For a long time in the past, depression has always been linked to "pretentiousness", "cannot think out" and "introduction". It seems that depression is not a disease, but an irrelevant emotion in a person. If you can endure it, you can get over it. If you can't endure it, you will be "cannot think out and pretentious". In short, no one will take depression, a disease that may be fatal.
Until recent years, the number of people committing suicide due to depression has continued to increase, and many well-known people committed suicide due to depression: in 2003, the famous movie star Leslie Cheung jumped down from a high-rise building; in 2016, actor Qiao Renliang ended his young life at home; in 2019, the well-known Korean actress Cui Xueli committed suicide... There are also college students who have frequently entered the hot searches in recent years to commit suicide due to depression. The passing of these lives has gradually led to the public eye and attracted the attention of people from all walks of life.
Then, this disease that is only noticed by life is accumulated. Due to the complexity and uncertainty of its symptoms, coupled with the high topics of depression in recent years, many unscrupulous people use "depression" as an interface to earn black heart heat and black heart money, which gradually casts a gray veil and becomes the object of ridicule and mocking for some people.
Such phenomena are heartbreaking, regretful and hated.
Depression is "swallowing" teenagers and "mom"
There are always some people who think that depression is far away from them, but in fact depression is very close to us. A smiling teenager I saw on the street, maybe he is a depressed patient .
According to the "2022 National Depression White Paper", people with 62.36% of often feel depressed, while people suffering from depression have about 1 billion . Among them, 50% of depression patients are on-campus students, 32% of depressed patients are underage. Depression has been called cancer, and the second severe "killer" in the life safety of Chinese teenagers.
In addition to this, women's mental health problems should not be underestimated. Compared with men, women suffer more pressure from their families, society, children, etc., and are more likely to suffer from depression. Data from the "2022 National Depression White Paper" shows that female patients with depression account for 68% of the depression population, about of male patients twice .
Among them, about women Postpartum depression is even more shocking. about 63% of women have suffered, and 40% is not valued by their family members. Instead, the patients are blamed for being "pretentious", "spicy" and "interesting".
Who is depression?
Depression is neither an infectious disease nor a typical organic disease, but it is a very complex disease with complex causes. The genetic genes of , , nervous system , psychological and behavioral patterns, and external stimulation , etc. may be called the cause of depression attacks;
, the onset of depression is a gradual dynamic process that interacts with the outside world based on physiological susceptibility, and ultimately shows a series of "depressive symptoms" in the body.
Depression is very harmful to people. It is not only manifested in psychological closure, unwilling to communicate with people, anxiety, impatience, etc., but also some physiological symptoms, such as poor sleep, memory and attention degradation, etc.
patients with severe depression will commit suicide and self-harm. According to data given by World Health Organization , every year, about 1 million people in my country committed suicide due to depression.
4 major symptoms of depression
At some point, depression is indeed very easy to be confused with simple transient depression. This is also the main reason why some people think that depression is not worthy of attention, but once they find that people around them have these six symptoms, you must be vigilant!
1. Long-term depression
Short-term depression may be just a simple depression, but once you find out that it is long-term depression , and you are constantly doubting your ability or the meaning of survival, feeling that you are useless to your family, society, and country, and you even have hallucinations, and you need to be highly vigilant.
2. Thinking is getting slower and slower
The brain is like rust, The reaction is getting slower and slower . The thinking is getting less and less active, the attention is getting harder and less focused, and the less talkative, and sometimes the communication is not smooth. You need to be vigilant.
3, the will activity decrease
becomes less and less interested in working, becomes lazy, and is unable to get interested in anything; the behavior becomes slow, and you can stay still all day long, or even eat; but you still often feel anxious and restless, and sit still and stand ; and even more, there are extremely pessimistic thoughts, and self-harm and suicide . This is the most serious symptom of depression and you must be highly vigilant.
4, Sleep Disorders
Depressed patients almost all have a certain degree of sleep disorders, which are manifested as Light sleep, easy to wake up, insomnia, difficulty falling asleep, lots of dreams , etc. Moreover, many patients with depression often cannot continue to sleep after waking up early.
At present, with the satisfaction of material needs, more people have begun to pursue spiritual satisfaction, but the pace of life has become faster, the increase in economic pressure, and the increase in life burden have undoubtedly made many people's spiritual needs unsatisfied. In addition, the interactions between people are becoming more and more shallow, care has become less and companionship has become less, and the possibility of depression is higher.
Depression is a disease that cannot be ignored. In severe cases, there will be life danger. Once we find that people around us or ourselves tend to suffer from depression, we must be vigilant, give comfort, and persuade them to seek help from doctors. In short, we cannot let go of our care and cannot wait until we lose it before regretting it.
