Depression

Depression is a mental disorder characterized by a depressed, low mood. During it, thinking slows down, movements slow down, and internal organ function is disrupted. As depression deepens, the patient becomes increasingly anxious, hopeless, unable to find a place or completely freezes, stops speaking, and does not react to the environment. There is a lack of desire to do anything, to live. A person engulfed in severe depression feels not only spiritual but also physical pain: their heart aches, their chest feels tight.

Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology