Regarding this question, almost all friends who have "get along" with depression have asked me or others.
In reality, many patients with depression endure pain silently, neither telling their family nor seeking help from doctors. When facing family, friends and colleagues, they always force themselves to smile, but their hearts are already trapped in the abyss of darkness.
They think that psychology, emotions, and thoughts can be controlled and will not affect their physical health. They will definitely recover as before after a while.
In fact, Depression is a highly recurrent and highly disabling mental illness. The harm caused by long-term non-treatment of depression is far beyond imagination.
1. It seriously reduces the quality of life, and patients are not as good as death;
2. It is really going to die, that is, commit suicide. Suicide is divided into three steps: suicide ideation, suicide attempt, and suicide.
Almost every patient with depression has ideas and intentions, but to move towards suicide, two conditions must be met, namely the willingness to commit suicide and the motivation to execute.
If patients with depression are not treated, about one-third will repeat and become chronic; one-third will eventually choose to commit suicide.
I have a patient who was laid off due to the epidemic. He couldn't find a job that I was satisfied with when looking for a job. Half a year has passed and I haven't found a stable job yet. This put a lot of pressure on him, making him become less and less confident, and his emotions are getting lower and lower. He feels that living is too tiring, and he lives every day and is pessimistic and desperate, and even wants to commit suicide.
Day after day, his depression became more and more serious, resulting in depression. He also often self-harm and has scars on his arms.
He said that due to money, he did not treat it in time. As time goes by, the idea of suicide becomes stronger and stronger, but when he thinks of his parents, he struggled to hold on until now.
He said: I'm too tired to persevere until now, and I don't want to persevere anymore, but when I think of my elderly parents, I think I can't do this, so I come for treatment.
If you suffer from depression, what are the dangers of not treating it for a long time?
1, causing cognitive impairment
Depression will cause hippocampus , thalamus , frontal and prefrontal lobes, and increase in the volume of the amygdala. These volume changes are directly related to the degree of depression.
2, Insomnia
If depression is not treated for a long time, it will cause the patient to have long-term insomnia symptoms. Poor sleep can affect the brain, leading to dizziness and memory loss. sleep disorder is a trigger for many other mental illnesses, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder , schizophrenia , etc.
3. It will cause personality distortion
. After depression occurs, people will experience serious cognitive distortion. Cognitive distortion refers to a way of thinking that inaccurate or wrongly recognizes facts. These inaccurate and unrealistic ideas are often negative, which triggers unhealthy emotions.
4, which will lead to a serious decrease in work efficiency and quality of life
The thinking, movement, speaking ability and actions of patients will become slow. After suffering from depression, it is difficult for technicians or white-collar workers to do their daily work, let alone be creative. The grades of students who are good at studying in daily life have dropped significantly. Many patients said when talking about their subjective experience that their whole mind is like a bucket of paste.
5. Induce physical disease
Although depression is logically a psychological disease, not organic and cannot harm the body's organs, it will induce physical diseases.
Therefore, it is best to treat it in time after depression occurs. The most scientific way to treat depression is drugs + psychological treatment + physical treatment.
Depression is a gradual development process. When you find mild symptoms, you must learn to self-regulate and consult a psychologist if necessary.Don’t feel that depression is a mental illness that dares to seek medical treatment and bury it in your heart. As the disease develops, it will not only increase the difficulty of treatment, but will also cause harm to people around you.
Therefore, if you feel that the depression level of yourself or the important others around you is gradually aggravated, and it takes a long time and cannot be removed by your own strength, you must seek medical treatment in time and take formal measures to control your symptoms.
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