Causes of Depression

Depression is nothing but mental illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. Thus causes of depression are different depends on people and type of depression that person is suffered from. There are too many causes of depression.

Depression can happen at any stage of life form childhood to elderly. Some common causes of depression,

• Dangerous or unsafe environment in family.
• Being neglected from closed one in early life.
• Traumatic experiences late in life.
• One important cause is that loss of job.
• Death of loved one.
• Because of financial problem extreme stress.
• Poor self-confidence
• Side effects of some other medicine that lead to depression.
• Frequently feeling physical illness.
• Feeling homesickness.
• Hormonal changes always affect on mood that lead to depression.
• Frequently taking drug or alcohol.

Causes of Women Depression

As compared to men more women are suffer from depression. Hormonal factors are main cause of depression in women. This hormonal factor includes postpartum period, pregnancy, miscarriage, pre-menopause, menopause, menstrual cycle changes. Some faces responsibility problem both in office and also in home. And that result into depression. Most of women take tension about her children, sometime about her husband.

Many women have postpartum depression after birth of baby. Hormonal and physical changes are main cause of postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is common in women. Some women is suffered by "baby blues". Baby blues happens just after the birth of baby and postpartum can happen within one year after birth of baby.

Emotional support from her family member, husband and her friends are important when she in depression. Depression requires treatment. So contact with your doctor or your medical health care provider as early as possible when you got symptoms of depression.

Causes of Men Depression

Although men are less likely to suffer from depression, but the rate of suicide in men is four times that of women. There are different reasons of depression for women and men. Main cause of men depression is alcohol or drug. Some people work excessively for long hours. In depression women feel like hopeless or helpless whereas men becomes anger, irritable and discouraged.

In depression men need encouragement and support from family and friends. Employee assistance help is also important at work place. Take depression seriously because it required treatment.

Depression in Elderly

It is not right that most of elderly people are in depression. Even we can say most older people feel satisfied. Main cause of depression in elderly is needless suffering from the family. Feeling of elder people becomes hopelessness, sadness, and loss of interest.

Causes of Depression in Children

Recently from two decades depression in children has been taken seriously. Depressed child feel like sick. He or she refuses to go to school. He or she is negative and feel misunderstood. When teacher said that child doesn't behavior well then parent has to get child is in depression.

Three Most Important Factors of Depression

• Biological Causes

  An imbalance of neurotransmitters is one biological cause of depression. Neurotransmitters are brain cells that are required for communication with one other. Transmitters used for communication are serotonin and norepinephrine. Deficiency in serotonin may cause the sleep problems, irritability, and anxiety. Deficiency in norepinephrine may cause fatigue and depressed mood of the illness.

• Genetic Causes

  Science Technology proves that genetic play role in depression. Family link is also considered in depression. Suppose there is identical twin. If one twin is suffer from depression then definitely other one is suffered from depression.

• Environmental Causes

Causes of Major Depression

Rate of depression of women are twice as men. In children rate of depression in boy and girl are same.

• Hopelessness
• Feeling worthlessness
• Depressed mood
• More stress
• Divorced person have more chances of depression.
• Whose relative is suffer from depression they may also suffer from depression because of heredity.

Causes of Bipolar Depression

Equal number of men and women are suffered from bipolar depression. But in major depression more women are suffer than men.

There are two main causes of bipolar depression that is previous episode and heredity. Previous episode means that suppose you have depression previously then there is more chance of that you will get it again. And in heredity people whose relative suffers from depression they may get depression just because of heredity.

Resources for Fighting Depression:

• Self Help for Depression
• End Depression Now
• Conquer Stress, Depression & Anxiety