"Some people will smile, but they will also be depressed and sad."
Author | Liang Yandong
Hello, I am Yandong.
October 10th every year is World Mental Health Day .
According to experts, with the intensification of social competition, mild mental developmental disorders such as depression , autism, anxiety disorders and other mental developmental disorders are as common as colds.
What makes experts extremely worried is that there are 16 million people with mental development disorders in my country, but the number of people receiving treatment accounts for only 20% of all patients, and 80% of the patients lack treatment.
At the same time, among the 200,000 people who end their lives by suicide every year in my country, 80% of the suicide victims suffer from depression.
We feel that depression only occurs in movies and TV series, but in fact depression is not far from us.
At the beginning of this year, a post published by the Lancet entitled "The Lancet - Major Report on Depression of the World Psychiatric Association" stated that
Depression has become a global health crisis, and is becoming increasingly serious and has not been effectively resolved so far.
It is reported that 5% of adults worldwide suffer from depression every year.
With the impact of the epidemic in 2020, our lives and work have been greatly affected.
may be a cause of the epidemic, or it may be other reasons, but we must reach a consensus:
Depression is not a simple bad mood, it will not get better on its own.
At the same time, some people may be depressed even if they laugh happily.
They are as usual, but they can also explode at any time.
If you feel that your spirit is really wrong, you can first read the book "The Depression Empire";
has a certain understanding of depression, and then seek help from professionals in time.
What exactly is depression?
Now, "I'm depressed." has become a catchphrase.
Is it not easy for us to live a life, or do we have too many desires?
Or is it because the social competition pressure is too great, and we cannot bear it at the spiritual level?
In fact, there has always been a mysterious connection between matter and spirit, body and emotions.
Even in current science and medicine, there is no final conclusion on the causes of depression.
The book "Empire of Depression" says that if we are depressed, our brains will not be able to stop thinking and tangle, but the body will have difficulty in moving.
And the pain of self-conflict and self-blame is everywhere, torture us in different ways.
It swallows happiness, eliminates hope and ambitions, and even lie flat. Our lives are exhausted by it and then become a walking dead.
"Empire of Depression" also said that the early psychoanalysis emphasized that anger turned internally, that is, self-attack and guilt.
Later psychoanalysis emphasizes the internalized relationship between helplessness, anger and jealousy.
The most influential one should be Carl Jung, who used the theory of "psychological energy" for his explanation of depression.
I remember watching a movie before:
A wife in a family suffers from depression. When it was severe, she would send her child out to school in the morning and pick her up after school in the afternoon.
Then I lay in bed all day, and the child didn't go to pick him up after class in the afternoon.
For her wife, she originally planned to take the child off, but depression hit her and she had no way to resist.
I still remember this news:
A man sent his wife to work in the morning. He drove the car to the bridge and jumped off the bridge.
The wife said that the man was normal, there was no workplace pressure or unhappiness in life.
I don’t know if it’s because of depression.
However, depression comes, and it is difficult for people who are attacked to resist by their own will alone.
How to treat depression?
I met a friend before:
He is a sunny big boy in front of people,
But once, because of work, I needed to go to his place where he lives and took U to drive , and then I found that he had a tendency to be depressed;
Don’t pack everything in the house and smoke all the time;
I can’t get interested in everything, so I just lie in bed, and have no idea about time. I feel something is wrong with
, but I don’t know how to help him.
often people suffering from depression will be trapped in a container for a long time, people inside cannot get out and people outside cannot get in.
is like a "bell cover", oppressing and suffocating. For those in the "bell cover" deep,
is confused and stagnant like a dead baby, and the world itself is a nightmare.
Is there any good way to help patients with depression get out?
The answer is yes.
The author said in the book that it is best to start from many aspects to treat depression. Here are two methods.
1. Use medication, such as taking Prozac.
2. Use psychotherapy, such as conversation therapy.
However, in the end, the author did not say that depression can be cured, nor did he eradicate it.
We can only face it actively.
Write to the end
"Depressed Empire" author's message:
We cannot change some problems that will make life difficult.
But the problem of depression can be alleviated.
We are likely to be unable to eradicate it, and we have not found a reliable eradication method.
But we have effective treatments and we also know that preventive measures such as education and lifestyle recommendations can reduce the burden of disease.
We also know which social factors increase the risk of depression and worsen it.
these social factors can be changed.
Reference Book: "Empire of Depression"
