Highly functional depression (VFD) is not among the serious psychiatric pathologies. However, these conditions can be attributed to conditionally borderline violations. Without treatment and correction, the disorder can lead to the development of clinical depression, which can occur in an extremely severe form, and VFD can cause the formation of a sluggish / background depression.
Literally not a single person is immune from the development of the WFD. One of the dangers of this disorder is that it can begin to develop slowly in early childhood, gradually progressing, then appear and poison a person’s life for a year and a half or two years, then subside and seem to pass by itself, although this is not at all. If a person with signs of highly functional depression ignores his condition, tries to cope with it on his own, this can lead to complete “burnout” and to the development of more severe pathologies.
Features of VFD
The problem with CFD is that this disorder is very difficult to diagnose. Many people have been living in a state of aggravated depression for years without turning to specialists for help. In addition, doctors are of the opinion that the difficulty in making a diagnosis lies in the fact that, according to the symptoms, highly functional depression can be masked by other disorders or by some personality characteristics. For example, VFD is often confused with burnout, mental burnout, or even masked depression.
One of the differences from other types of depression for VFD is that the disorder can be transmitted at the gene level. If a person among his relatives - not necessarily parents or older sisters / brothers - had individuals who were once diagnosed with this or who suffered from BAD (bipolar affective disorder), then the risk of developing highly functional depression reaches almost one hundred percent.
Among the features of this violation, it is also customary to attribute the fact that VFD is not always accompanied by typical signs of depression. Or they are not so pronounced as to cause specific concern in a person or his environment. However, VFD is also typically characterized by low mood, gloom, a concentration on negative, a rejection of pleasures, a feeling of apathy and a complete loss of strength, and so on.
Experts note that people with VFD are more likely than others to be involved in various types of creativity. Music, drawing or writing are given to them at times easier. In addition, according to research it was found that people with a tendency to highly functional depression have a high level of intelligence. But against this background, there is another strange feature of this violation: as a rule, people with VFD do not get pleasure, do not feel satisfaction from the creative process or from scientific research. All that they do is for them dullness and routine. Moreover, a person with VFD is unlikely to go beyond his usual existence.
Such people are not prone to risk, to change, to spontaneity and to the exit from their personal comfort zone. Any classes, household chores are perceived by them exclusively as a duty, as something compelled. Usually a person with highly functional depression has neither a hobby nor additional hobbies.