"I'm sure to be crazy again. I feel that we can not face another of those terrible moments. And this time does not heal. I begin to hear voices, and I can not concentrate. So I'm doing what seems the best thing to do. You gave me the greatest happiness possible. Have you been in every way all that anyone could ever be. I do not think two people could have been happier when she got up to this terrible disease. I can no longer fight. I know that I'm ruining my life, that without me you could go forward. And you do not know. See I can not even write this properly. I can not read. What I want to tell you is that I have all the happiness of my life to you. Have you been completely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say - everyone knows it. If anyone would have been able to save you. Everything is gone from me except the certainty of your goodness. I can not continue to ruin your life. I do not think that two people may have been happier than it was us. V. " An Italian two considers depression as incurable breast cancer, that frightens only one in four women. Apparently it is a surprising finding, which comes from the first national survey on women and depression, brought on by the National Women's Health (wave) and built by Giuseppe Pellegrini, social researcher at the University of Padova, interviewing 1,016 women between 30 and 70.
Probably, however, the widespread approach to this disease, a disease that is in effect, still suffers from a range of prejudices and cultural conditioning. Reading the data collected by a given fact ONDa leaps to the eye and care: women who suffer from depression, than to believe their lives disrupted by the disease in seven cases out of ten feel shame or guilt. The women, who statistically depression are the most frequent victims, feel they find around them the same understanding that they would if they were suffering from breast cancer or any other disease. So, still feel judged, they feel shame and guilt. the result most dangerous of all is that they often decide not to tell anyone. In this regard, a more alarming is the fact that in 2010 a woman with depression in six does not ask for help. In so doing, it prevents itself to recover from an illness that can and should be treated.
shame, guilt, fear, feelings are more common in women with depression. Speaking of fear, it probably stems from the fact that women know the effects of depression, know that creeps into their lives, alienating: 65% of them have lived on their skin or view close on family or friends. But perhaps above all because they fear they have no confidence in treatment. In fact, the majority thinks that the therapy may contain in part the consequences of the disease, but not really solve the problem. Besides, even some recent study has raised doubts about it, such as that conducted by the University of Pennsylvania, which involved over 700 patients and has suggested that antidepressants are effective only in very severe cases, while mild cases are not decisive. In this regard, according to the school of thought prevalent in less severe depression, medication and psychotherapy are the same and in some cases, psychotherapy is more useful. Instead, in most cases of depression severe, antidepressants are a very good response, especially when combined with psychotherapy. The data show that 34% of patients treated with medication cures and 36% see half the amount of symptoms. If the drug is associated with psychotherapy, the percentage of patients that benefits from the treatment rises to as much as 80%. Unfortunately, this message is not perceived by women to the bottom, which shows a part of a rating against the use of psychotherapy (85%), but on the other a real confidence in the use of drugs. In fact, only one in two believes that drugs can make a difference, although in the medium-severe forms is essential. Who has tried them, however, shows to appreciate a little more.
The data that is more distressing is that only just over half of patients get to heal, and of these 60% received inadequate treatment or inadequate. The result of these inadequate responses is that 30% of patients with depression a month after withdrawal of treatment to seek treatment and only one out of three following the treatment and how it should be. In women, inter alia, for biological reasons there is an increased sensitivity to side effects of drugs, which also have a different effect from Depending on the time of life, such as during the childbearing or menopause. So many drop out before obtaining a result.
Depression is really cancer of the soul, an evil subtle but sharp, which prevents those affected to live life. Perhaps, the approach to surface treatments for this disease has contributed a lot to fuel fears, anxieties, shame or depression in those patients in their family. But depression is not shameful. E 'disease. And as such should be dealt with by the patient and the people he loves. Like any other illness. As a breast cancer. With fear but with courage, to heal quickly but also with due patience, with medication and psychotherapy. Unfortunately, the natural course of depression as any other disease that is cured is death, in this case the death caused by the same person, suicide. So it is important to recognize and be alert all the signs of depression in people we love. Do not forget: depression, if treated well and on time, now you can heal.
Dedicated to Virginia Woolf, and all women who have tried at least once in their lives the evil of life ...
"L a beauty the world has two edges, one of joy, the more anxiety, and cuts through the heart." Virginia Woolf
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