Online depression test. Clinical tests to determine the level of depression and anxiety online

The tests presented on this page are validated and have a high sensitivity and specificity. This means that the probability of not detecting depression is test sensitivity, or reveal it where it is not - test specificity are quite low. However, it is important to understand that the result that a depression test gives is not yet a clinical diagnosis. Only a psychiatrist or psychotherapist has the right to diagnose depression from a medical point of view.

Before taking the depression test, it is important to know:

Tests for depression, like drugs, undergo clinical trials!

The task of online testing is to determine whether you are at risk and whether it is time for you to think about choosing an adequate treatment method.

Think before you take the depression test, are you ready for the next step? For example, to seek help from a specialist if the test result shows a high level of depression? (From personal experience - getting test results confirming depression made me feel even worse, even more depressed)

Depression test. Which to choose.

All depression tests presented here are reasonably reliable (sensitivity and specificity). The difference between the two is not in the probability of detecting depression, but in how much they are recommended for self-diagnosis of depression and for which age group they are more suitable. The online test itself, in most cases, will not take much time - 5-15 minutes.

Beck depression test.

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

Beck Depression Scale II (BDI-II)

This scale for assessing the severity of depression was developed in 1996, taking into account the comments of the American Psychiatric Association. Some items of the first edition of the test were removed, some were added or modified to more accurately and fully reflect the modern understanding of depression by the professional community and comply with the requirements of the current editions of the DSM and ICD. In particular, this version of the test addresses a greater number of symptoms specific to depression, including atypical symptoms, and proceeds from an assessment of the person's condition over the past two weeks (unlike the first version of the test, where patients were asked to rate their feelings over the past week). If you are taking the test "for yourself", then this is a good choice.

The Beck Depression Scale-2 is suitable for testing depression in adolescents (starting at age 13).

Zang scale for self-reported depression.

This scale was developed by William Zang of Duke University and can be effectively used in a variety of situations: in clinical research, to monitor the effectiveness of various treatments and drugs, and as a screening tool in general practice. The difference from other tests is that the Zang Depression Scale was originally developed to self-assess the level of depression. In particular, the wording of the questions is more understandable to the "non-specialist".

The Zang scale is also a simple tool for monitoring changes in depression severity over time. The scale contains 20 questions, the duration of the test is about 10 minutes.

Hamilton Depression Test.

The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale is the most widely used scale to measure the degree of depression. in hospital. It was developed in 1960 in the UK to measure the degree of depression in a patient before, during and after treatment. Many versions have since been adapted, including structured interview guides, self-report forms, and computerized versions. The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale contains a relatively large number of somatic symptoms and relatively few cognitive or affective symptoms.

Initially, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale was designed to be interviewed by an experienced clinician with experience in dealing with mental patients. Currently, it is mainly used in medical institutions of the relevant profile and pharmaceutical companies to analyze the effectiveness of antidepressants. (For reference, a 3-point change in test results is proof of the effectiveness of an antidepressant.)
Therefore, you should not recommend this test for self-testing unless you have been instructed by a specialist to choose this particular test.

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Test

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was developed for the purpose of quickly testing patients in clinics (which is why it is called hospital scale) by doctors who are not experts in psychology and psychiatry. It's no secret that our state of mind greatly affects our ability to endure pain, cope with the unknown, and fight various diseases. And, it is reasonable to assume that if the doctor knows about our psychological state, he will be able to more accurately diagnose the underlying disease (as if adjusting for our anxiety, pessimism, fear of the future, etc.) But the accuracy of the test turned out to be very, very high, therefore, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale has become widespread.

In addition, anxiety and depression often occur together. According to the monoamine theory of depression (and the whole model of antidepressants is built on it), increased anxiety would be a consequence of low levels of serotonin.

What to do after a depression test.

First of all, if your test result showed depression, do not rush to get upset.

In modern conditions, depression is treated quite well. Depending on the severity of your depressive disorder, experts recommend seeing a therapist, a psychologist, or both.

With a severe degree of depression, it is difficult to do without the medical help of a psychotherapist (antidepressants), most likely you simply will not have the strength either to work on yourself on your own or to work with a psychologist. Subsequently, I recommend involving a psychologist in the treatment - a statistically better (and faster) result is achieved by specialists using cognitive-behavioral therapy methods.

For moderate to mild depression, you may consider the services of a psychologist as your first choice. But in making this choice, be sure that you have ruled out possible somatic causes of depression - many diseases can produce symptoms similar to depression, or simply cause it.

Know that you are not alone.

Only according to official statistics, according to the data provided by the WHO, in Russia 5.5% of the population suffer from depression. But, knowing how few people go to the doctor with their symptoms, many experts believe that this figure can be safely multiplied by two.

Think about it - about one in ten people in your environment is experiencing depression right now. I, before my depression, did not notice such people - they tend to be unnoticed. But after my recovery, I see them, I suppose I see them - there really are a lot of them.

Remember, or better yet, write down the result of your depression test.

They say depression has no color. Solid lead gray, hopelessness and gloom, through which not a single ray of hope will break through. Therefore, we often do not notice if we are getting better or worse, even if we take some steps towards healing. But this grayness still has shades - if you are being treated, it makes sense to periodically (for example, once a month) take the selected depression test again.

A change in results may be the very ray of hope that has broken through the fog of depression. Even a small but monitored positive change can have a big therapeutic effect.

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Every person from time to time is subject to a decline in mood, sad thoughts and memories, a need for solitude.

Negative emotions, fatigue and temporary dissatisfaction are not yet a reason to contact a specialist.

But if the depressed state and fears are of a protracted nature, interfere with a normal life and work, adversely affect physical health, then there is every reason to turn to a psychotherapist.

What is this disease?

clinical depression , otherwise major depressive disorder- an exacerbated form of mental illness, which is accompanied by characteristic symptoms: depressed mood, desire for isolation from the outside world, feelings of guilt and impotence in a difficult situation, thoughts of suicide.

Society often underestimates the danger of clinical depression, considering it a manifestation of a capricious nature, laziness, and the habit of "indulging personal weaknesses."

Long-term, systematically recurring symptoms require immediate medical attention.

People of different ages and social status are subject to depression, regardless of the type of activity and level of education.

ICD-10 code

Major depressive disorder is included in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 10th revision.

Section 5 is called "Mental and Behavioral Disorders", is coded F00-F99 and contains 11 blocks. The section classifies disorders of a neurotic nature, behavioral signs, mental disorders.

Depression is on the coded list of mental illnesses F30-F39. This subsection contains a description of diseases in which a change in a person's emotions and moods leads him to a state of clinical depression.

Depressive disorder can be mild, moderate, or severe. All 3 phases of the course of the disease are coded F32 according to ICD-10.

Causes

Depressive disorder is not the result of bad parenting or weakness of character. Mental illness has specific objective causes.

Factors in the appearance of a clinical depressive state:

1. Hormonal imbalance. A decrease in the level of neurotransmitters (serotonin and dopamine) - substances that transmit impulses between brain neurons, occurs as a result of prolonged stress, an unfavorable life situation, and unresolved problems.
2. cognitive reasons. Low self-esteem, a sense of inadequacy, complex behavior. Or vice versa, inflated conceit against the background of surrounding indifference.
3. hereditary disposition. Scientists have proven the influence of genetic continuity on the risk of mental illness and character traits that contribute to the development of clinical depression.
4. Severe illnesses and injuries. Pain, disability and social activity, a long period of adaptation adversely affect the nervous system.
5. Situational causes account for over 50% of all episodes of depression. These include: the death of a loved one, domestic violence, poor living conditions, lack of livelihood, inability to pay a loan, a difficult divorce.
6. Side effect powerful medicines.

Symptoms and signs

Symptoms of a depressive disorder are caused by a violation of the transmission of impulse signals in the brain.

Clinical depression has physiological manifestations:

• frequent headaches;
• digestive disorders;
• prolonged chest pain;
• dizziness, nausea;
• insomnia, or vice versa, the inability to get enough sleep during the night, drowsiness and fatigue during the day;
• a sharp weight loss up to anorexia due to loss of appetite or an increase in body weight due to the habit of “jamming” stress.

Major depressive disorder can be diagnosed by doctors in cases of systematic, repeated repetition of one or more signs of the development of the disease.

Typical signs of the disease:

1. Uncharacteristic behavior . A person becomes withdrawn, avoids social contacts, inadequately reacts to ongoing events.
2. Lack of joy and interest in life, apathy . Decreased concentration.
3. Unreasonable irritability and manifestation of aggression . Discontent and anger at one's fate, rejection of life circumstances.
4. Low mood, obsessive thoughts about his own hopelessness, insolvency. Feelings of guilt and worthlessness can lead to suicide attempts.
5. Change in psychomotor reactions . Someone hardly reacts to the events, and someone becomes restless and unnecessarily impulsive in their behavior.

In women, depression is characterized by:

• unstable emotional state, a desire to complain about fate and cry;
• groundless suspicions of the husband's infidelity, irritation with the spouse and children for any reason;
• dissatisfaction with one's own appearance;
• decreased or absent sexual desire.

In men, signs of clinical depression are manifested:

• erectile dysfunction;
• obsessive thoughts about losing their male attractiveness;
• fears about non-compliance with social standards, about low social status compared to more successful colleagues, acquaintances and friends;
• the use of alcoholic and narcotic substances, passion for gambling and extreme sports.

Test

A lot of thematic sites have been created on the Internet, where any interested reader can take a test online to identify a depressive state.

The most accurate and simple test is the American psychotherapist Aaron Beck's Depression Scale. However, you should not rely 100% on the result and personally make a diagnosis, especially self-medicate.

The test serves clue- a high score indicates the need to visit a specialist in the near future.

Take the TEST

A.T. Depression Scale Beck

Instruction:

This questionnaire contains groups of statements.

Read each group of statements carefully. Then identify in each group the one statement that best fits how you felt THIS WEEK AND TODAY.

Check the box next to the selected statement. If several statements from the same group seem equally well suited to you, then check the boxes next to each of them.

Before making your choice, make sure you read All of the statements in each group. At the end, calculate the total points of the selected answers.

1 .

0 I don't feel upset, sad.

1 I am upset.

2 I'm upset all the time and I can't disconnect from it.

3 I'm so upset and unhappy that I can't stand it.

2 .

0 I am not worried about my future.

1 I feel puzzled about the future.

2 I feel that there is nothing in store for me in the future.

3 My future is hopeless and nothing can change for the better.

3 .

0 I don't feel like a failure.

1 I feel like I have failed more than other people.

2 When I look back at my life, I see many failures in it.

3 I feel that as a person I am a complete failure.

4 .

0 I get as much satisfaction from life as before.

1 I don't get as much satisfaction from life as I used to.

2 I no longer get satisfaction from anything.

3 I am completely dissatisfied with life, and I'm tired of everything.

5 .

0 I don't feel guilty about anything.

1 Quite often I feel guilty.

2 Most of the time I feel guilty.

3 I feel guilty all the time.

6 .

0 I don't feel like I can be punished for anything.

1 I feel that I can be punished.

2 I expect that I can be punished.

3 I feel already punished.

7 .

0 I was not disappointed in myself.

1 I am disappointed in myself.

2 I hate myself.

3 I hate myself.

8 .

0 I know that I am not worse than others.

1 I criticize myself for mistakes and weaknesses.

2 I blame myself all the time for my actions.

3 I blame myself for everything bad that happens.

9 .

0 I never thought of committing suicide.

1 Thoughts of suicide come to me, but I will not carry them out.

2 I would like to commit suicide.

3 I would kill myself if the opportunity presented itself.

10 .

0 I don't pay more than usual.

1 Now I cry more than before.

2 Now I cry all the time.

3 I used to be able to cry, but now I can't, even if I want to.

11 .

0 Now I am no more irritable than usual.

1 I get irritated more easily than before.

2 Now I constantly feel irritated.

3 I became indifferent to things that irritated me before.

12 .

0 I have not lost interest in other people.

1 I am less interested in other people than before.

2 I almost lost interest in other people.

3 I have completely lost interest in other people.

13 .

0 I put off making a decision sometimes, just like before.

1 I delay making decisions more often than before

2 I find it harder to make decisions than before.

3 I can no longer make decisions.

14 .

0 I don't feel like I look worse than usual.

1 It worries me that I look old and unattractive.

2 I know that there have been significant changes in my appearance that make me unattractive.

3 I know I look ugly.

15 .

0 I can work just as well as before.

1 I need to make an extra effort to start doing something.

2 I hardly force myself to do anything.

3 I can't do any work at all.

16 .

0 I sleep as well as before.

1 Now I sleep worse than before.

2 I wake up 1-2 hours earlier and find it hard to get back to sleep.

3 I wake up a few hours earlier than usual and can no longer fall asleep.

17 .

0 I am no more tired than usual.

1 Now I get tired faster than before.

2 I get tired of almost everything I do.

3 I can't do anything because I'm tired.

18 .

0 My appetite is not worse than usual.

1 My appetite is worse than before.

2 My appetite is much worse now.

3 I have no appetite at all.

19 .

0 I have not lost any weight lately, or the weight loss has been negligible.

1 Lately I have lost more than 2 kg.

2 I have lost more than 5 kg.

3 I have lost more than 7 cr.

I intentionally try to lose weight and eat less (mark with a cross). YES_________ NO_________

20 .

0 I am no more worried about my health than usual.

1 I am concerned about my physical health problems such as pain, indigestion, constipation, etc.

2 I am very concerned about my physical condition and it is difficult for me to think about anything else.

3 I'm so worried about my physical condition that I can't think of anything else.

21 .

0 I haven't noticed a change in my interest in sex lately.

1 I am less interested in sex problems than before.

2 Now I am much less interested in sexual problems than before.

 3 I have lost all sexual interest.

Data processing and interpretation

When interpreting the data, the total score for all categories is taken into account.

• 0-9 - no depressive symptoms
• 10-15 - mild depression (sub-depression)
• 16-19 - moderate depression
• 20-29 - severe depression (moderate)
• 30-63 - severe depression

A timely visit to the doctor will help to identify the presence of pathology, determine the severity and nature of the disease, prescribe the appropriate therapeutic or drug treatment.

Treatment

An important condition for the success of psychotherapeutic assistance is the active a wish the patient to overcome the disease.

Therapeutic treatment includes:

• wellness massage;
• long walks in the fresh air;
• sports;
• occupational therapy and art therapy (painting, embroidery, sculpture, wood burning and much more);
• relaxation sessions, breathing practices, yoga.

The specifics of the method, how to treat and how to treat, is determined strictly with the prescription and under the supervision of an experienced psychotherapist.

With the onset of an imminent improvement in the condition, it is impossible on one's own stop taking medications and refuse to consult a specialist. Such actions will lead to further relapses and exacerbation of the disease.

What is used:

1. eliminate the biochemical cause of the disease. They help to stabilize mood, get rid of apathy and psychomotor retardation, increase vitality.
2. struggle with symptoms of depression: impaired appetite and sleep, phobias, anxiety. They act gradually, can be addictive, there is a risk of overdose.
3. stabilize the activity of the brain, increase the emotional state and physical activity of a person.
4. have a slowing effect on the central nervous system, inhibiting the transmission of brain impulses. It is used in cases of aggressive behavior of the patient, attempts to injure himself, hallucinations, manifestations of suicidal tendencies.

The severity of symptoms of major depressive disorder is determined by the severity of the disease, character traits and behavior of the patient.

Given his condition, the doctor prescribes an individual program of treatment and rehabilitation, followed by observation until complete recovery.

With this test, you will be able to find out with a 100% guarantee whether you have depression. If it turns out that it does not exist, read the article at least in order to know how to convincingly simulate this ailment in which case.

Andrey Nevtonov

Attention. If you came here just for the test, then you will find it below. But first, let's talk a little about what depression is.

At all times, there have been diseases with beautiful names, which were not only prestigious to get sick - rather, it was fashionable to say that you have them, or to replace them with real ailments. It was worth saying “monstrous influenza” instead of “terrible snot” - and those around you immediately imbued with respect for you and your fine organization.

Today, it has become such a disease that everyone talks about, often not understanding the original meaning of the name. It is customary to write off everything on it: impotence, wrecked jobs and unwillingness to go to the evening of the reunion of graduates. At the same time, few people know that depression is a very specific ailment caused by such complex biochemical changes in the nervous system that an ordinary person cannot cause them even for money. It is actually quite difficult to catch depression, and what is considered to be it is, as a rule, a depressive personality accentuation, a bad mood, or even ordinary hatred of people.

Do you want to know the whole truth about whether you have depression? You have two scenarios to choose from: either you go to a psychoanalyst, and he gives you a clinical test that diagnoses depression with an absolute guarantee; or you pass exactly the same clinical test that we took as a keepsake when we ourselves went to be tested.

Yes, and keep in mind: the causes of depression are usually very specific - prolonged mental stress, overwork, chronic brain injury, severe and prolonged diseases of internal organs, surgical operations, lack of blood supply to the brain and congenital neurochemical disorders. If you don’t have and never had any of the above, it means that you probably don’t need any tests here. Just stop feigning depression and it will pass!

According to the international classification of diseases "ICD-10", depression is not even one disease, but seven different ones. In the sense that it is divided into groups.

Due to the occurrence

Neurotic D., due to internal conflict. Reactive D., which is a reaction to mental trauma. Endogenous D., which is generally easy to treat, since it has neurochemical causes.

By the nature of the flow

Classic D. Hidden D.

By severity

Small D. Large D.

Of course, these types can be combined. For example, major depression can be both classic and reactive. But that's not all. For MAXIM readers only! Having caught a hidden depression, you get two more varieties of the disease as a gift!

Jokes aside. Latent depression can be somatized (this is when, in addition to a bad mood, you are tormented by some kind of bodily ailment like stomach disease or dystonia) or masked. In this case, you will have all the symptoms of another disease - for example, appendicitis. However, an autopsy will show you didn't have it.

Under what ailments does depression like to disguise itself?

1. Abdominal syndrome

Pain, heaviness, distension, cold or heat in the abdomen, nausea, loss of appetite. Of course, all the fault and the truth may be an expired mold on the cheese. However, depression often uses these symptoms to set doctors on the wrong track. The condition of the stomach worsens in the morning, and by the second half of the day you already start picking the contents of the plate with a sad look, feeling relieved. Patients are admitted to hospitals with suspected acute appendicitis and cholecystitis, but the intervention of surgeons does not bring relief.

2. Headache

To say where exactly it hurts, a person cannot. More often the pain appears to him in the form of iron hoops squeezing the skull, or something that crawls inside the head. The condition, as in the case of the abdomen, worsens in the morning, and by the evening passes. Such patients are diagnosed with "migraine" or "vegetovascular dystonia", and then they drink useless painkillers for years.

3. Facial pain

Cunning depression mimics trigeminal neuralgia (it runs from the ear to the eyebrow and lower jaw) and inflammation of the temporomandibular joint. Desperate patients ask dentists to extract perfectly healthy teeth, which sometimes, by the way, brings temporary relief. The mask of depression also causes a surprisingly vivid sensation of roughness and hairiness of the tongue.

4. Cardialgia

Imitation of interruptions in the work of the heart, burning or cold behind the sternum. The results of the cardiogram do not correspond to the patient's complaints, but out of pity, the doctors prescribe heart medications for him. They reduce pain, but do not remove it completely.

5. Arthralgia

You think that you have sciatica, joint diseases and neuralgia. But the doctors, after looking at your x-ray, twist their fingers to the temple. At the same time, your joints hurt not where they should, but a few centimeters higher.

6. Insomnia

Depression without sleep disorders is like Fedor Konyukhov without legs. Moreover, sometimes insomnia may be the only symptom of masked depression. In this case, you will wake up unrested, have breakfast with an aversion to food, and then come to work already tired and immediately fall for a cigarette or a cup of coffee. Peaks of activity are possible, but usually they occur at 10-12 in the morning, and you are still sleeping at that time, because in the evening, despite being tired, you could not fall asleep and tossed and turned all night. And so every day.

7. Phobias

You understand that there are no sharks in the soup, and aliens, for the most part, do not want to kill you. But this does not help to overcome baseless fear. However, exotic phobias of depression are rare. More often it causes fear of death from cessation of breathing, panic attacks. The phobia usually gets worse at night and in the morning.

8. Sexual disorders

Erectile dysfunction? Accelerated or, conversely, delayed ejaculation? Do not rush to bequeath your penis to science. Maybe it's the depression again. By the way, the famous "demon in the ribs" (and in scientific terms, the desire for ever stronger sexual stimuli) is also a sign of depression, and usually the earliest.

9. Drug addiction and alcoholism

Indulgence in bad habits brings short-term relief. Hangovers or withdrawals are accompanied by terribly violent symptoms taken from the previous eight points.

Clinical Test for Depression

Instruction

You have 44 groups of statements in front of you. In each of them, choose one answer that best describes how you feel. Remember, your task is not to win, but to find out the truth. Answer sincerely. To make it easier for you to do this, we didn’t even obsessively “make fun” of the answers, as we usually do.

Test

Depression

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How to deal with depression

This part will be of interest primarily to people who have scored serious amounts in the test. If, according to the results, you are not depressed, you can read this block with detached gloating. grove of palm trees. It's easier to see a doctor, because depression is curable. In fact, it is a failure in metabolism. Doctors will treat you not only with pills, but also with heart-to-heart conversations (the most unpleasant part). Without the simultaneous elimination of physiological and psychological factors, a person cannot be cured.

Your best friend for the next six months should be a psychotherapist. Experienced mental trauma, mental stress, quarrels with others and internal conflicts, severe worries about one's own health - all this can underlie depression. Treatment with only powerful pills (without psychotherapy), of course, helps, but after the drug is discontinued, the disease may visit you again.

What will they give you

Sometimes especially skilled psychotherapists bring their unfortunate patients out of depression without medication at all. Alas, in some cases, drugs are indispensable: a neglected disease destroys the brain so much that the balance of neurotransmitters does not restore itself.

Antidepressants

The basis of any course of treatment. Side effects and doses may vary, but the purpose of the drugs is the same - to eliminate the biochemical basis of depression.

Vitamins and biostimulants

And these useful pills will help you to establish the supply of brain cells with energy and other little things useful in your work. Actually, these are not some secret substances, but the same vitamins that healthy people drink to increase stress resistance and immunity.

tranquilizers

By themselves, these potent drugs do not cure depression. But they struggle with its symptoms (and sometimes even succeed in this): longing, fear, bodily manifestations. Antidepressants do not give an immediate effect, therefore, to make it more fun for you to wait for it, the doctor will probably prescribe “trunks” for you.

Antipsychotics

In fact, these are ordinary sedatives, but they are so strong that they can drive even an elephant into a calm state, which has just lost all relatives, both tusks and a share in the business. Antipsychotics reduce arousal and eliminate fears, bring the patient out of a mental impasse and reduce the bodily manifestations of masked depression.

However, the matter may not reach neuroleptics. Doctors usually start the course with a cocktail of antidepressants and biostimulants. And only if it did not work - add two other components.

Why it might not help

Pills are almost useless unless the therapist has addressed the personal causes of depression—for example, forced you to quit.

You have untreated thyroid disease, diabetes, hypertension, and other conditions that cause depression.

You interrupted the course too soon, delighted with the improvement. If you stop taking antidepressants before a stable effect appears, depression will develop again.

Sometimes the disease returns a year or two after the completion of the course, because you stopped seeing a doctor and taking preventive antidepressants. And they give you another test...

Sheehan Anxiety Scale

If the first test is negative, move on to the second. The Sheehan test will help you find out if you even have anxiety, a condition that precedes depression. If here you do not score enough points, then, alas, you are a mentally healthy person who now only needs to come up with new excuses for his impotence and innate laziness.

July 02, 2014

Symptoms of depression

Depression is not just a bad mood. Depression is a serious illness that can and should be treated.

How to distinguish depression from the usual bad mood? The main symptoms of depression are:

• unwillingness to move, to do something;
• melancholy, despair, causeless anxiety and irritability;
• loss of interest in favorite activities, communication and sexual life;
• feelings of guilt and inadequacy;
• a gloomy view of the future;
• increased attention to one's health, suspiciousness;
• sometimes even thoughts of death and even suicide.

If within about two weeks you can not recover, then you have depression.

A depressed mental state lowers immunity, therefore, during depression, as a rule, chronic diseases become aggravated.

Causes of depression

Until now, experts are not unanimous in their opinion - why there is a depressive state, which is the cause of depression.

Some experts believe that the main causes of depression are external causes: stress, family and domestic troubles.

The other part believes that the main reason is the inability of a person to respond correctly to the situation, his internal complexes, the inability to adapt.

But most experts believe that the main causes are stress and prolonged physical and nervous stress.

Prevention of depression

The best prevention of depression is a healthy lifestyle, positive attitudes.

Secondly, in order to avoid depression, you need to learn how to relax, rest, not get hung up on one problem, but switch from one problem to another.

Thirdly, with regard to nutrition, there is no special diet for the prevention of depression - the main thing is that the diet is balanced and varied.

At the stage of business growth, an entrepreneur may become depressed and his activities can lead the organization to a crisis:

Take the depression test

Forewarned is forearmed. To find out if you tend to be at the mercy of depression, take this test.