Types of Depression and Anxiety Disorders
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It is estimated that approximately 6 percent of Americans suffer from seasonal depression (SAD), a type of depression, and another 14 percent experienced a mild form of disease called winter blues. SAD strikes during the winter months and is associated with reduced exposure to sunlight. People with SAD suffer from irritability, lethargy, carbohydrate craving and weight gain, increased sleep and general sadness. Scientists believe that SAD is caused by a defect in the hypothalamus, the gland responsible for regulating responses to external stimuli. Stress may also playa role in SAD. Certain factors seem to put people at risk for SAD. Women are four times more likely to suffer from SAD are women. SAD, although it occurs in people of all ages, even those between 20 and 40 seem to be more vulnerable. Some families seem to be at risk. And the people who live in the northern states in the U.S. are most at risk are those living in the southern states. In winter, the fewer hours of sunshine in northern than in southern regions. It is estimated that 10 percent of the population in the northern states as Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin and experience ED, with less than 2 percent of those living in southern states such as Florida and New Mexico are suffering from this disorder. There are some simple but effective treatments for SAD. The main advantage seems to be light therapy, the patient is exposed to light that simulates sunlight. After being exposed to this light every day, 80 percent of patients experience relief from their symptoms within four days. Other forms of treatment for SAD is the change in diet (consumption of foods rich in complex carbohydrates), increased exercise, stress, techniques, sleep restriction (limiting the number of hours of sleep over a period of 24 hours), psychotherapy and antidepressants. OCD About 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder. An Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disease where people have obsessive thoughts or perform normal behaviors that can not control. People with recurrent obsessions have ideas or thoughts that can not control. People with the limitations they feel compelled to engage in repetitive behaviors, almost as if the problem of controlling them. Feel a compulsive need for cleaning and washing hands, a 20-fold, before eating, count up to a certain number while using the toilet, checking and verification is carried out all the switches at home before going out or going to bed is an example of compulsive behavior. OCD can be considered a type of depression.
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Many people suffer from seasonal depression , , a type of depression .
