Contents:
- Medical Video: 8 Signs You're Suffering from Depression Without Knowing It
- What is morning depression?
- Why is depression so severe in the morning?
- How to detect symptoms of depression in the morning
- What can be done to overcome morning depression?
Medical Video: 8 Signs You're Suffering from Depression Without Knowing It
Basically, depression is an emotional disorder or mood that happens continuously. As a result, you have difficulty undergoing daily activities. The emergence of depression is strongly influenced by environmental factors such as stress and biological factors, namely the balance of brain chemicals that reduce the brain's ability to maintainmoodstay stable. Although stress has an important role, there are certain conditions that cause depression to come on its own in the morning. This condition is called morning depression, in English that ismorning depression.
What is morning depression?
Morning depression is a symptom experienced by someone, especially patients with clinical depression, where moods become very bad in the morning.
Depressive symptoms vary. Including feeling very sad, frustrated, angry, until feeling powerless or exhausted. With the worst conditions in the morning, then mood someone will improve on their own as time goes by day and night.
Morning depression is considered the initial symptom of clinical depression. Therefore it is also known as a symptom of variation mood diurnal. This means symptoms of depression or mood when the morning is affected by someone's circadian rhythm. Circadian rhythm itself is a biological process that regulates the work schedule of various functions of the human body. Starting from body temperature, blood pressure, and hormone production for a full day.
Why is depression so severe in the morning?
Circadian rhythm disorders are thought to be one of the causes of morning depression. This is evidenced in a study that shows people who experience depression in the morning tend to experience changes in circadian rhythms due to changes in sleep hours.
Basically, a normal human biological clock is awake in the morning and falls asleep at night. This is important to facilitate metabolism, regulate energy, concentrate, maintain balance mood, and maintain overall body health.
Normal circadian rhythms for the body are also needed for the production of certain hormones that are in accordance with their needs. For example the hormone cortisol is produced more in the morning so that the body is more energized and the mind is more alert. While the hormone melatonin is produced when it gets dark. This is because melatonin helps the body to rest by sleeping.
Impaired circadian rhythms or changes in sleep patterns cause the body to produce hormones at the wrong time and this can cause adverse effects on one's body and mind. The production of the hormone melatonin at the wrong time, for example, can disrupt the energy balance because a person becomes more easily drowsy and easily fatigued.
How to detect symptoms of depression in the morning
Morning depression only has an effect or effect in the morning. Depression symptoms experienced tend to improve over time. Here are some symptoms that can be recognized if you experience morning depression, including:
- Having fatigue since first waking up.
- Difficulty doing easy work like taking a shower and making breakfast.
- Experiencing obstacles to activity and thinking.
- Difficult to concentrate.
- Very irritable and frustrated.
- Experiencing changes mood drastic.
- Loss of desire to do morning activities that are usually preferred.
- Feeling empty or hopeless.
- Changes to the morning routine.
- Changes in the morning diet such as eating more or less.
- Feelings of depression when the morning is very easy to lose.
What can be done to overcome morning depression?
Unlike depressive symptoms in general, treatment with the use of drugs is less effective for treating symptoms of depression in the morning. However, some therapies such as counseling and light therapy tend to be more effective in dealing with depressive symptoms in the morning. The way is to focus on problems or triggers of depression as well as causes of circadian rhythm disorders.
Electric therapy or Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) it has also been shown to be effective in rebalancing the chemical composition of the brain that causes depression.
Apart from the methods of therapy and treatment, here are some lifestyle changes that can be done to overcome depression in the morning.
- Set hours of sleep and wake up at the same time every day.
- Maintain eating patterns at regular times.
- Reduce naps too long.
- Apply regular exercise. However, avoid sports distance and sleeping hours that are too close, for example less than four hours.
- Create a bedroom atmosphere that makes you easier to sleep like dark, calm, and quite cool.
- Avoid consuming substances that can interfere with sleep quality such as cigarettes, alcohol, and caffeine.
