By Garba Adamu Gwangwangwan
Depression is a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of life enjoyment or inability to visualize/focus on a happy future.
It is a mental health disorder which can affect a person’s mood, thoughts, and behaviour. The physical anormaly is a common mental health condition that can be caused by different factors which may varies from one person to another such as predisposition, environmental factors, life events, and chemical imbalances in the brain.
Depression is a universal mental health malfunction that negatively persuade how people rightly think,feel or act affecting an estimated 350 million people globally.
Statistics from the world health Organisation (WHO) had shown that depression is the leading cause of disability in the world over with more than 264 million people suffering from moderate to severe depression.
A research conducted prooved that the women folk are twice as likely to suffer from depression compared to male gender.
More often than not one of the type of the disease is suicidal ideation which is the world leading factor that influenced people to commit suicide as a result of this menace.
Some likely symptoms of depression may include persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and worthlessness, loss of interest in activities that were once enjoyable by the victim, changes in appetite, sleeping patterns, decreased energy and fatigue, difficulty in concentrating or making decisions amongst others in addition to thought of self-harm, agitation and physical symptoms such as headache and stomachache with no apparent medical cause.
Worthy to note by anybody experiencing one of these symptoms is to urgently seek for quick medical assistance from the concerned mental health professional for improved quality health care service to avoid psychological problem as the ailment can be cured in many ways.
To take good care of your physical and mental health there is need for eating a healthy balanced diet,engaging in regular exercise, adequate sleeping to manage stress and given priority to personnal hygiene.Other protective measures such as strengthening cordial relationships with family and friends as well as avoid keeping problems in mind without opening up to a trusted person who can profer solutions where neccessary can serve as a way forward in contracting the disease
Garba Adamu Gwangwangwan wrote from Bauchi, adamugarba0079@gmail.com
