For more Info visit www.healthlibrary.com "Why Someone Gets Depressed" by Ms. Anu Mehta held on 17th May 2016. This talk is about what is depression?, Causes of depression, Symptoms of depression, Test and diagnosis, Treatments for depression.

1. DEPRESSI
ON

2. DEPRESSI
ON
it’s a
feeling

3. feeling of
Emptiness
Isolation-alone, misfit
lack of direction
No Control
Tiredness
It robs us of our sex drive and
ability to love, laugh and play
Loss of appetite

4. Actor DeepikaPadukone breaks the silence.NDTV's Barkha Dutt, DeepikaPadukone

5. "if I can impact one life in this entire
process of speaking up and letting people
know that it's something I have been
through and something that I could deal
with because I had a fantastic support
system.”-DeepikaPadukone

6. Here were going to be people saying
a)Think that she has everything she needs
b) Depression is still regarded as some sort
of a luxury disease.
c)That always you have to be rich and
privileged to suffer it .
d)These are the misconceptions, this is the

7. MONEY DOES NOT BUY HAPPINESS

8. India is the most
depressed country in
the world according to
WHO

9. INDIA at 36% this is highest
rate of depression
anywhere on the globe

10. We also have the highest suicide
rate of any country in the world.
Over 1 lakh people on an average
kill themselves in India every year
and these are the only reported
figures of depression and suicide

11. Women
Men

12. Look at the menstrual cycle, their fluctuation and
progesterone can be to depression. There is a role
issue women women have to juggle into multiple
roles if you have to be a working mother you know
there is a lot more pressure. Women tend to be more
emphatic, so they tend sometimes put the need of
others above themselves. So partly cultural and partly
biological. But there is another side of the story, that
men when they are depressed don't seek help .When
they are depressed they don't cry they get angry and
alienate people around them. So the depressed man
is often the most lonely ,isolated and maybe alcoholic
who is bereft of any company and therefore might
end up committing suicide.

13. 70%
Under the age of
35 years

14. Highest suicides
are in the age group of
15 – 29 years

15. Rate of suicides
in our country is 10
times more than
America

16. General view around
Mental – Health is
Stigma
Sense of embarrassment
Denial
Secrecy
Silence

17. Global
Epidemic

18. Women
Men

19. “People look at the mental
health in a way that they do not
look at the physical health,
almost as if it is to suggest that
it in the control of the person
impacted about the person to
do something about it.-
by Barkha Dutt

20. General view around
Mental – Health is
Stigma
Sense of embarrassment
Denial
Secrecy
Silence

21. Depression
A lot of times it's not just the person who is
suffering, there are a lot of people who are
ready and willing to take that help but it's the
immediate family and friends around who sort
of suppress them and say, 'No, no, you can't go
to the doctor because nobody does this, what
are other people gonna say,'

22. Depression
Don't assume when a person is crying ,
breaking down or crying all the time
don't assume that they are doing it for
attention, don't assume that they are
going through mood swings. You know
be alert about it.

23. Depression
-because counselors are able to discuss in a very
subtle way with them and bring out what could be
the cause or what is actually going on in their mind
or physically. And then if required, it's the
counselor who would put you on to a doctor and
the person concerned needs a lot of convincing.
Try to get in a counselor

24. What is Depression?
Severe despondency and dejection, typically felt over a period
of time and accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and
inadequacy.
ORIGIN late Middle English : from Latin depressio(n-), from
deprimere ‘press down’

25. What is grief?
Deep sorrow, esp. that caused by an external
factor
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French grief,
from grever ‘to burden’ (see grieve )

26. What is sadness?
feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy
Latin satis ‘enough.’ The original meaning was
replaced in Middle English by the senses
[steadfast, firm] and [serious, sober,] and
later [sorrowful.]

27. So when you are sad, you know why you
are sad. You have probably lost your job or
fought with someone, all kinds of things.
you have fought with your mom. So
sadness comes with different, I think when
you are sad you can sort of tell why you are
sad.

28. What causes Depression?
• Biological
• Psychological
• Cultural
• Physiological

29. The three ‘F’ response
Fight
Flight
freeze

30. Problem is when
When this
response goes on
forever- for
months/weeks

31. Depression
Is an inflammatory disease like any other
disease – Cortisol Stress Hormone
• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Cancer

32. •starts wrestling with themselves.
•we assume that the sadness is going to pass
•There is a certain amount of guilt and shame
•If you have high blood sugar you are not alone in your room
feeling bad about your low blood sugar.
•If you have a broken bone people come and say listen you
are hurt can we help you.
•With depression it is a lonely, isolating, private condition that
a person cannot even share in our country.

33. Why are we not able to shake off this sense of
embarrassment , guilt, shame?
the idea is you are mad if
there is something wrong
with you...
Dimagkharabhai...

34. Anyone can get it.
It is okay to get depression
There is nothing shameful
Why are you depressed you have nothing
to be depressed about?
We add guilt and you add shame.

36. EXCERCISE

37. COMMUNITY AND SUPPORT

38. CREATE FACE TO FACE CONNECTION
NOT FACETIME CONNECTION