Major Depression Disorder

Major Depression Disorder

Evidence shows that Major Depression Disorder has been around four thousands of years. In the fourth century BC, Hippocrates referred to a group of symptoms including loss of appetite, insomnia, flat affect, and irritability as melancholia (Jackson). Taking accountability of melancholia appeared in ancient Mesopotamian texts in the second millennium B.C. At this time, any mental illness had something to do with the demons. It had to be checked by the priests. The first time that there was an understanding of depression it was truly considered more of a spiritual illness caused by demons rather than a physical illness. Ancient Greeks and Romans put taught about the causes of melancholia. For example in the 5th century B.C., Herodotus wrote about a king who was driven mad by evil spirits. Even early Babylonian, Chinese, and Egyptian civilizations point of view also related to mental illness, and used exorcism techniques (such as beatings, restraint, and starvation) which was designed to remove the demons. Roman and Greek doctors thought that depression was both a biological and psychological disease. Gymnastics, massage, special diets, music, and baths would help with the disorder.

Hippocrates, a Greek physician, said that the traits and mental illness had to do with the balance of body fluids called humours. There were four of these humours: yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood. Hippocrates thought that melancholia was caused by too much black bile in the spleen. He used bloodletting (a supposedly therapeutic technique which removed blood from the body), bathing, exercise, and dieting to treat the depression. The famous Roman philosopher and statesman Cicero argued that melancholia was caused by vi...

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... things can be really difficult. Feelings come and go for individual, they have intense feelings. They feel guilt and as if they are worthless to life as a human being. The individual doesn’t care for life anymore; they think they don’t exist so why should they care. Their point of view of everything changes from one moment to another, usually misinterpret negatively things. He or she carry guilt in them which makes them feel unwanted. What most people concern is that they do think about suicide at points in time. The point that they make might be that if they don’t care for themselves than no one will, so there is no point in living. Having thoughts of death is commonly seen in MDD cases. Really important is to keep a look out is if he or she has actually made a plan on committing suicide. Some do follow-through with the plan, unfortunately, they take their lives.