Informative Speech Outline On Depression

What is depression?

Depression is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Major depressive disorder causes feelings of sadness, hopelessness and loss of interest inactivity’s once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s ability to function in every day life. Depression isn’t feeling sad or having low self esteem time to time, it’s experiencing these feelings intensely, for long periods of time(weeks, moths and even years) term feel. Depression can be triggered from stress, heartbreak, but can sometimes happens with no apparent reason. Depression is more then just a low mood, it’s a condition that affects your physical and mental health. Some people may experience depression, because of the a chemical imbalances in the brain or changes in the neural circuit. Depression also runs though DNA, meaning if one of your family members has depression, you are more likely to have the illness.

What are the signs and symptoms?

Also symptoms like low self astern, always talking negative about them self, feelings of worthless or guilt and having thoughts of death or suicide. Depression doesn’t just impact your mental health it also impacts your physical state. It can make a person experience trouble sleeping or sleeping too much, drastic changes in weigh( losing weigh or gaining weigh), increase purposeless physical activity, this can include pacing, fidgeting or slow movements and speech, experiencing extreme headaches and upset stomachs. All of these signs and symptoms must last at least two weeks for a diagnosis of