"Guidelines for Primary Treatment of Depression": It mainly includes 3 parts: emotional symptoms, physical symptoms and cognitive symptoms. Thinking activities slow down, speech activities reduce, speaking slowly, and simple problems also take a long time to complete;

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How to identify depression through clinical symptoms? "Guidelines for Primary Treatment of Depression (2021)":

mainly includes 3 parts: emotional symptoms (core), physical symptoms and cognitive symptoms.

01 Emotional/mood depressed, loss of interest, fatigue, loss of vitality or loss of

02 Cognitive symptoms

  • Thinking activities slow down, speech activities reduce, speaking slow, simple problems also take a long time to complete;

  • Decision ability is significantly reduced, and even small things are difficult to decide;

  • Inattention, easy distraction, information processing ability to process , indifferent to yourself and the surrounding environment.

03 Anxiety or arousal

  • Anxiety, nervous, worried, restless, constantly walking, pace back and forth, rubbing hands, aimless movements, etc.

04 Physical symptoms

  • Loss of appetite, low appetite, poor digestive function, weight loss, a few manifestations of increased appetite;

  • Sleep disorder : Early awakening (typical), difficulty falling asleep (with irritability and anxiety), poor sleep, easy to wake up, and a few experience excessive sleep;

  • Low sexual desire, no requirements for sexual life or lack of pleasure;

  • Others: headache, neck pain, low back pain and other pain in any part of the body, dry mouth , sweating, blurred vision, palpitations, chest tightness , swelling of the throat, nausea, vomiting, burning sensation of the stomach, flatulence, indigestion, constipation, frequent urination , urgent urination, etc.

05 Suicide concepts, suicide attempts and suicide

  • Depressed, low self-evaluation, prone to inferiority, self-blame, despair and suicidal concepts, which often appear repeatedly;

  • Driven by the concept of suicide, some will have suicide plans and even suicide behaviors;

  • For those who have had suicide concepts or attempted suicide, they should repeatedly remind their families and caregivers to take preventing suicide as their top priority.

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