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PREVALENCE AND PROGNOSIS Depression is one of the most common diseases and, incidentally, one of the most successfully treatable mental disorders. One in four women and one in ten men at least once in your life needs the help of a specialist in response to emerging depression. 90% of people seeking help in connection with depression, completely cured Manifestations Most patients with depression, anxiety or depression. They see themselves as hapless, helpless and forgotten. Typically, they are angry and dissatisfied with everything happening, nothing pleases them. Questioning them about the other complaints, you can find: lack or loss of appetite, or another sleep disorder (difficulty falling asleep, early awakening, sleep surface that offers no sense of relaxation, or nightmares); loss of satisfaction from the normal physiological acts, inability to rejoice , loss of interest in his surroundings, lack of strength and desire to do something, accompanied by a constant sense of fatigue, inability to concentrate on the simplest of situations, the feeling of helplessness and worthlessness, feelings of guilt. Virtually all patients with depression, there are many physical symptoms. Very often worried about the headache, dizziness, discomfort in the area of ??the heart and abdomen, pain in the joints. Constipation alternating with diarrhea, menstrual irregularities, loss of sexual desire - all this is often a sign of depression. It is hard to imagine a physical illness, which might not be an imitation of depression. It is for this reason that psychiatrists came the term "masked depression" for cases where the depression is "hiding" under the guise of somatic disorders. Such patients unsuccessfully treated by physicians and surgeons, gynecologists, and endocrinologists. According to statistics, more than a third of patients attending somatic clinics suffer hidden "masked" depression. HAZARDS The main danger for patients with depression is that at the peak of disease at the time of greatest anguish and despair that often occur suicide attempts. Particularly often such attempts occur in patients with severe anxiety. Every day 15 people aged between 15 and 24 kill themselves because of depression. Approximately the same number of suicides is observed after the age of 60 years. Depression - this is the only state that entails a number of unexpected deaths. The most effective way to prevent suicide - is early detection and timely treatment of depression. Types of Depression Depression has several forms. Diagnosing depression, the doctor uses a variety of medical terms. This can be neurotic or endogenous depression, unipolar or bipolar, situational or reactive. Each type requires its own approach and method of treatment. When you hear the term neurotic depression, it means that your condition is caused by a reaction to a variety of life situations.