UC Berkeley Health & Wellness: Is Depression a Normal Part of Aging?

By | February 10, 2019

Released by UC Berkeley Health & Wellness Alerts ——-

Is Depression a Normal Part of Aging?
Do you toss and turn at night or wake up at 3 AM unable to get back
to sleep? Does sadness overwhelm you at times, leaving you
unable to enjoy the people and activities in your life?

When your emotions cloud your outlook, interfere with your
relationships or affect the way you sleep at night and function during the day, you may be suffering from depression or an anxiety disorder.

Physicians have achieved stunning success managing these
life-altering conditions, and their latest findings can be shared with you
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The 2019 Depression and Anxiety White Paper
Your Annual Guide to Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
You’re not the only one who feels sad or worried at times. It’s normal.
Life provides us with plenty of reasons to worry—about our families, our country, and our basic health and safety.

It’s perfectly natural for you to respond to the ups and downs we
all experience with elation or disappointment.

It’s normal and expected for you to feel grief at the loss of a loved one,
a job or a precious possession.

It’s common, and occasionally even helpful, for you to react with
anxiety to life’s stresses, challenges and dangers.

What’s NOT perfectly natural is when those feelings persist long
after the event or condition that triggered them.

What’s NOT normal and expected is when those feelings seem to
come at you from nowhere, appearing even in the absence of obvious
external triggers.  

What’s certainly NOT helpful is feeling the weight of your emotions so heavily that it interferes with sleep, prevents you from performing
daily activities or arouses concern in the people who care about you.

In its milder forms, depression or anxiety can make it difficult
to even get yourself out of bed each morning and to go through the
motions of your daily activities. Fatigue, inertia, feelings of sadness
and recurring fears can hover like a rain cloud over your life.

In their more severe forms, depression or an anxiety disorder can
immobilize you, sabotage your relationships, trigger feelings of
helplessness and self-destructive behavior, and perhaps even turn
your thoughts to suicide.
You DON’T have to suffer this way
With new medications that promise greater relief with fewer side
effects, as well as dramatic breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment,
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you. It’s like inviting a medical specialist into your own home.

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