Depression Is Contagious
Posted in Depression by depressiondoctor on April 16th, 2006
As infections have the potential to spread, depression has the same potential too where it can be transferred from one human to another. The main reason to share this thought was to give you an understanding that if you are going through depression, just raise your head and see as to how many people who are part of you are going through the same feelings.
Did you know that before that depression was contagious, that it transfers from one human to another. If you didn’t know it before, then it is in your knowledge now and I am glad that you are going through this article to learn this fact..
When you went into a depressed state, your family and the friends were the first ones who came to know about, even if you try to hide your feelings, you cannot hide it, because one way or the other you are going to expose yourself as to how you are feeling. You would be different in certain ways that would allow your family and friends to determine that something is wrong with you.
In a depressed state, the individual tends to have as much time alone as they can and this is the fact that depression starts to gain its ground. When you start finding your time in isolation, you are neglecting the time that your spouse and your children need. They will try to comfort you, but this state tends to pull the person into their own and you will not find a way to come out.
Then when you will not be open to your family, this will put them through a series of questions as to went wrong and what are the things that they have done wrong that have put you in such a situation that you are wanting to be alone. This will put them through the depressed feelings as well. This is going to affect all your family and know that you will not be alone.
In order to save yourself and your family from this situation, you need to share your feelings, you need to tell them as to why you are feeling that way and how can you come out of those feelings. When you will share, you will see as to how much support you are going to get from your loved ones that it will not be difficult for you to get yourself back. Just be open and do not close yourself out. I think that is the best remedy. The ones around you love you and want you to feel the best.
joyce says:
I have been depressed for the most part of my life. I do see a psychatrist & community mental health worker but somehow my way of thinking does not seem to change. I am on celexa, 2wice daily. I seem to have become more mentally challenged, more judgemental, more withdrawn, more moody, more irrate, very critical and very impatient towards practically everyone. Even perfect strangers. I have been a single mother of 4 all my life. My oldest is a girl (34) single mom of 2. The 2nd, a boy (31) married 2yrs. with a new born. My son is very intelligent but you would not know it because he is an alcoholic and makes an ass of himself after a few 2 many. My 3rd child is another boy (22) diagnozed with schyzophrania, and he is a drug user who is in & out of mental institutions. My last one is another boy, 14 yrs. old which I had when I was nearly 40. Highly intelligent, articulate and musically inclined but he is left to deal with me. My negativity, sarcasam and constant bitching. I feel he is to the point where he himself cannot stand having me around. He spends most of his time either on the phone, locked up in his room or on the computer. I don’t blame him, but it seems to me that he is slowly losing interest in his school work and that not much of anything else matters, except his tons of friends. Not even my yelling seems to have an effect on him these days. He either snaps back or completely ignores it. I’m afraid some of his friends may mislead him and I feel powerless because of my low mental and self-esteem state. Please show me what I can do to change, so others around me will change, not only their thinking of me, but their attitude and way of life so I/we can learn to live at peace with each other and others around us so that I/we can appreciate life to the fullest.
Thank you for listening
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:42 am