Depression

Depression usually occurs when the stress experienced by a person does not go away, and depression correlated with a dramatic event that just happened or happened to someone, such as the death of a loved one or losing a job can be very proud. Depression is a problem that can be experienced by anyone in the world. According to a study in the United States, 1 in 20 people in the United States each year are depressed, and at least 1 in 5 people suffer from depression throughout their life history. In Indonesia, many cases of depression occurred as a result of the crisis that hit in recent years. The issue of layoffs, the difficulty of finding employment, difficulties in maintaining employment and financial crisis is a problem right now is very common to be driving the emergence of depression among professionals.

According to a leading scientist is Phillip L. Rice (1992), depression is a mood disorder, prolonged emotional state that characterizes the whole mental processes (thinking, feeling and behaving) a person. In general, the dominant mood that emerges is the feeling of helplessness and loss of hope.

Cause

Maybe in between you have ever experienced depression without knowing the cause musababnya to make you more depressed because they do not see the answer. Finally you so grumpy itself, all so completely wrong because you think no one will understand your problem, how can expect help from others if it is the situation?

The real cause of depression can be seen from the biological factors (such as illness, hormonal effects, postpartum depression, a drastic weight reduction) and psychosocial factors (eg individual or interpersonal conflict, the problem of existence, personality problems, family problems). There is an opinion stating that the problem of heredity has an influence on depressive tendencies.

Symptom
Affected individuals show symptoms of depression in general, psychological, social and physical symptoms are typical, such as melancholy, prolonged sad, sensitive, prone to anger and irritability, loss of morale, loss of confidence, loss of concentration and decreased endurance. Before we explore further to recognize the symptoms of depression, it helps if we know what the symptoms mean. Symptoms are a set of events, behaviors or feelings that are often (but not always) appear at the same time. Symptoms of depression is a collection of behaviors and feelings that can specifically classified as depressed. But keep in mind, each person has a fundamental difference, which allows an event or behavior to be treated differently and bring different reactions from one person to another. Symptoms of depression can be seen from three aspects, namely in terms of physical symptoms, psychological and social. In more details, see the description below.

Physical Symptoms
According to some experts, the visible symptoms of depression has a wide range and variation according to the severity of depression. But in general there are some common physical symptoms are relatively easy to detect. Symptoms such as:

Disturbances in sleep patterns (inability to sleep, too much or too little)
The reduced level of activity. In general, people with depression show a passive behavior, like activities that do not involve anyone else like watching TV, eating, sleeping.
The reduced work efficiency. The cause is obvious, people affected by depression will be difficult to focus the attention or thoughts on something, or employment. So, they will also be difficult to focus your energy on those things a priority. Most who do precisely the things that are inefficient and not useful, such as snacking, daydreaming, smoking constantly, often called unnecessary. Clearly, people affected by depression will be seen from its working methods are becoming less structured, systematic work gets messed up or it works so slow.
Decreasing productivity. People affected by depression will lose some or all of his motivation. Why, he no longer could enjoy and feel satisfaction for what he did. He has lost interest and motivation to perform their activities as before. Therefore, the necessity to keep on the move makes it even more loss of energy due to the energy that is already widely used to defend themselves in order to continue to function as usual. They are easily tired, tired but not an activity that means!
Easy to feel tired and sick. Obviously, depression itself is a negative feeling. If someone is clearly negative feelings will make the weary burden of thoughts and feelings! ; And he must carry it anywhere and at any time, like it or not!
Psychic Symptoms

Take a good look at the bottom of this psychic phenomenon, whether you or your colleagues there who have signs like this:

Loss of confidence. Cause, people who are depressed tend to see things from the negative side, including the judge himself. Surely they are happy to compare himself with others. Others considered more successful, smart, lucky, wealthy, more educated, more experienced, more attention from employers, and other negative thoughts.
Sensitive. People who are depressed are happy to relate everything to do with him. Very sensitive feelings, so often seen to be neutral events from different viewpoints by them, even misinterpreted. As a result, they are easily offended, irritable, sensitive, suspicious of the intentions of others (which really is not anything), easily upset, depressed, and would rather be alone.
Feel useless. Feeling worthless because they feel it appear to be a failure, especially in the field or environment they are supposed to control. For example, a manager is depressed because he was reassigned to another part. In his perception, it is mutating due to the inability to assess his work and leadership are not enough to contribute as expected.
Feelings of guilt. Feelings of guilt often arise in the minds of people who are depressed. They looked at an event that happened to him as a punishment or a result of their failure to carry out responsibilities that should be done. Many of them feel themselves a burden to others and blame themselves for the situation.
Feel overwhelmed. Many people who blame others for their distress they experienced. They feel heavy burden because it felt too burdened with heavy responsibility.
Symptoms of Social

Do not be surprised if the problem of depression that began with self in turn affects the environment and employment (or other regular activities). How not, of course the environment will react to the behavior of depressed people are generally negative (easily upset, irritable, withdrawn, sensitive, easily tired, easily hurt). Social problems that occur usually revolve around the issues of interaction with colleagues, superiors or subordinates. This problem is not just a form of conflict, but other issues as well as feelings of inferiority, shame, worry if you are in between the group and feel comfortable to communicate normally. They feel unable to be open and active relationship with the environment even if there is a chance.