Clinical Depression can affect many.

 

Clinical depression can affect people of all genders and ages, most commonly adulthood and causing them to lose energy, motivation and pleasure of life.

Depression cam go untreated because friends and family do not recognize its signs.

Clinical depression is a mental health disorder which gives prolonged feelings of Worthlessness, despair, fatigue and irritability.

Both women and men can experience a mental disorder but clinical depression is more common in women.

However, treatment of depression exists but many patients are continuing to suffering in silence.

Clinical depression

To diagnose depression, doctors and physcologist may ask some question about your thoughts and mood during a medical checkup.

They may request you to fill out the form or a brief questionnaire to check depression symptoms.

When a doctor suspects that patient have depression, they generally conduct medical and psychological tests.

These tests can help to control the problem, pinpoint a diagnosis, and solve the related complications.

These tests and exams may include:

Physical test:  this exam may include measuring and checking height, weight, heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature.

The aim of physical test is usually to find out the physical cause of depression.

In this way, a doctor may check the nervous and hormonal system. The doctor will try to get the greatest health issues which contribute to the signs of major depression. Hormonal disorder and many central nervous system injuries or illness can cause of depression.

Clinical depression may be associated with the health conditions such as, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and central nervous system tumors.

Laboratical test: after recognizing depression through specific question and physical exams, you are advised to conduct some lab tests to rule out further diagnosis.

Your health care will do blood tests to check anemia, hormone, thyroid, and calcium levels that may cause depression.

Psychological tests: to confirm the stage of depression, your doctor may ask questions about your feelings, thoughts, and behavior pattern.

You can also discuss all the thoughts you may have for self-harm or suicide. Your doctor will check the similar episode in the past.

Your doctor may conduct other standard tests as the part of physical exams such as, blood test to check liver and kidney function, and electrolytes.

Kidneys and liver are responsible to digest the depression medication in the body.

Another test can be included, MRI or CT scans of the brain in case of serious illness, ECG for heart problems,  and EEG to check electrical activities of the brain.

 

 

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