Thursday, October 18, 2007

Diabetes and Depression - Cause and Effect

This short article poses the question, Does Diabetes Cause Depression.

No, it doesn't.

It might trigger an episode of depression, it might aggravate an existing condition, but it's not a cause of depression.

Depression isn't about events in your life, it's about a fundamental brain related disorder in thinking which leads to depressive behaviors, depressed moods, etc. It's not caused by bad potty training and it's not caused by other illness. Some of the episodes of severe depression symptoms can be triggered by life events, but that doesn't mean the life events are the cause.

Diabetes might make a depression worse. It can actually help though. Whether it helps or hurts depends on how you respond to your diabetes. If your able to respond to it pro-actively (something that can be hard to do if you're already depressed) then it might actually help a depression. The diabetes itself won't help it but the pro-active response can.

One of the best things you can do to self-treat depression is to just do things. Exercise helps, a diet high in things like dark green vegetables and fish helps. Accomplishments help.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

It has been medically proved that depression is much more common among the people who are above the age of 40. The matter to worry is that there are several diseases that attack a person above the age of 40, as for example, heart ailments, diabetes, erectile dysfunction etc. These diseases sometimes make it unfit for the antidepressants like xanax to be prescribed to the patients above this age group. Most of the antidepressants have side effects that make them unfit to be prescribed to the patients who are multiple medications.

July 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM  
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September 21, 2008 at 10:43 PM  

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