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Male DepressionThe male patient who has depression would experience and feel a sudden, abrupt with a shaking chill, sharp pain in his feelings and emotions on the onset.
Along with this are the appearance of depression symptoms such as suicide tendencies and job stress. All these depression symptoms are usually present as an effect of the traumatic events that took place.
Male depression presents a type of slow or chronic emotional and psychological pain. This pain largely results from over-stimulation of negative thoughts in the mind.
The mind may be stimulated by negative thoughts like suicide tendencies and job stress that are produced by unfortunate incidents in life. The sense organs for emotional and psychological pain are the naked nerve endings found in almost every tissue of the brain. Emotional and psychological pain has been classified into two major types: fast pain and slow pain.
Fast pain is felt within about 0.1 second after a pain stimulus is applied, whereas slow pain begins only after 1 second or more and then increases slowly over many seconds and sometimes even minutes.
The diagnosis and treatment of depression depend heavily on understanding the basic physiologic and behavioural principles. Male depression results from traumatic experiences, whereas others result from extreme stress, guilt, anxiety or worry. The treatment is often entirely different for male depression, so it is no longer satisfactory simply to make a diagnosis of insufficiency.
Current treatments for male depression – “cut, burn, poison” – are recognized as crude and painful. Promising new methods focus on delivering anti- depressant drugs (via monoclonal antibodies that respond to one type of protein) and on increasing the immune system’s ability to fend off stress. The basic problem is to make available drugs (natural products or synthetics) that kill the negative thoughts effectively but are not excessively toxic to normal cells.
Governments and medical experts have already made programs and efforts in the local and national levels in order to help men recover from depression.
These programs call for help from all other organizations – public and private – to help in the advocacy towards maintaining a healthy outlook in life. Strategies in maintaining a healthy outlook in life includes programs especially those which teaches and encourages men to regularly feed their minds with positive thoughts only. These are very effective in making the males aware of the negative consequences of depression or having too little optimism in the process of maintaining and sustaining his life.
After the operations, the nurses take care of the following and any operations and/or treatment for male depression. As well as supporting the patients and his/her family through the recovery and treatment, the nurses can provide the patient and his/her caregivers with clear written and verbal information; and can also examine the patient and arrange any tests that might be needed. It is also important to remember that denial is a common and important coping strategy for many males with depression. This is just a normal psychological process and what the nurse can do is to provide support. |
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