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Current Research in Psychology and Behavioral Science
[ ISSN : 2833-0986 ]


Depression: A Fast Growing Mental Health Issue

Review Article
Volume 1 - Issue 1


Charles Ignatius*
Published : April 03, 2020

Abstract

Depression is a fast growing mental health issue in today’s world. Every psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist will agree that most of their patients come to their consult with anxiety and depression. When patients suffer from excessive depression they are hospitalized and the psychiatrists put them on psych medications to control their moods or depressive and psychotic behaviors. Although medications help to alleviate the conditions, one needs to understand that there are deeper causes that trigger depression in individuals. This paper attempts to unfold the various causes of depression like: Attachment issue as a cause of depression; Shame and guilt as a cause of depression; Anxiety as a cause of depression; Developmental conflicts in adolescence as a cause of depression; Grieving over a loss as a cause of depression; Lack of well integrated personality as a cause of depression; and Turmoil in the intrapsychic world as a cause of depression.