Proved depression useful!

A growing number of scientists support the view that depression is no accident "so deeply sewn into the human brain" - it S THE, in fact, health and defense mechanism as well as acquired immunity, makes a person stronger.

Researchers at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York concluded that depression protects the body from the effects of stress. Laboratory experiments conducted by scientists have shown that stress is a kind of allergen, and some symptoms of depression (such as lack of energy and loss of appetite), similar to the body's response to physical illness. Scientists are convinced that forcing a person experiences depression, the body thus protects it from the effects of stress.

Support colleagues and the staff of US universities of Arizona and Emory (GA). Psychiatrists believe that depression has emerged as the body's response to periodic attacks by various viruses and infections. At the same time, in their opinion, depression itself contributes to a more rapid recovery in various infectious diseases, including influenza. "What to do if you get sick, for example, the flu? Do not leave the house, to rest more and move less, "- say researchers. When a person "covers" depression, he begins to follow these rules automatically - does not want to see anyone, becomes listless, loses appetite. Experts emphasize that the fight against infectious disease such behavior is very useful: the body directs all its resources in the external activity, and the confrontation of the disease.

Another positive feature is that depression is that it paradoxically allows a person to better adapt to life. Back in 2002, researchers at Duke University found that women who have had depression, higher life expectancy. Recent scientific research in this area have allowed scientists to suggest that depression improves mental abilities. A study of patients with depression in the tomograph, found that parts of the brain are responsible for concentration and analytical thinking, not oppressed, but on the contrary - are activated. Therefore, people in depression, fixated on one issue, with time required to find the best way out of it.

According to psychiatrist Paul Kidwell from Cardiff University, depression "dissolves optimistic gloss" - the participants of the experiments that have suffered this illness became more cautious, to realistically assess the situation, and to better analyze the situation and predict its development.

  "I think people who have overcome depression and become stronger. It can be a catalyst for survival: in fact you looked into the abyss and saw abyss, "- says Marjorie Wallace, founder and head of the organization SANE, in the past she had suffered from depression.

However, scientists still caution that not all can feel positive effects of depression. Some people improve after re-depressed. Experts are unanimous only in that the main thing an aid recovery - support of family and friends.

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