Stress and depression - Does stress increase depression?
By admin | May 9, 2007
Are you a fragile person who tends to think about even the smallest things in life? Then you must have heard that you are stressed in life from the persons that are around you and those who are a part of your life. stress is not always a hick up, it is needed in small amount to bring the best output out of a person, but it becomes a problem when it gets out of proportion and then it starts creating a vacuum space around the person as if there is nothing else in the world apart from the thing that is stressing him or her. This is when things blow off and the person tends to forget that after all he is a human and has family and friends to look after. This situation is termed as depression and yes excessive stress surely leads to it.
Thus we can say that if there are nominations for the aspects that lead to depression, then the award will go to stress without any doubt. You can get as many examples as you want, all of them will prove that a person is never depressed until he or she gets a stressful job in hand which pressurize him or her to break under the immense pressure and finally getting mentally depressed.
It is a belief that the cause of depression is the stress due to excessive work load. It is not only about one kind of stress that can make you depresses, there are various forms of stress namely the social stress, which includes job stress or work load. Apart from this form there are problems in affairs, monetary worries, staying up late, uneven and unrestrained lifestyle, pressures of study and receiving high-quality grades. These are some of the events that can cause an equal amount and degree of stress in individuals. What happens is that the problems of children and other poor people do not get public and hence we remain unaware of the stress that these people face through out their lives. What we believe is only true for a limited class, the working class, but there are much more happenings that we do not see in the perspective.
Other events that could cause depression are: death among associates, change of work, moving to a new home, etc. While these events cannot be avoided, we must come up with an effectual pressure coping and treatment machinery to be able to prosper even in demanding circumstances. Once you understand to cope up with the stress levels, there is very little chance that you will be depressed in life.
One way to cope up with stress levels is to remain positive in life as negative thinking can make you shiver under pressure situations as you cannot think of anything else then a negative result which eventually makes it a vicious circle of depressed thoughts and hence the output is always a negative one. Positive thinking on the other hand can lift you up at the most crucial stages in life and hence there is nothing compared to a mentally tough person as far as working under stress is considered.
Thus live healthy and positive life, no one can make you depressed under any situation.
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