Depression

Environmental causes of depression

Abuse. Past physical, sexual, or emotional abuse can cause depression later in life.
Certain medications. For example, some drugs used to treat high blood pressure, such as beta-blockers or reserpine, can increase your risk of depression.
Conflict. Depression may result from personal conflicts or disputes with family members or friends.
Death or a loss. Sadness or grief from the death or loss of a loved one, though natural, can also increase the risk of depression.
Genetics. A family history of depression may increase the risk. It's thought that depression is passed genetically from one generation to the next. The exact way this happens, though, is not known.
Major events. Even good events such as starting a new job, graduating, or getting married can lead to depression. So can moving, losing a job or income, getting divorced, or retiring.
Other personal problems. Problems such as social isolation due to other mental illnesses or being cast out of a family or social group can lead to depression.
Serious illnesses. Sometimes depression co-exists with a major illness or is a reaction to the illness.
Substance abuse. Nearly 30% of people with substance abuse problems also have major or clinical depression.
http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/causes-depression

Biological Causes of Depression

when the changes on the brain occur biological causes happens such as important levels on the hormones. what you inherit from your parents are the genetic causes. if one of the parents, either the mom or the dad has depression then that kid may have the possibility to have it to.

Cognitive Causes of depression

Aaron T. Beck, who developed the theory behind Cognitive theory of depression, proposes that depression results of the tendency to view oneself, ones world and ones future in a negative manner. This view is formally called the ‘negative triad’. It is theorized that images and thoughts influence emotions and behaviors and that ones behavior is influenced by the ‘negative triad’. This negative view is usually a distortion of reality. The person develops a system of viewing the self, the world and the future which is global, rigid and negative. These schemes or system errors develop and are learned through relationships, unfavorable life situations often in childhood and the formative years. When the adult re-experiences similar events, these learned silent assumptions resurface.

http://www.md-phc.com/puntil/ccausesof.htm

Cognitive Triad

Beck's cognitive triad is a triad of types of negative thought present in depression proposed by Aaron Beck in 1976. The triad forms part of his Cognitive Theory Of Depression.
The triad involves negative thoughts about:
The self The world/environment and
The future

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck's_cognitive_triad

Articles on depression #3

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094933.htm

Conducted by Science daily on november 18 2009. it was a study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway and the institute of Psychiatry(Iop) at King´s College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking. The study shows how patients with depression face an increased risk of mortality, while a copmbination of depression and anxiety in patients lowers mortality compared to those with depression alone. A survey of sixty thousand people and a comprehensive mortality database, the researchers found that over the four years of folowwing the surve the mortality risk was increased to a similiar extent in people who were depressed as in people who were smokers. The findings, Dr.Atewart makes suggestions on the focus of future develoments in the treatment of depression and anxiety.

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Articles on Depression #2

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802165402.htm

Conducted by Science Daily on August 3, 2010.( Lawrence T. Lam, Ph.D., of the School of Medicine, Sydney, and the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia, and Zi-Wen Peng, M.Sc., of the Ministry of Education and SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.)
They used and studied pathological internet use and later on the mental health problems of about 1041 teens in china.
Participants were assessed for depression and anxiety using previously validated scales. They also completed a questionnaire to identify pathological Internet use, including questions that reflect typical behaviors of addiction. When the study began 62 participants were classified as having moderately pathological use of the internet and that two participants were severely at risk. The conclusion that can be proved about this article is that young people who are initially free of mental health problems but use the internet pathologically could develop depression as a consequence.