Xuzhou Mental Health Service Station: Mental illnesses such as depression are often considered “simple” mental illnesses in the eyes of many patients. However, among the symptoms of depression, physical symptoms are also a classic warning sign. Even when some physical symptoms appear, patients themselves do not know that they have suffered from diseases such as depression.
Therefore, when preventing diseases such as depression, you must always pay attention to changes in physical symptoms. So what are the physical symptoms of depression for patients?
1. Sleep disorders
The main manifestation of sleep disorders in depression is early waking up. Generally, patients wake up 2 to 3 hours earlier than usual and cannot fall asleep again after waking up early. There are also people who have difficulty falling asleep and won’t sleep at night. A very small number of patients exhibit excessive sleepiness.
2. Loss of appetite
Most patients suffer from symptoms of loss of appetite and poor appetite, and delicious food is no longer attractive to them; some people, on the contrary, will eat non-stop, leading to weight loss or gain.
3. Loss of sexual desire
Most patients lose sexual desire in the early stages of the disease. Men may be impotent , while women may be indifferent.
4. Patients with autonomic nervous dysfunction
often experience headache, dizziness, insomnia, memory loss, precordial pain, palpitations , shortness of breath or hyperventilation, sudden death, fullness, abdominal discomfort, bowel sounds , and constipation. Alternate with diarrhea. These symptoms of general discomfort are more prominent among digestive system symptoms.
5. My chest hurts for no reason.
Unexplained chest pain is sometimes a symptom of depression. We say depression increases the risk of heart disease. Of course, heart disease patients are also more likely to be depressed.
6. Muscle and Joint Pain
When muscle and joint pain persists, it increases the risk of depression because depression and pain share chemical messengers in the brain. The incidence of pain in patients with depression is three times that of normal people.
For mental and psychological diseases such as depression, we need to start with basic prevention. We must understand that depression is not a simple mental and psychological disease. Sometimes, in the case of long-term mental depression, patients will not reveal their depression for some reason. Instead, they chose to suppress themselves. Self-repression, although not relieved, manifests itself in the form of physical symptoms. This is why many patients feel pain all over their bodies for no apparent reason, but become depressed when they go to the hospital for a check-up.
