Author:Yu Jiali[1] Li Xu[2]
Reviewed by Tan Liming[2]
Units: [1] The Second Clinical College of Nanchang University [2] The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020, there are currently 350 million people with depression worldwide. In China, 3.2% suffer from depression, which is on the rise.
What's even more worrying is that the medical treatment rate is not up to 10%! There are still many patients who suffer discrimination, who are not understood and valued.
Let's walk into them now, get to know and help them!
What is depression?
Depression is a typical condition of depressive disorder. It is a mental disorder with a high prevalence and high clinical cure rate, but due to insufficient awareness of the disease, fewer patients insist on receiving regular treatment, so there are also characteristics of low treatment rate and high recurrence rate.
It is mainly characterized by significant and persistent depression, some patients have self-injury, suicidal behavior, can be accompanied by delusions, hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms, severe may occur depressive stiffness, can be manifested as fixed facial expressions, lack of response to stimuli, little or no words, less movement or even immobility.
Manifestations of depression?
The general manifestations of depression can be divided into three aspects: core symptom group, psychological symptom group and somatic symptom group, namely: low mood, decreased interest, and anhedonia.
These three symptoms are considered typical of severe depression, but these typical symptoms do not necessarily occur in all patients.
Characteristics of people prone to depression?
What are the characteristics of people with depression bias?
1. People who are not good at expression;
2. People with relatively large work pressure;
3. Widowed elderly people;
4. Pregnant or in the feeding period.
Are these all depressions?
Is emotional depression depression?
Not a depression.
Strictly speaking, it does not describe an emotion, but a set of emotions, including sadness, distress, and depression, which anyone can encounter, and we can generally refer to this group of emotions as "unhappiness".
In general, emotional depression can be self-regulated within two weeks.
Is it depression for a child to cut a hand with a knife?
This behavior may be depression, or it may be mania, paranoid personality, etc. Once it is found that your child has a tendency to self-harm or suicidal behavior, you should take your child to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
Is it depression to be uninterested in anything and feeling tired and lazy?
This requires attention to whether there is neurasthenia and insufficient blood supply to the brain, whether there is poor sleep and excessive stress, whether there is long-term low-head cervical spondylosis, whether there is hypotension and anemia, etc., and then consider whether to have depression when the physical condition is normal.
Have suicidal thoughts been depressed?
For people with depression, the most serious problem is suicide. Therefore, many people will think that suicide is a common symptom of depression. But the idea of suicide is not depression, it may be extreme thoughts caused by certain stimuli, such as life pressure, work pressure, etc.
But both depressed people and normal people should not have suicidal thoughts, and should not give up their lives at will. Everyone should regulate their emotions in life, learn to treat life positively, and have a good life.
Prevention and treatment of depression
Seek medical attention as soon as possible
Don't struggle, don't be difficult to talk about because you are sick, it is easier to find the location of the disease through medical treatment, and get rid of the pain as soon as possible through targeted treatment.
Open your heart and speak up
Many patients may prefer to lick the wound alone, but this situation is not conducive to the treatment of the disease. It may be difficult for patients to open up and communicate with people, but positive talk may make your condition better, and I believe that your friends will be happy to listen to your experience.
Get off the web and walk around outdoors
According to some data, exercise can make people happy and relaxed, and it is also a natural painkiller for the human body. Going outdoors to walk or exercise more is not only beneficial to overcoming the patient's loneliness, but also to relieve stress and tension, while alleviating the torment of depression.
Find hobbies and focus on hobbies
Having a positive hobby, you can listen to music or draw and spend a certain amount of time focusing on it, and through hard work you can get a sense of accomplishment from these hobbies, and maybe even find a sense of confidence and pleasure in meeting good friends because of your hobby.
In fact, depression is not so terrible, if someone around you suffers from depression. Please actively and without deliberately helping him, because our care and companionship is the best medicine to help him out of the shadows.
Edited by: Yeah Reviewer: Xiao Ran