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How can you determine if an illness is causing depression or depression is causing an illness?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Depression can affect your emotions, mind and body.

Symptoms:

• Feeling very sad, hopeless or worried.

• Not enjoying things that used to give you joy.

• Being easily irritated or frustrated.

• Eating too much or too little.

• Changes in how much you sleep.

• Having a difficult time concentrating or remembering things.

• Experiencing physical problems like headache, stomachache or sexual dysfunction.

• Thinking about hurting or killing yourself.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

Depression can occur in association with virtually all the other psychiatric and physical diagnoses. Physical illness increases the risk of developing severe depressive illness. There are two broadly different mechanisms. The most obvious has a psychological or cognitive mechanism. Thus, the illness may provide the life event or chronic difficulty that triggers a depressive episode in a vulnerable Individual. Secondly more specific associations appear to exist between depression and particular physical disorders. These may turn out to be of particular etiological interest. The best examples are probably stroke and cardiovascular disease. Finally major depression, but especially minor depression, dysthymia, and depressive symptoms merge with other manifestations of human distress with which patients present to their doctors, Such somatic presentations test the conventional distinction between physical and mental disorder, and are a perennial source of controversy.

Keywords: depression, physical illness, somatic symptoms

Depression is sometimes described as the “common cold” of psychiatry It is certainly common, and it is also present most commonly in mild forms, which extends the analogy somewhat. However, in its most severe forms it is the major problem that may preoccupy any ill patient- to the point where he or she may commit suicide. Indeed, a formal major depressive episode can occur in association with virtually all the other psychiatric and physical diagnoses. This review will address primarily physical illnesses.

Physical illness increases the risk of developing severe depressive illness. There are two broadly different mechanisms that may explain this, which are not mutually exclusive. The first is the most obvious, probably the most common, and is usually described as having a psychological or cognitive mechanism. It may be understandable as the threat that any severe and/or chronic illness may pose to an individual's sense of purpose and meaning in life. Thus, the illness may provide the life event or chronic difficulty that triggers a depressive episode in a vulnerable individual. Physical illness may thereby be a component of the complex pathway that determines the emergence of depression. The mechanisms may be both genetic and nongenetic, and have been best teased out by twin studies, primarily in women.1-3 Such an association between depression and physical illness may be highly nonspecific and unbiological. However, this cannot be assumed axiomatically to be true. Indeed, all severe depression is in some sense biological, and some unexpected associations may be mediated by a biology that is related to both the physical illness and to the systems that support depressive reactions. Examples of the more specific association will be given below; they may turn out to be of particular etiological interest.

In addition, major depression, but especially minor depression, dysthymia, and depressive symptoms merge with other manifestations of human distress, with which patients present to their doctors. Such somatic presentations test the conventional distinction between physical and mental disorder, and are a perennial source of controversy While it will not be possible to do the topic full justice, the key issues will be noticed.

Depressive illness and stroke

After severe stroke, it has been suggested that depression is more common and, more critically, that the particular site of the brain insult may influence the risk of subsequent mood disorder. Thus, a nonspecific ris