A melancholy mood; a feeling of hopelessness or an attitude of dejection. Depression varies from mild forms, which most people experience, to very severe clinical forms that require expert medical treatment.
Although depression can affect the motivation to exercise, it is generally agreed that aerobic activity can protect against and relieve depression.
Aerobic exercise sustained for at least 30 minutes, five times a week, can have remarkable anti-depressant effects.
The reason is unclear, but may be linked to the production of endorphins during exercise, or increased self-esteem and control.
1. Dark, spare withered-looking subjects ; disposition gen. mild and cheerful. 2. Attacks of depression. Loss of memory ; time passes slowly. 3. Great dryness of all mucous membranes (except female genitalia) with sense of constriction. 4. Abnormal appetite, craving for indigestible things ; potatoes disagree. 5. Inactivity of the rectum ; no desire and
1. Thin, single women with rheumatic tendencies and nervous, hysterical temperament. 2. Unstable mental state constantly relapsing into profound depression ; anxiety and fears of death, insanity, nature and extent of illness, etc. ; loquacity ; mental and physical restlessness ; mental state alternating with physical. 3. Utero-ovarian disorders, with various reflex disturbances incidental thereto
1. Acute mania ; patient, talkative, quarrelsome, gen. lascivious, exposes the person, etc. ; in the between state, suspicious depression ; fears solitude, poison, plots. Ailments from jealousy, unfortunate love, mental emotions. 2. Delirium during course of acute diseases ; temperature not markedly high ; restless, picks bedclothes, etc. ; beclouded senses ; staring eyes
1. Dark, phlegmatic subjects ; or women with red hair and freckled complexion, especially at climaxis ; also broken-down constitutions. 2. Extreme alternations, mind and sensorium, (a) Mental activity with almost prophetic perception ; ecstasy ; loquacity with rapid change of subject especially when delirious ; hurry and flurry ; delusion of voices, etc. (b)
1. Cachectic, anaemic subjects ; pale, earthy or yellowish. greasy-looking complexion ; children emaciated (especially about the neck) and old in appearance ; debility from loss of vital fluids. 2. Great depression ; lachrymose yet irritable especially at small, non-essential noises ; seems to desire but is markedly < consolation ; dislikes company, > alone
1. Hydrogenoid constitutions ; subjects with sycotic history. 2. Depression ; lively music saddens ; satiety of life ; irritability, especially when spoken to ; inability to think. 3. Mental traumatism ; mental effects of blow on the head, etc. 4. Catarrhs of mucous membranes with free discharge of greenish-yellow muco-pus ; sometimes bloody. 5.
1. Dark-complexioned, thin subjects of rigid fibre who readily catch cold ; naturally or prematurely old people with general weakness and emaciation ; sycotic, or mercurio-syphilitic states, or advanced cases of phthisis. 2. Depression and irritability with vindictiveness ; patient excitable ; anxious about his disease or past troubles. 3. Ulcerations, fissures, condylomata, warts, etc.,
1. Sallow-complexioned subjects ; lax fibre ; “bilious” temperament. Children. 2. Depression about his disease, etc. ; thinks he will die. 3. Alternating complaints ; e.g. winter headache alt. summer diarrhoea. 4. Difficult dentition ; moaning and grinding of teeth at night ; intense desire to press gums together (Phytolacca) ; head hot and rolling
1. Psoric subjects ; coarse, dry or greasy skin, nervous, restless temperament ; pale, delicate, sickly children. 2. Great mental depression ; anxiety with evil forebodings ; fears will die ; religious melancholy ; frightful dreams ; children good all day, cry all night. 3. In chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to relieve
1. Pale, anaemic subjects who suffer from dyspnoea and depression ; feel like weeping all the time but weeping <. Children with worm troubles. 2. Great nervous and muscular prostration ; so weak she drops into a chair ; weakness (emptiness) is especially referred to the chest (Argentum metallicum) < using the voice ; often