If you start a topic on the web: What's your biggest annoyance? It is almost certain that the highest praise answer must be "poor".
I dare not change jobs easily, do not dare to entertain, travel, fear bank interest rate increases, worry about illness, unemployment, and no time to enjoy life.
This is a true portrayal of contemporary young people.
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Work, buy a house, buy a car, get married... In the fast-paced society, being pressed by these mountains, some people are at ease, some people are anxious, and some people are depressed.
How to relieve worries? Only sudden wealth.
It seems that as long as you have money, you can be happy and happy, and go to the peak of life.
However, whenever there is news of celebrities and rich people suffering from depression, there are always some voices on the Internet:
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As a result, statements such as "having money and being depressed is a pretense" have appeared frequently.
High income can indeed solve most of the world's troubles, but a certain Internet founder big guy still said: "I have everything, but I am very painful."
So, if you have a car and a house, and earn 50,000 a month, why are you still depressed?
Depression makes people lose their happiness, and celebrities, rich people and poor people will get it
Depression is a type of mood disorder that deprives people of their ability to be happy, exhibit abnormal emotional symptoms, and may also have abnormalities in thinking and behavior.
It is a mental and psychological disease caused by neurotransmitter disorders in the brain, and the disease, naturally, is possible for people of any class, can you say that a person who is rich enough will not catch a cold?
Since it is a disease, there must be a cause. Many people always think that depression is caused by personal reasons, not strong enough, not busy enough, not stressed enough, not rich enough, or simply "thinking too much".
In fact, the causes of depression are very complex. At present, studies have found that genetics, biochemical changes in the human body, neurophysiology, neuroendocrine and psychological factors are inseparable, and even social, economic and cultural factors play a role in it [1].
Whether you have money or not is never the determining factor of depression.
Depression is increasing and has become a "disease of the times"
It is expected that by 2020, depression will become one of the most popular diseases in the world, almost becoming a "disease of the times" today. In China, people also truly feel that the depressed people around them are mushrooming. People can't help but wonder why depression, which was rarely heard about more than a decade ago, suddenly became entangled in Chinese?
I don't know if you have ever thought about it, our father's generation, why not so much depression?
The generation of the father's generation is in the era of planned economy, which is accompanied by a relatively stable life and traditional values, and the income gap between everyone is not large.
After the reform and opening up, the planned economy has changed to a market economic model. The rule of survival of the fittest in the market has created a certain gap between the rich and the poor, and as the gap between the rich and the poor has widened, some Chinese people have begun to have a group psychological imbalance [2].
The fierce social competition is also related to the rising incidence of depression.
With the rapid development of the economy, the pressure on people's life and work is getting greater and greater, the pace of life is getting faster and faster, and the competition that penetrates into all areas of social life is becoming more and more intense.
These are all in a state of tension for a long time, and over time, they may lead to emotional distress and cause various physical and mental diseases, of which depression is a common mental illness [2].
Depression in China is nearly 90 million people, and the overall recognition rate is less than 20%
An article published in the authoritative journal The Lancet in 2009 pointed out that the prevalence of depression in China is 6.1%, close to 90 million people, which is twice the global incidence of depression, and the incidence is increasing year by year.
6 out of 100 people suffer from depression. But less than 20 percent of people who really take it seriously, go to diagnosis, and receive treatment, and only 10 percent actually receive medication. That said, at least 70 million people around us are still struggling in the mire, without any help.
I can't help but ask, why is the recognition rate of depression so low?
One irrefutable reason is that most people on the mainland do not yet recognize the importance of mental health, know little about depression, and are full of misconceptions.
"Don't make excuses for yourself, you're just idle and think too much"
"You should go out for a walk, can you not be depressed when you are always bored at home?"
In addition, there is also a lack of understanding of the harm of depression, thinking that it is just a bad mood and low mood.
Low mood is accompanied by anxiety, decreased interest, drowsiness or insomnia, fatigue, changes in appetite, low self-esteem, slow thinking, and even patients may repeatedly think of death or have suicide attempts, and eventually about 10-15% of patients choose suicide.
Depression is an emotional problem, heart disease still needs heart medicine?
In the United States, it is very common to see a psychologist, and people will openly talk about seeing a psychologist.
However, in China, this is a different scene, Chinese believe that the main body of health is the human body, and only physical problems need a doctor, so they do not think that emotional problems are "diseases", and they are more taboo to see a psychologist [3][4].
What's even sadder is that. For some vulnerable people, life is already so difficult, it is difficult for them to distinguish their state is because of life difficulties or depression, so they simply do not solve...
Depression is a disease, please repeat this sentence in your heart 3 times.
When eating becomes a hassle, communication is a headache, sleep becomes a luxury, and every simple thing seems to consume all effort, what we have to do is not to wait for the mood to improve, but to see a doctor.
As a mental illness, depression is not the kind of "heart disease" that we often say "heart disease still needs heart medicine". For the treatment of depression, follow the doctor's advice, once the depression is diagnosed, regardless of the severity of the depression, psychotherapy and drug treatment are not in conflict, it is equally important.
Depression is mainly associated with three neurotransmitters, including norepinephrine (NE), serotonin (5-HT), and dopamine (DA).
Here we first make a hypothesis, Xiao Wang is unemployed and out of love at the same time, resulting in all the characteristics of an acute depressive episode, and the symptoms continue for more than two weeks, we can determine that he is a depressed patient.
It should be mentioned here that the most talked about etiological hypothesis of depression is the monoamine hypothesis, involving neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine (NE), serotonin (5-HT), and dopamine (DA).
Norepinephrine may be associated with people's alertness, but also with physical discomforts such as anxiety, attention, interest in life, and pain;
Serotonin corresponds to anxiety, low mood, and decreased interest;
Dopamine corresponds to the mechanisms of attention, positivity, pleasure, and reward, but is also associated with the patient's interest in life.
When Xiao Wang's career love is smooth, the brain will think that this is a good thing, conducive to survival and reproduction, so it will secrete a large amount of dopamine to reward him, making him feel happy and satisfied.
So love and a stable job can make his DA elevated, when he is out of love and unemployed, DA secretion is reduced, will make him have a depressive mood of behavior despair and lack of pleasure, but generally this mood swing can be alleviated by itself, and depression can only be diagnosed as depression if it reaches a certain intensity and a certain time.
Of course, DA is only one of the factors of depression, the deficiency of 5-HT and NE in the protruding gap is a more important factor, and most antidepressants are to increase the concentration of these two transmitters in the synaptic space, further improving symptoms. Therefore, for achieving a certain degree of depression, the use of drugs is a must.
Finally, society continues to move forward, and if you feel depressed, be sure to see a doctor. The only difference between depression and a cold is that it is a more complex disease that does not deserve a sense of superiority, let alone a sense of shame, but people who work hard to treat it are remarkable.
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