What are the reasons for depression?

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Depression is a chronic mental condition. A person having depression feels sadness, being useless, loneliness and other negative feelings. Depression is dangerous because it may lead to thoughts about death, losing interest for life and different activities and as a result to lowering the quality of human life. Depression is in simple words is an ongoing suffering which should be stopped. If a person is simply upset, one can do some things, like visiting friends, doing some sport, etc. and get happy again, but it is not that easy if the person has depression.

Depression not only can last for a long time, but it can get worse. It is very important to as soon as possible elicit depression and start relevant treatment of this disorder, and even better if you actually do everything to prevent the occurrence of this condition.

In order to be able to prevent occurrence of depression, you should know the possible reasons for why depression may occur. There are several factors existing that may lead to the occurrence of depression:

• Physical, emotional or sexual abuse
• Certain medications
• Genetics
• Conflict
• Death or a loss
• Serious illnesses
• Major events
• Other personal problems
• Substance abuse

If you lead healthy lifestyle, like eat healthy foods and regularly do some sport, you will have more chances to fight this mental disorder. Also, you should avoid stressful situations. Being a normal part of life, excessive stress may still lead to depression. You should be especially careful if you have genetic disposition to mental illnesses.  

As you can see from the list, you should always keep some sort of balance in everything you do because any abuse increases your chances to suffer from depression in the future. You should be able to relax regularly.