If you accidently sit down on your mobile phone and break it, you will become sad. If you accidently sit down on your girlfriend’s or boyfriend’s mobile and break it, and due to this, if they break up with you, then it might hit you differently. 

You might start feeling that how silly it was to break-up for such a petty reason! 

And later when you will find out that they wanted merely a reason to break-up with you and breaking of the mobile phone gave then an opportunity to break-up with you, it will hit you hard again.

In this case, you will have to cope up with the feeling of rejection, low self-esteem, emotional drain, overthinking, meaninglessness in life and so many other complex emotions that might lower the neurotransmitter levels in your mind for long time. That’s depression!

Sadness is an emotion, while depression is a prolonged state of mind without adequate level of dopamine in brain. Loss of loved ones, not being able to get a dream job, being unemployed, break-ups etc. are some of the psychological reasons for depression.

There are psychiatric reasons for depression as well. A person with Bipolar disorder lives in two states of mania and depression. In such cases, the depressive phase is not originating from a stressful or a negative thought, rather from the imbalances in the neurotransmitter levels inside brain.

It depends upon the condition. Counselling (also known as Psychotherapy) is a psychological pathway to treat depression. Medication is the psychiatric way to treat the depression. Sometimes both are required.

Understand this way: If someone is severely depressed because his girlfriend ditched him then psychiatric help will elevate his mood using anti-depressants but it won’t get the person a new girlfriend, or help in getting the patch-up done. The person has to develop a new belief system regarding romantic relationships. Here, CBT (Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy) or Logo therapy might be used by a professional to cure the prolonged sadness. 

Unemployment is stressful, and hence it can trigger depression. Statistics have shown that poor socio-economic conditions push people towards depression, hence there is a connection between depression and unemployment. 

Depression and type-2 diabetes have one thing in common- Both can be managed without medications. As far as curing is concerned, there is no cure.

Anyone can fell into depression and that’s normal.  Changing outlook on problems in life plays a significant roll in lowering the depression. 

To be able to stay out of depression, the most important thing someone needs is a positive outlook on life.

If you are facing severe depression, then reaching out a Psychiatrist becomes almost unavoidable. In general, if you have depression caused by some recent life events such as a breakup, business loss, loss of a loved one etc., it is preferred to see a Psychologist.

Pessimistic approach on life should be avoided. A series of setbacks are prone to make anyone pessimistic and it can outrage someone’s self-confidence or can make someone hopeless. Hence pessimism can trigger depressive symptoms. 

There are two levels of this battle.

1. A battle level where you can fight yourself.
2. A battle level where you need someone beside you.

One of the major factors that helps in battling the depression is an understanding of one’s thoughts and feelings and identifying the destructive thought processes. This helps in fighting the depression effectively.

It is fairly complex to find out the origin of a certain feeling and therefore one requires to seek a professional counselling session. Psychotherapy as well as medications both can help immensely in managing depression.

Sleeplessness or insomnia can be caused by overthinking, sleep cycle disturbance and of-course phone addiction. 

Inability to sleep is one of the indicators of depression but not necessarily it is depression. unless you meet other criteria for depression as stated by DSM-5.