Why do people suffer from depression? These two main reasons are responsible

Depression is caused by external and internal pressure. If there is no way to relieve the pressure in your heart and you keep keeping the worries in your heart, your mood will become depressed over time, leading to depression. Many patients with depression engage in suicidal behavior because they cannot find relief on their own and can only resort to this method. So why do people suffer from depression?

1. People with low self-esteem are prone to depression

The causes of depression are quite complex, including social factors, genetic factors, personality factors, etc. First, for urbanites, there are three social factors that directly lead to the increasing trend of depression:

1. Changes in material living conditions have put forward higher requirements for everyone;

2. People think and expect more about themselves;

3. The burden brought by the material society makes it difficult for more and more people to bear.

Secondly, some patients have genetic causes. If someone in the family has suffered from depression, the incidence rate of immediate family members (parents, children) is 2-3 times higher than that of the average person. The earlier the person becomes ill, the greater the risk to his or her relatives. However, having a family history of depression does not necessarily mean that you will develop depression.

Second: It’s a personality factor. People who are negative, have low self-esteem, are perfectionists, and cannot express their anger are prone to depression.

Depression is more likely in winter; scholars at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, also studied the impact of seasonal changes on depression. The research center randomly selected 200 people from the general population of the Bethesda area for the study, and the report showed that about 4% of people suffered from seasonal affective disorder, that is, people are more likely to show depression as winter approaches. In Sweden, doctors believe that 20% of the 8.5 million Swedes are affected to varying degrees by seasonal affective disorder.

A large number of patients experience depression due to a variety of other reasons. It has now been found that severe depression is likely to occur after acute heart attacks and strokes, as well as in cancer patients. People who were abused as children are also at increased risk of depression. There is good reason to suggest that childhood abuse and neglect, which lead to increased HPA axis (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal cortex) excitability, multiplies the risk of depression.