Xuzhou Mental Health Service Station: Depression is a very common emotional component that occurs in everyone. Depression will naturally occur when people encounter mental stress, life setbacks, painful situations, birth, old age, illness and death, natural and man-made disasters, etc.
But depression is different. It is a pathological and psychological depressive disorder that is completely different from depression after a setback. It would be abnormal if you don't become depressed when encountering unpleasant things. What is the difference between normal depression and pathological depression?
The difference between normal depression and pathological depression can be seen from the following aspects:
①Is there a cause (symptoms): Normal people’s depression is based on certain objective things, that is, “Everything has a reason. ". However, depression usually occurs for no reason, lacking objective mental stress conditions, or although there are adverse mental stimulation factors, the unhappiness is often difficult for outsiders to understand, giving people the feeling of "making a mountain out of a molehill."
② Duration (course of disease): Generally, people's mood changes have a certain time limit, usually short-term, and people can usually alleviate them through self-regulation; but the symptoms of depression often persist, and it is difficult to relieve them on their own even without treatment. Symptoms will gradually worsen. Symptoms of depression often last longer than two weeks, and some last longer than a month or even several months.
③Severity: The former has a mild degree of depression, while the latter has a severe degree, which affects the patient's work, study and life, cannot adapt to society, affects his or her social functions, and can even lead to serious negative suicidal words and behaviors.
④Symptoms: Depression is often accompanied by obvious physical symptoms and psychiatric symptoms, such as persistent and stubborn insomnia, various psychological and behavioral abnormalities, decreased weight, appetite, and sexual desire, functional discomfort in many parts of the body that are difficult to locate, and the overall symptom relationship. There is no abnormality in the inspection. All of these are common symptoms of depression.
⑤ Course of disease and change pattern: Typical depression has rhythmic symptoms, showing a pattern of changes that are heavy in the morning and light at night. Many patients often say that they are in a particularly bad and painful mood every morning, so many patients often have suicidal thoughts at this time. After 3 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the patient's mood gradually improved. At night, she seemed fine. In the morning I fell into a difficult moment of morbid melancholy.
⑥ Attack tendency and family history: Depression can recur, and the basic symptoms of each attack are roughly similar, as evidenced by repeated attacks and past history. Additionally, families with depression often have a history of psychosis or episodes of similar affective disorders.
