Melancholia is the scientific name for depression, and is characterized for the inability to experience pleasure. It doesn’t just cause feeling unhappy or sadness, having depres-sion dominates everyday life and causes mental weakening. Some affects caused by depression include the loss of interests in everything including things they are most interested in, they get insomnia, experience change in weight, and feeling worth-less. Although there is a low percentage rate in adult depres-sion, adolescent depression is increasing yearly. Suicide is a huge factor in having depression and can be treated with ther-apy and medicine. It’s unclear as to what causes depression, but an imbal-ance of certain neurotransmitters that send messages to the body and brain play a huge roll in the cause of depression. Seasons and the environment can cause a person to feel “blue” or sad. In other occasions most individuals experience depres-sion because of abuse, being neglected as a child/adult in which causes low self-esteem and negativity. Avoiding a prob-lem and not knowing how to face it, dealing with a painful memory, not being understood, or a problem that isn’t solved or can’t be solved can also cause depression, in these cases the patient is focusing and …show more content…
Depression doesn’t always cause sicknesses; researchers say that it can sometimes be in the patient’s mind, but others re-searched tests on animals and they experienced the same symp-toms. Depression is a syndrome. It not only causes emotional pain, but physical pain as well. Physically many patients have committed suicide and have harmed themselves, but it’s not just in self harm patients with depression sometimes feel the lack to keep up with good hygiene such as: brushing teeth, hair, taking showers, and shaving basically keeping up with