What is Major Depressive Disorder

Major depressive disorder is also referred as major depression or clinical depression or unipolar depression. Once, the major depressive disorder was called as common cold of psychiatric disorder. Major depression is basically identified or recognized by the two factors which trigger the major depressive disorder. The two factors or the two key features are the long-term continuing mood swings and lack of interest or cheerfulness in every activity. If the children develop major depressive disorder then irritation may be the key symptom of Major Depression Disorder. However, these symptoms have to be last for 2 consecutive weeks in order to diagnosis as the symptoms of major depression.

Major depressive disorder can lead severe mental disorder along with some complications which affect a person’s both personal and professional life. The person with major depression can experiences single episode of depressed mood or might have to deal with the several number of depressed mood.

It can affect at any gender or age. But the number of victims may vary according to the age or gender. Such as, the recent study shows that in the adult age, the women develop major depressive disorder twice than men. In addition this illness can hit both genders between 25-44 ages. But major depression becomes less common for people above 65 years. Moreover, the depressive rate is same between the teenager girl and teenager boy. The two main symptoms of major depressive illness are mood shift and lack of interest. But there are other signs and symptoms which people often experience due to major depression such as:

• Change of appetite
• Irregular sleep
• Feeling of hopelessness
• Sense of worthlessness
• Poor concentration or Indecisiveness
• Agitation
• Isolation from social life
• Repeated suicidal thoughts
• Lack of energy at every work
• Anxiety etc.

But the all people with unipolar disorder may not experience same symptoms. It can vary from person to person. Someone can gain weight, where someone can lose weight. Someone may face sleeping disorder and become irritated whereas someone may become hopeless and develop the sense of worthlessness.

There are several factors which are contributed in the mental state of any person and lead major depression. The most common reason behind major depressive illness is the genetic. It can be inherited from parents or siblings. Some evidence represent that the rate is 1.5 or 3 times more in those person who have a medical history of depression. People can also be attacked by major depressive disorder without any previous history or medical record of this illness. The other reasons which can trigger major depressive disorder are, poor relationship, any painful memory, failure of study or work, negative image of life, extra pressure both at work and home, pregnancy, other illness, irregular sleeping pattern  or any other stressful event of life.

Major depressive disorder interrupts in the regular life and reduce the ability to perform daily activities, such as eating, working, studying even in other pleasurable activities. Sometimes, major depression attacks a person only 1 time or sometimes it can attack a person several times during his/her lifetime.

Major depression is one of the severe forms of mental disorder. The rate of suicidal death is high among the sufferer of major depressive disorder comparing to other mental disorders.

This illness is a serious mental disorder, taking medicines and receiving therapy like cognitive, interpersonal therapy can be very helpful for the recovery of major depression disorder.