Everyone has emotions and desires,
His, anger, sorrow and joy are normal emotions.
However, with the development of society, more and more people always feel unhappy and unhappy.
Even more and more people are being diagnosed with depression.
The horror of depression need not be repeated. Are all unhappiness and unhappiness depression?
First of all, we need to distinguish the several levels of depression.
The first layer is depression.
When there are situations such as difficulties in study, unsatisfactory work, emotional setbacks, misunderstandings by friends, and illnesses against myself and my relatives, depression often follows. These emotions happen for a reason, and depression occurs under the influence of environmental factors. Therefore, this depressive emotion caused by objective conditions is time-limited. As long as there is no new environmental stimulus, it will naturally ease and become stable after a period of time.
Depression is quite normal and everyone experiences it, and it cannot be called a disease state. After self-adjustment, depression can be calmed down in a short time.
The second level is depression.
The severity of depression is much deeper than depression. In addition to depression for a reason, it may also be accompanied by depression without any specific cause, which is the so-called "endogenous depression".
Friends with "endogenous depression" may describe their feelings like this:
· I don't know why, but I just can't be happy.
· I am not interested in anything now, and what I was interested in before is gone now.
At the same time, the state of depression is also accompanied by some other bad feelings, that is, additional symptoms, including: insomnia, poor appetite, weight loss, loss of libido, lack of energy, fatigue, loss of vitality, lack of motivation, sluggish brain, self-blame, self-evaluation low, frustrated, and even pessimistic.
Depressed state is already a disease state, but it is still a long way from depression. The third layer of
is the depression we are familiar with.
The main difference between depression and depression is the duration and degree of depression. There is no need to worry too much about short-term depression, but if depression persists for a long time and continues to deepen, depression should be highly suspected. At this time, it is recommended to seek professional psychologists as soon as possible. Or the help of a psychiatrist.
It needs to be reminded here that depression, also known as depressive disorder, is a disease, not "squeamish, hypocritical, lazy", and requires scientific, reasonable and standardized treatment. Suffering from depression is a very painful thing. If family members do not understand this, they think it is shameful and humiliating to have this disease, which is harmful to the recovery of the patient.
So, what are the core symptoms of depression?
The first is emotional symptoms.
Affective symptoms are the core features of depressive disorders, including low mood, loss of interest or even loss, and lack of pleasure. Depressed mood is present most of the day and generally does not improve with changes in circumstances. Symptoms can show rhythmic changes within a day. For example, some patients have the most severe depression in the morning and begin to improve in the evening.
The second is somatic symptoms.
"Somatic symptoms", which are traditionally considered "biological symptoms" or "endogenous depressive symptoms" in clinical practice, including abnormalities in weight, appetite, sleep, and behavioral activities. Typical manifestations of
include:
psychomotor retardation or agitation;
wake up 2 hours or more earlier than usual in the morning;
significantly decreased appetite;
1 month weight loss of at least 5%;
The somatic symptoms described above are usually present in patients with moderate to severe depressive episodes. In addition, some patients also have symptoms such as pain, tachycardia, and constipation. Many patients did not feel that they were depressed at first, but based on these physical symptoms, they went to the doctor as insomnia, stomach problems or other diseases, and conventional treatments for these diseases could not eliminate these physical symptoms, and depression should be highly suspected at this time. The presence.
The third is cognitive symptoms.
Depressive disorder patients are mostly manifested as slow thinking, inattention, decreased information processing ability, and indifference to self and the surrounding environment, but after treatment, such cognitive impairment is often reversible. Patients with major depressive disorder are often at risk of pessimism, self-blame, negative world-weariness, and suicide, which need careful evaluation and prevention.
Fourth are some specific clinical features.
Depressed patients often have not only depressive features, but also anxiety features, melancholic features, psychotic features, catatonic features, and other mixed features. You need to fully describe your feelings to the doctor when you seek medical treatment, so that the doctor can make an accurate judgment.
If I am diagnosed with depression, how is it treated?
The treatment goal of depression is to diagnose as early as possible, standardize treatment in a timely manner, control symptoms, improve clinical cure rate, minimize disability rate and suicide rate, prevent recurrence, and promote the recovery of social functions. The treatment of depressive disorder includes: drug therapy, psychotherapy and physical therapy, etc., and advocates the whole course of treatment based on assessment. The treatment phase is divided into acute phase, consolidation phase and maintenance phase.
6 to 12 weeks. Symptoms should be controlled, clinical cure should be achieved as far as possible, the disability rate and suicide rate should be minimized, the function should be restored to the pre-morbid level as much as possible, and the quality of life should be improved.
is at least 2 to 3 years. Patients with multiple recurrences or obvious residual symptoms should be treated for a long time. Continuous and standardized treatment can effectively reduce the recurrence rate of depressive disorder. After the maintenance treatment, if the condition is stable, the drug can be slowly reduced until the treatment is terminated. Once the early signs of recurrence are found, the treatment should be resumed quickly.
The reason why many patients with depression relapse is that they stop treatment without authorization during the consolidation and maintenance periods. In the acute phase, most patients and their families can be treated according to the doctor's arrangement. After entering the consolidation period, the patients feel much better about themselves. At this time, the drug may be discontinued without authorization, or the family may not have a scientific understanding of depression and think that taking too much medicine is not good. immediate cause of relapse.Once you are diagnosed with depression, please calm down, listen to the doctor's arrangements, and do not make decisions without authorization. Continuous and standardized treatment is particularly important.
Everyone should think about how to adjust their mentality when they encounter depression, hoping to prevent the occurrence of this disease in some ways.
First of all, if we can have relatively healthy living habits in our lives, such as reasonable sleep, relatively healthy diet and psychological state, it can help us better cope with negative events in life and reduce the occurrence of depression .
At ordinary times, we can consciously strengthen our psychological quality, self-mediate, do not impose excessive demands on ourselves, and set some suitable plans, especially when encountering negative events in our life, write a mood diary, or communicate with others. Friends share their feelings, this is a better way of self-regulation.
At the same time, we are also constantly learning better self-regulation methods, including reasonable exercise, listening to some music properly, taking care of pets, going out, etc., which are beneficial to our body and mind and can prevent the occurrence of depression.
However, many diseases often occur without obvious signs, and the same is true for depression. Here we emphasize again that depression is a disease, and being sick is not a fault or a shame. Correct view and treatment is the best way to overcome it, and any escape and disguise can only aggravate the disease.
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