The news of singer Li Min's death was shocking. In the public impression, Li Min always maintains a sunny and optimistic image. Many netizens felt unbelievable and wondered: Why do people who look sunny and cheerful also get depression? This is actually a misunderstanding of depression by many people.
Most people have stereotypes about depression, and people who feel depressed are sullen and have no interest in life, while people who are sunny and laughing will not get depression.
In fact, not every depressed person will show a pessimistic state, and cannot be judged simply by the personality that people show. Today, doctors from the Clinical Psychology Clinic of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine came to talk to you about "sunshine depression".
What is "sunshine depression"?
This is a popular saying, which means that people with depression cover up their depressed side, only show people their sunny side, let others think that their life is happy, resulting in depressive symptoms are difficult to detect, difficult to get help from the outside world in time, and then it is easier to fall into an isolated and helpless situation, and long-term cathartic negative emotions accumulate, forming huge pressure.
How to recognize depression?
Depression is a common mental illness with diverse and ever-changing symptoms, and great individual variations, but can be broadly grouped into the following categories.
1. Low mood: This is the most core symptom, mainly manifested as significant and persistent low mood and pessimism, varying in severity. Mild patients will be sullen, lack of pleasure, and lack of interest, and severe patients will feel pessimistic and desperate, living like years, and painful.
2. Thinking disorders: patients often feel that their thinking is slow, their brains are empty, their reactions are slow, and they can't remember things. The thinking content is more pessimistic and negative, and in severe cases, patients even have delusions and other psychiatric symptoms, such as suspecting that they are seriously ill due to physical discomfort, and may also appear relationship delusions, poverty delusions, delusions of victimhood, etc., and some patients may also have hallucinations, often auditory hallucinations.
3. Decreased volitional activity: manifested as no willingness and motivation to do things. For example, life is lazy, unwilling to socialize, alone for a long time, and in serious cases, personal hygiene is ignored, and even silent, not moving, and not eating.
4. Cognitive impairment: mainly manifested as memory loss, decreased attention, always recall unhappy things in the past, or always think of pessimistic things.
5. Physical symptoms: Common symptoms include sleep disorders, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, constipation, pain (any part of the body), loss of libido, impotence, amenorrhea and autonomic dysfunction.
Can depression be treated?
Depression, as a disease, is not an "incurable disease". Most patients can be cured by seeking professional help. As with most diseases, the sooner depression is treated, the better the outcome. It is best to seek psychological intervention in time when depression has just appeared, so as to avoid depression.
The general rule of depression medication is to start from a low dose, gradually increase the amount, and then maintain treatment after reaching the target dose, and the continuous medication treatment time should reach one to two years or even longer. Although the process is long, patients who truly achieve cure can return to normal work and life, and when they encounter setbacks, they sometimes are stronger than ordinary people after experiencing lows.
How to get along with someone with depression?
Support from caregivers, family, and friends of depression is beneficial to the recovery of people with depression. Recovery takes time, so patience and perseverance are essential.
1. Listen more and understand more
Listening is very important for people with depression, and after listening, it is best not to evaluate or blame. It is also important for people with depression to feel understood, and many of their pains are unknown and difficult to express at once, so constantly try to understand them more.
2. No blame
People with depression are most afraid of being labeled as not working hard, not responsible, not serious, not persistent, etc. Don't say "what is this", "people's situation is more difficult than you, and they are not depressed", "you just think too much, just want to start something".
The causes of depression are complex, which may involve many factors such as biology, psychology, and the environment, and we cannot choose whether we want to have the disease. Don't just ask "why are you depressed" and "why is everyone stressed, just because you're sick?"
3. Rely on a professional doctor
Professional psychiatrists will judge whether the patient needs drug intervention, psychotherapy, etc. according to the patient's disease status and give relevant treatment plans.
If you're experiencing depression, I want you to understand:
Those who really love you will want to see a real you who can not only laugh but also cry than a perfect image, and life will not be bad because you are sad.
Likewise, depression does not automatically disappear just because you are hidden, for the vast majority of people, hard resistance is not a good method, it is not a disease that can be fought with will.
Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has opened a clinical psychology clinic where you can make appointments by phone, and we are always there whenever you need it.
Tang Pei is the attending physician of the Clinical Psychology Clinic
He graduated from Guizhou Medical University with a major in clinical medicine, has been engaged in psychiatric and internal medicine diagnosis and treatment for more than 10 years, and has studied in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University and Chongqing Mental Health Center. Receive systematic training in mental health-related expertise, including systematic learning of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral therapy theories and techniques. Good at: Diagnosis and treatment of common mental diseases such as anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, schizophrenia and so on.
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