What do you think causes serious depression in so many heart attack victims,heart attack, surgery or meds.?

Answer 1

i personally think alot of heart attack victims suffer from depression because of several factors, 1. the new medications they may be on 2. news of them having or possibly have cornary heart disease and a limited time to live 3. surgery itself can cause depression, its called post operative depression.
hope that was of some help

Answer 2

I would have to guess the thought of dying itself would be depressing. But in my opinion, the recovery from the heart attack and any subsequent surgeries would cause a person to be inactive for a period of time. Isolation and inactivity often cause depression- you were active and productive prior to surgery, able to get around and do whatever you wanted. Post-surgery you may be on bedrest for a period of time, you have to change your diet and other aspects of your life abruptly. Being isolated to your house and relying on others to care for you, having to slowly progress to get out of bed, much less leave the house and run a marathon can make one depressed. With all the time on your hands- you have nothing to do but think- about death, what mistakes you made in your life, how helpless you are, etc. Losing your independence is very depressing, debilitation (even if you know you are getting it back after recovery)- which is why depression is very high in the elderly population. Just my opinion.

Answer 3

For one thing, being confronted with your own mortality is never a very pleasant thing. Everyone likes to think they'll live forever.
Apart from that, surgery, hospitals and all the tests can be really, really severely depressing. I remember when I went in for surgery a few years back I felt so bad. They'd done a dozen tests on me prior to the operation and it's just horrible to have to come back to the hospital time and again to undergo procedure after procedure.
I swear at one point I felt so bad I'd rather just let whatever was wrong with me happen than go back to face more tests. You'd think our modern medicine is quite advanced, but really if you have to have a triple bypass, they have to completely open up your chest. You'll be sore for months on end while you're recovering.
And finally of course there's the whole helplessness of the situation to take into consideration. You're in that situation and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. And then you start to ponder your life and how it could've come to this... nasty really.
Does that help? :)

Answer 4

Going from a healthy person to someone that has a life threatening condition is very depressing. Usually the lifestyle must change as well. Hopefully they come out of the depression and vow to be good to their body and eat right and exercise. I hope they are getting support from a group of fellow heart a ttack victims.

Answer 5

I had one approximately 3 years in the past now and aside from the trials that i'm able to in basic terms describe as somebody sitting on your chest,i had no concept it became a coronary heart assault. placed ninety 9% of it right down to smoking,gave up that day and by no ability had one considering. 5 pills an afternoon now for something of my days.