DEPRESSION IN MARRIAGE

A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.

Possible causes include a combination of biological, psychological and social sources of distress. Increasingly, research suggests that these factors may cause changes in brain function, including altered activity of certain neural circuits in the brain.

The persistent feeling of sadness or loss of interest that characterises major depression can lead to a range of behavioural and physical symptoms. These may include changes in sleep, appetite, energy level, concentration, daily behaviour or self-esteem. Depression can also be associated with thoughts of suicide.

The mainstay of treatment is usually medication, talk therapy or a combination of the two. Increasingly, research suggests that these treatments may normalise brain changes associated with depression

 

Depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Fortunately, it is also treatable. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease your ability to function at work and at home.

Depression symptoms can vary from mild to severe and can include:

• Feeling sad or having a depressed mood
• Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed
• Changes in appetite — weight loss or gain unrelated to dieting
• Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
• Loss of energy or increased fatigue
• Increase in purposeless physical activity (e.g., inability to sit still, pacing, handwringing) or slowed movements or speech (these actions must be severe enough to be observable by others)
• Feeling worthless or guilty
• Difficulty thinking, concentrating or making decisions
• Thoughts of death or suicide

Depression is a very bad state for a normal human being to get into and come of it. It takes a lot of help from people around the person that is depressed. A lot of things can cause a person to feel depress in marriage and it can lead to anything.

Marriage can make you depressed

Big yesss…. Marriage that there is no peace, trust, joy, fighting all the time, husband beating his wife. Can make you depressed. Problems in getting along as a married couple can play a significant role in the development of depression. Husbands and/or wives in marriages with a lot of tension, disagreement, or arguments are 10 to 25 times more likely to experience depression than people who are unmarried or in collaborative marriages. A lot of people are fall into depressing state is mainly because of a lot of problem in their marriage that can’t handle.

Depression can impact your marriage negatively

 The impact of depression in marriage is so grieve that you need to handle before it become something else.  Couples where one or both partners are depressed, research shows marital conflict is more likely. When depression alters perception and causes a negative viewpoint, there is more opportunity for conflict. A depressed spouse may say hurtful things, respond irritably in conversation, or simply ignore their

 

Does depression affect marriage?

Depression changes how you view yourself and your partner. People who have been married or in close relationships with someone who suffers from depression say that it changes their behavior and personality. They seem like a different person. In couples where one or both partners are depressed, research shows marital conflict is more likely. When depression alters perception and causes a negative viewpoint, there is more opportunity for conflict. A depressed spouse may say hurtful things, respond irritably in conversation, or simply ignore their spouse . depression takes all peace and happiness in marriage away. When all the good feelings is out of the marriage depression will come into the mind that feel like a victim in marriage and a lot can make a man or woman feel depressed in marriage, not only when problem comes, it can be when things are not working out the way the person want or plan. Being depressed can make you helpless and at a point when you can’t handle it again committing can come into your mind.

Things to do when you are feelings sad and depressed

Sadness and depress goes together. A person that is depressed has gone through a lot of sadness because true be told a depressed person cannot be happy, the person is sad about everything and anything around him or her.

1. Go to a place that will not remind you of the things is making feel sad or depressed

2. Listen to other people’s story: this will make you comply your problem to their and you will see that you not the only in that state of mind

3.  Watch movie that makes you laugh a lot

4. Cry over nothing if necessary

5. Go to the beach and shout at the top of your voice saying things that makes you sad

6. Talk to a very trust friend or family or even a stranger

7. Go to a quite place and think about nothing and if your mind is trying to place what your depressed about in your mind, just think about delicious food that you have  never eat before

8. Sleep a lot

9. Never ever think of committing suicidal

10. Write the things you wish for in life that can bring a change and work towards achieving them

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