Within the different types of depressions More serious we can find melancholy or melancholic depression. According to some researchers, its origin appears to be biological. According to others, there appears to be a pattern of personality what's wrong with it higherpropensity to suffer from this type of depression.
This pattern of personality It usually includes people with great self-demands and very demanding with others, intolerant, orderly and systematic, perfectionists, and with little verbalization of their emotions.
Those who suffer from this type of depression usually present symptoms such as loss of pleasure from performing any type of activity, lack of response to what previously gave them pleasure or made them enjoy, alertness, weight loss, culpabilityexcessive, almost bordering on delirium and third-stage insomnia, that is, they wake up very early in the morning.
All symptoms usually improve throughout the day, which is in the evening when the patient feels better.
Regarding treatment, better results are obtained when different types are combined. Since it is a type of depression linked to a high
East Pharmacotherapy are combined with other types of therapies such as behavior modification therapy, Beck's cognitive therapy and Klerman's interpersonal psychotherapy, which appear to be as effective as medications antidepressants. Through these therapies, patients learn to face and modify their thoughts and to combat ideas of guilt, which improves their condition from cheer up. They also learn assertive techniques and social skills, as many of these patients often lack assertiveness altogether.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
