49th World summit on Neurology, Psychiatry & Mental Health
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Accepted Abstracts

Connecting Dots between the Depression and its Relationship with Aggression

Siddhant Bhadade*
Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, India.

Citation: Bhadade S (2024) Connecting Dots between the Depression and its Relationship with Aggression. SciTech Neuro-Mental Health 2024.

Received: January 28, 2024         Accepted: January 31, 2024         Published: January 31, 2024

Abstract

Depression has been a very common word in the mouths of people in the last few years, as people have become very “aware” of mental problems and health. Depression is a mental state characterized by very low self-esteem and a loss of interest in daily life and activities. Patients are often very hopeless. There may be various reasons and outcomes for this depression. The most frequent outcomes of this depression are sleep disturbances and insomnia. One’s family history, life events, emotional or psychological trauma, isolation, lack of support, or, overall, we may say, helplessness—this helplessness soon converts into hopelessness or worthlessness, which largely contribute to causing depression. Helplessness disturbs the patient’s peace of mind and also influences the patient’s mind in a negative way, destroying and scarring one’s self-confidence. It is very common that the whole outcome of this process is mainly violence and aggression caused by a severe lack of confidence and helplessness. Angry outbursts, or as we may call them, aggression, are absolutely a common outcome of depression. As depression causes insomnia, which leads to sleep deprivation, the frustration in the patient’s life will make its way out as aggression. So, there may be a very remarkable connection between depression and aggression. Again, the relationship between depression and aggression can be vice versa, as it is observed that patients with violent or aggressive past histories have an outcome in the form of depressive symptoms. The violent experience can be anything from a childhood bullying experience to any traumatic experience of sexual violence, known or unknown. There may be two ways in which the management of such cases can be Pharmacological or Non-pharmacological. •Pharmacological, such as antidepressants are prescribed, and  Non-pharmacological, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy are suggested for such patients.