A bad mood will happen to everyone. Negative emotions such as grievance, anger, disgust, and even collapse and crying are very normal, and are even beneficial to mental health.

often comes to visit me: "Teacher, do you think I have depression /anxiety/ obsessive-compulsive disorder (various mental illnesses) or even mental illness?"

So today I will teach you how to judge whether I am just in a bad mood or have the possibility of psychological or mental illness.

There is a big difference between emotional illness and bad mood.

Bad mood will happen to everyone. Negative emotions such as grievance, anger, disgust, and even collapse and crying are very normal, and are even beneficial to mental health.

For example, when someone is under too strong work or emotional pressure, such as suffering severe blows, such as being cheated, passing away from relatives, family turmoil, etc., it is normal for human beings to fall into a trough and feel strong pain.

At this time, you will get angry and cry. These are ways to relieve psychological stress, which will strengthen the overall psychological resilience of the individual and reduce anxiety level. The difference between

Emotional Disease and simple Emotional Bad is the physiological basis, time dimension, and emotional controllability.

First of all, whether it is a milder "depressed state" or a psychological disorder that already meets the diagnostic criteria of "depressed state" and "anxiety disorder", not to mention the more serious serious mental illnesses such as " bipolar disorder ", " schizophrenia ", they themselves are physiological diseases and have a physical pathological basis.

The existing medical inference is roughly because there are problems with human neurotransmitters and abnormal secretion of sex hormones such as dopamine , which leads to the occurrence of psychological and mental illnesses.

However, both neurology and brain neurology have limited development at the current stage, so there is no machine that can take pictures of people and test hormone blood images to confirm whether an individual has met the diagnostic criteria for psychological or mental illness.

Of course, when psychological or mental illness has reached a very, very serious level, a certain degree of brain structural changes, brain wave diagrams, heart rate abnormalities, etc. can usually be observed.

But these can often only be used as auxiliary references. Whether it constitutes a disease or not, it still requires the doctor to auscultize the patient's personal subjective expression, conduct clinical observation of the individual, combine the patient's drug reaction for a period of time, etc. to make a diagnosis, adjust the diagnosis, and even eventually change the diagnosis.

However, moderately severe emotional diseases usually have somatic manifestations . Common symptoms include headache, dizziness, insomnia, easy to wake up, gastrointestinal discomfort, physical weakness, poor breathing, palpitations, palpitations, panic attacks, over-breathing, uncontrollable tremors in the limbs, chills, vomiting, etc.

The physiology of emotional diseases is also reflected in genetic phenomena. Most emotional and mental diseases have a higher probability of genetics. If there are confirmed emotional and mental patients in family and relatives, the possibility of offspring will be higher.

Secondly, "bad emotions" is converted into emotional disease at least needs to meet the following conditions:

1. Strong emotional intensity (strong pain, particularly sadness, extreme anger, very depressed...);

2. The time dimension is one of the most important judgment criteria . First of all, most patients with emotional diseases will be immersed in bad emotions most of the day, and emotional pain lasts for at least two weeks and has not improved;

(Different diagnostic criteria for mental illness and mental disorders are different, and DSM-5 can be seen in detail, but most of the diagnostic criteria need to meet "more than two consecutive weeks and most of the time every day..." Discontinuous emotional pain is more likely to be a normal phenomenon rather than a disease)

3. It has (serious) actual impact on personal life , such as being unable to get up from bed to work, doing behaviors that harm oneself or others, such as recklessness, gambling, risk pursuit, addiction, self-destructive behavior...

Finally, if you want to tell whether you are in a bad mood or emotional disease, you can also refer to "emotional controllability".

For people with bad emotions, emotions are often stimulated by events, and it is easier to be excited and unhappy when encountering troubles, but basically there are traceable "emotional stimulation sources" (such as unsuccessful work, quarrels with others, emotional frustrations, etc.), which triggers individual emotional fluctuations.

But for emotional patients, emotions may come without any end, and people may suddenly feel sad and unable to control themselves, and even cry, collapse and lose their ability to move for no reason in the workplace.

I had a visit to diagnose moderate depression. She once said that her emotions seemed to become no longer just illusory feelings, but like an organ of the body.

She will feel the stomachache patient feeling the pain and the stomach is thrust, and she feels the mood surging and fighting against the sudden emotional "swelling".

If the mentally ill patient is a little more serious, he may have delusions, hallucinations, and even lose his self-awareness, etc.

So if you often doubt whether you have emotional illness, you can check it yourself according to the above content. I believe that most people are just temporarily experiencing emotional depression and will not reach the level of emotional illness , so there is no need to over-in and scare yourself.

But traumatic events may indeed induce emotional diseases or even mental illnesses. Therefore, if you encounter an emotional blow, feel strong emotional pain, and your bad state has lasted for more than two weeks, your work and life have been greatly affected or even difficult to operate, please be sure to pay attention to observe your own state.

It is best to go to the hospital's psychology department (some hospitals are classified in neurology) for treatment, follow the doctor's instructions for treatment, and pay attention to your physical and mental health!

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