Depression and Diabetes

What is depression?

Major depression, depression is a serious mental illness. Depression interferes with daily life and routine, and reduce the quality of your life. About 6.7% of U.S. adults aged 18 depression.1

Signs and symptoms of depression

Persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety or emptiness
Despair
Feel guilt, worthlessness or helplessness
He felt uncomfortable or uneasy
A pleasant activities or hobbies and interests, including sexual loss
Tired all the time
The lack of attention, memory details or decision
Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep state, a condition known as insomnia or sleep time
Overeating or loss of appetite
Thoughts of death and suicide or attempted suicide
Persistent pain, headaches, cramps or mitigation and treatment of digestive problems.

Depression and diabetes is the type of contact?

Research shows that may be associated with depression and diabetes, but scientists do not know yet whether depression increases the risk of diabetes or depression diabetes increases risk. The current study shows, these two situations are possible.
May increase risk of depression, diabetes can worsen depression symptoms. Manage daily pressure of diabetes and diabetes in the brain may contribute to dep ression.2, diabetes is twice that of the average person in the United States, may have depression.4
At the same time, some of the symptoms of depression can reduce the overall physical and mental health, not only increases the risk of diabetes, but diabetes symptoms worsen. For example, overeating can lead to weight gain, diabetes, a major risk factor. Feelings of fatigue or lack of value, you can ignore a special diet or drug treatment programs need to control your diabetes, your symptoms worsen diabetes. Studies have shown that people with diabetes and depression than any other person with diabetes alone.4, more severe symptoms of diabetes

How to treat depression diabetes?
Health care providers in diagnosing and treating depression. The treatment of depression, and may help control diabetes and improve your overall health. Scientists said that the treatment of depression, diabetes and depression can increase levels of mood, increases blood glucose control.5 depression recovery will take some time, but the treatment is effective.
Currently, the most common method of treating depression comprising:
A type of psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or talk therapy, can help people to change their negative ways of thinking and behavior can lead to their own depression
Selective 5 - serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), which is an antidepressant drugs, including but not citalopram (Celexa), sertraline (Zoloft), fluoxetine (Prozac)
5 - serotonin and norepinephrine (SNRIs), which is a similar SSRI antidepressants, including venlafaxine (Effexor), duloxetine (Cymbalta).
Some antidepressants can cause weight gain side effects, and if you have diabetes, it may be the best treatment for depression. These measures include:
Tricyclic
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Paroxetine (Paxil), SSRI6
Mirtazapine (Remeron)