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Process - Physician - Fraser Health Authority

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WHAT CAUSES DEPRESSION?People become depressed for a wide variety of reasons.Research has identified a number of factors associatedwith causing and continuing the depressed state. Thediagram below shows the five major factors: situation;thoughts; emotion; physiology; and action. Each ofthese areas of your life can play a role in the developmentof depression, and depression itself can havean impact on all of them. On the following pages weconsider each of these factors in more detail.ACTION• social withdrawal• reduced activitylevel• poor self-carePHYSIOLOGY• altered sleep• low energy• changes in brainchemistrySITUATION• loss• isolation• conflict• stressEMOTION• discouragement• sadness• despair• numbness• anxietyTHOUGHTS• negative thinkinghabits• harsh self-criticism• unfair & unrealisticSELF-CARE DEPRESSION PROGRAM6 ANTIDEPRESSANT SKILLS WORKBOOK

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