Report about Depression

First by definition

Depression: It is a disease that affects the soul and the body. Depression affects the way you think and act, and can lead to many emotional and physical problems.

Usually, people with depression cannot continue to practice their daily lives as normal, as depression causes them to feel a lack of desire in life.

It should be noted that depression is one of the most common diseases in the world.

Learned helplessness: It is a typical behavior of living organisms that occurs when the organism suffers from painful and repeated excitations or stimuli that it cannot avoid or avoid. With this occurrence, this organism often fails to learn the response to escape or avoidance in new situations where the possibility of escape or avoidance is more likely. In other words, the object learns that it has no power during situations that involve painful and repulsive stimuli and stimuli, and then the object accepts its loss of control. 

Second, the symptoms

Symptoms of depression: different and varied because depression appears in different forms for different people.

For example, symptoms of depression may appear in a 25-year-old person with depression that is different from that in a 70-year-old person:

Loss of desire to practice regular daily activities

Feeling nervous and depressed

Feeling of hopelessness

Bouts of crying for no apparent reason

Sleep disturbances

Difficulty focusing

Difficulties in making decisions

Accidentally gain or lose weight

Nervous

Worried and restless.

Symptoms of Learned helplessness: It can start of Learned helplessness: early in life, for example in children who grow up in strict institutional environments, often showing symptoms of disability even during childhood, as well as when children need help but no one helps them, and can lead to repeated experiences, which enhance Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness; For a child's growth with a sense of no sense doing something, and that nobody will help it, too. Some common symptoms of Learned helplessness in children include:

Low self-esteem

- Negative

Weak motivation and self-motivation

- to give in

Not making an effort on anything the child wants

Frustration

- Procrastination

Not to seek help

A child's Learned helplessness can also lead to anxiety, depression, or both.

Third: treatment:

Depression treatment:

·         Drug treatment

·         Psychotherapy

·         Electroconvulsive treatment (Electroshock treatment - ECT)

There are also methods for treating depression that did not meet research and experimentation, such as the accepted methods mentioned above, among them:

 

·         Cerebral stimulation

·         Complementary and alternative therapies.

There are certain situations in which a family doctor can treat depression on its own.

But in other cases, a qualified psychotherapist for depression is needed, a psychologist, a psychologist or a social worker.

Treatment of Learned helplessness : CBT is a form of psychotherapy, which can be useful in overcoming patterns of thinking and behaviors that contribute to the development of acquired disability, and the goal of CBT is to help people with disabilities; To identify negative patterns of thinking that contribute to the feeling of acquired disability, then replace these ideas with more optimistic and rational ones, so that this process includes a careful analysis of what the person who suffers from acquired disability thinks, challenging and discussing the negative thinking patterns he adopts.

 

 

Conclusion

People who view events as uncontrollable can show a variety of symptoms that threaten their mental and physical health. They may experience stress, often showing disturbances in emotions, showing some degree of negativity or aggression, and they may also have difficulty performing cognitive tasks such as solving problems. They are less likely to alter unhealthy patterns of behavior, which may cause them to neglect, for example, diet, exercise and medical treatment.

Parasympathetic and cognitive psychologists found a strong correlation between depression-like symptoms and learned disability in laboratory animals.

Young people and middle-aged parents with a pessimistic explanatory style often suffer from depression. These people tend to have a lack of problem solving and cognitive restructuring, and also tend to demonstrate poor job satisfaction and personal relationships in the workplace.

Resources

·         Study of acquired disability learning, published on allpsych.com,

·         Martin Seligman, Steven F. Maier 1975, "Theoretical acquired disability and evidence"

·         Martin Seligman optimism learning test

·         The Identity and Control Book for the American Sociologist Harrison White