Recovering Depression Depression, it’s something all of us experienced in some point and time in our lives, whether for a day or for years. It is one of the most common diseases which can affect a 5th grade boy to 80 yrs old man. There is no age or sex boundary for depression. Most of the people that it affects aren’t even aware of the serious complications depression creates, and if they do, they don’t admit it to themselves. The major cause of depression is psychological, genetic or hereditary. Most of the time depression leads a person to commit suicide. There is help for all kind of depression and ways to overcome it. Medication is one of the options for a person going through depression. A person suffers from depression because he is convinced that everything he cares about is disappointed by him, and there is nobody who loves or cares about him. It’s the responsibility of the people around him to notice the changes. There are many signs when a person is going through depression and trying to commit suicide. Some of them are change in mood, breaking off in love relationship and friendship, drug and alcohol abuse. If somebody is going through depression, than it’s the duty of the family and friends to take him for help. But most importantly, they should make him feel loved and cared. It’s always better to deal with anything as soon as it is revealed. If a person finds out that he is going through depression or something is bothering him, it’s always good to seek for help. There are many medical treatments to overcome depression, but there are a few things that be done by himself before counseling. Work out, exercise, participate in social activities helps to distract the mind. Figuring out the problem that has been disturbing, and concentrating on the good aspect of life helps to improve the mood of depressed person. These will work for some people, but there are many who are seriously depressed and need to seek for medical help. Not everybody feels comfortable talking to a family member about his deepest emotion and that’s when small thing starts bothering him. Hiding things and not letting it out causes serious depression. And that’s why there is a professional help. The professionals like psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers helps in various ways, like talking personally, or arranging a group session. Psychiatrists are the medical doctors who are specialized in treating both emotional and psychological problems. Psychiatrists review the case history of the patient both medically and personally, because it might be the reason of the depression. After analyzing the cause of depression, the psychiatrist starts the treatment as accordingly. The basic concept of the sessions is to understand the feeling of the patient and try to make him overcome it. If the depression is caused by the imbalance in the brain, the patient is given a medical treatment. The other professional who is trained to evaluate people’s emotions, problems, and treatment are psychologists. They are trained to talk to patients in such a way that the patients open their heart and burst all their feelings. They talk to the patient about their life and things going on around them, and help the patient understand the main reason of the problem they are suffering from. The social workers help the people going through problem and who cannot afford the medication or a therapist. They arrange a group session to discuss a problem and provide food, shelter and care to those who need it. All these people help a person to overcome depression and they do their best at it, but it all depends on the person who is going through the entire mental and emotional trauma. It is all a person will to get well or not. If he wants to overcome it he will, but if he doesn’t want to fight back and wants to leave it like that then he won’t be able to recover his depression. It’s that simple, everything depends on the person will, if he wants to have a good day, then he will have a good day, no matter what comes in his way. On the other hand, if a person is not sure and is thinking that he is going to have a bad day he will have a rough day. That’s why all these professional people are there to help overcome the fear, the anxiety and the feelings; because the main reason of depression are the hidden inner feelings and emotions.