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What is Depression?
Depression is a severe mental illness also referred to as major depressive disorder. This illness affects our whole body. It concerns a person's mood, thoughts, and also emotions. Depression interferes with a person's day-to-day activities. This disorder is not like any other day where a person feels blue or sad. They have a persistent feeling of loneliness, anxiety, and sadness. It is not typical every day of a person. They constantly fight with their mind. Depression is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be willed or wished away. When a person experiences depression, they simply can't "pull themselves together" and get better. Treatment is often needed and many times crucial to recovery.
Just like many other illnesses, depression has different forms, three of the most common types of depressive disorders includes [ 1 ]
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Factors Leading to Depression
Personality
 Current evidence suggests that depression is linked to traits such as neuroticism/negative emotionality, extraversion/positive emotionality, and conscientiousness. Moreover, personality characteristics appear to contribute to the onset and course of depression through a variety of pathways [ 2 ]
Illness and Health Issues
Any chronic condition can trigger depression, but the risk increases if the illness is long-term, more severe and causes more disruption in the patient’s life. The rates for depression that occurs with other medical illnesses is quite high. For example, people suffering from Heart attack have 40% to 65% chances to suffer from depression. [ 4 ]
Family History
Doctors agree that family history is one piece of the puzzle.
Depression is inherited. “What we mean by a hereditary link or genetics is a predisposition to depression,” says neuroscientist Fadi Tayim, PhD, Clinical Neuroscience Institute.  Dr. Tayim further explains that in addition to genetic predisposition, it generally takes a triggering event in your environment or relationships to lead to a depressive episode. 
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A traumatic experience may lead to both depression and PTSD. As per our research, another factor leads to a devastating impact on mental health.
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While PTSD is usually mentioned in a crisis like terrorist attacks, pandemics, and natural disasters that create an enormous amount of stress and anxiety for survivors, contributing to mental health problems like depression and posttraumatic stress disorder
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One such example where a terrific event had a devastating impact on people’s emotions is a lasting historical legacy relating to 9/11.
63%
Americans said they couldn’t stop watching news coverage of the attacks.
71%
Adults said they felt depressed.
49%
Had difficulty concentrating
10 Years After the attack
15%
Registry enrollees reported depression.
10%
Reported both depression and PTSD.
Up to 20% of adults directly exposed to the disaster or injured in the attack had PTSD symptoms five to six years after the attack; this is four times the rate in the general population. [ 6 ]
COVID-19 and Depression
Another such incident where the rate of depression increased was due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Fact:
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Experts found that people with COVID-19 produce cytokines, chemokines, and other substances that cause inflammation. Besides, they found a specific type of cytokine called T-helper-2 cell-secreted cytokines.
If the cytokines are not adequately controlled, they can cause depression. (Source)
