeping problems such as an inability to get to sleep or early waking

Types of Depression

Psychotic Depression:

Sufferers of psychotic depression begin imagine things, sounds, voices and visuals that do not exist. Those are referred the hallucinations which are not “positive” like they are with a manic depressive.

Melancholic Depression

It is primarily caused by biological factors and affecting only around 1-2% of the population and same number of males and females. It can occur on its own part of Bipolar Disorder.

Major Depression

A person with major depression feels a thoughtful and constant sense of depression and despair. Major depression is combination of symptoms that obstruct with the ability to work, study, sleep, eat and enjoy once pleasurable activities.

Cyclothymic disorder

Cyclothymic disorder is when a person has alternating mood swings of excitement and depression. Often, a person with cyclothymic disorder has a relative with bipolar disorder.

Psychotic depression –

Psychosis involves seeing things that are not there present, feeling everyone is against you and having delusions.

Non-melancholic

It has to do with psychological causes, and is very often connected stressful events in a person’s life or in conjunction with the individual’s personality style.

Non-melancholic depression is the three types of depression.

• A unhappy mood for more than two weeks

• Social destruction

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