Anxiety refers to the feeling of worry or nervousness about what may happen about something. An anxious person tends to feel this whenever he/she faces an uncertain or stressful situation.

Depression is a complex medical condition that occurs when a person faces a variety of physical, psychological, or social issues. Some possible causes of depression include major life events (losing a job, leaving home, or getting divorced), abuse (physical, sexual or emotional), serious illnesses, certain medication, substance abuse, life/personal conflicts, change in appearance, death or loss of a loved one, and genetics.

When a person suffers from depression, he/she may show changes in his/her way of thinking. People who are diagnosed with depression may show signs of trouble when making decisions or when trying to concentrate. They often experience having self-destructive or suicidal thoughts.

“Feeling down or depressed” is the feeling of momentary sadness. For example, you failed your exam. You feel sad about the result but you know that you can have a better result the next time.

“Having depression” means that you have prolonged sadness, you feel hopeless most of the time. An example is the loss of a loved one. You are unable to cope with the loss you don’t want to honestly talk about it so you put up your defense mechanism and still feel hopeless about the situation.

Depression

Your friend may not like you breaking their trust if you tell an adult about it but professionals can help. It takes medication, counseling, and changes in the environment to help in alleviating depression.

Tell an adult you trust if you think you know somebody who has depression.

Effects of depression

Having depression makes a person think of the worst most of the time and when they feel no motivation, hopelessness, and sad all the time, they may think of suicidal attempts. Counseling is great to have because you will not be judged on your views and it can help you lift some worries.

Depression is hard to treat but it is curable.