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Can depression cause slow processing speed?
I know it can cause memory loss and loss of concentration/focus.
How can I improve all these as these are extremely horrid?
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The simple answer is yes. Having suffered from depression myself I know how horrid this illness can be on someone. Depression is the cause for many different feelings you may have. One of which that is most affected is perception. When depressed we tend to see things differently then they may be and is something you need to be aware of.
To improve means to get treatment for your depression. Simple or clinical depression, which is what most of us who suffer from depression are diagnosed with, is not a mental illness. It is more of a medical condition as it is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
The best doctor to treat you for this illness is not your family doctor. Your family doctor can screen you and make an initial diagnoses and may even recommend some medication. The doctor best able to treat you is a Board Certified Psychiatrist, who is a MD who has had a Fellowship in psychiatry and past the testing to be certified as a psychiatrist.
Certain types of antidepressants have a zombie like side effect. Those drugs are for treating other types of depression. The drugs used for clinical depression take several weeks to build up in your system as they do the veil of depression will lift it will be a very natural type effect.
You will probably be sent for talk therapy with a psychologist. I found this most beneficial as it is designed to get at the cause of the depression. something like a smell or a taste or something you saw may have triggered a memory. For me it was a number of events that happened at one time that triggered something and the psychologist I worked with saw something else something I didn't even know I was holding back. Eventually she got it out of me and then we dealt with it.
TO day I am a much happier person than I have been for much of my adult life. It took those number of events to send me for help making me realize I was hurting. I had been depressed for so long I thought I was normal.
My suggestion is to get properly diagnosed and then seek treatment. If medication is offered accepted and take it as instructed. You will not need to take it for life only for a year maybe two.
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