How to treat depression?

As a psychiatrist, I treat depression like all diseases. As we all know, the suicide rate of depression is very high, but now a large part of friends can't accept that they have depression, and they don't know much about it, so they can't receive treatment in time. Let's look at depression.

Depression is mainly manifested as depression, unpleasant experience and decreased energy. Gradually depressed mood will affect life. The whole person becomes silent, unwilling to contact people, upset and anxious, unable to do anything, unable to sleep well at night, listless during the day, gradually losing interest in life, and even having suicidal thoughts. Some patients will also feel unwell, whole body uncomfortable, and whole body uncomfortable.

Depression doesn't suddenly become so severe. Not all patients with depression will suddenly have suicidal thoughts, and the disease is also formed little by little. Many patients do not pay attention to their emotions at the beginning of the disease, or go to the doctor because they are sick. According to hearsay, they find their own remedies, which not only can't cure the disease, but make it worse. If treated in time in the process of disease evolution, the prognosis of depression is very good, and normal life and study can be completely restored.

Clinically, I often meet such patients. I said his condition was an emotional problem, possibly depression. The patient reacted badly. "I'm not a mental illness. Isn't depression a mental illness? " There is still a big misunderstanding about mental illness. What people call mental illness, we collectively call it mental illness. Mental illness is a big category, including many kinds of diseases, some light and some heavy. Depression is just one of them. Sleep disorders and anxiety are both mental diseases. Everyone has life pressure, and normal people are in a bad mood. It's not terrible to get depressed. The terrible thing is that it is useless to face it correctly and avoid it blindly. Therefore, a correct understanding of depression is the most important.

Depression is the mental illness with the highest suicide rate in the world, but the cause of depression is still unclear, which may be related to the following factors: but it is certain that the pathogenesis of depression involves many factors such as biology, psychology and social environment.

1. Biological factors mainly involve heredity, neurobiochemistry, neuroendocrine and nerve regeneration.

2. The psychological quality closely related to psychological factors and depression is the personality characteristics before illness, such as depressive temperament.

3. Social and environmental factors encounter stressful life events in the process of growing up, which is an important trigger for the occurrence of clinically significant depressive episodes. But these factors do not work alone, but lead to the occurrence of diseases under the joint action of many factors. At present, it is emphasized that the interaction between heredity and environment or stress factors and the time when this interaction occurs have an important influence on the occurrence of depression.

characteristic symptoms

1. Depression is mainly manifested as significant and lasting depression, depression and pessimism. Lighter people are unhappy, have no sense of happiness, and their interest declines. Heavy people are miserable, pessimistic, desperate and dying. The typical patient's depression mood has the rhythm change of morning weight and night light.

2. Mental retardation can be seen clinically, such as decreased active speech, obviously slower speech speed, low voice and difficulty in answering. In severe cases, communication cannot be carried out smoothly.

3. The clinical manifestations of decreased will activity are slow behavior, passive life, laziness, unwillingness to do things, unwillingness to contact with people around, and avoidance of social interaction. In severe cases, even the physiological needs of eating and drinking, personal hygiene and so on are ignored, and even they develop into silence, immobility and no eating, which is called "depressive stupor". Severe patients are often accompanied by negative suicidal thoughts or behaviors.

Some patients also have cognitive impairment, such as recent memory loss, attention disorder and prolonged reaction time. And physical symptoms, such as sleep disorder, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, constipation and so on.

In the face of depressed patients, we should not look at them with a discriminatory eye, because they themselves know that they are different from others. This is because the estrangement between friends and lovers will only worsen his condition.

Try to open their hearts slowly, communicate with them more and give them some warmth.

For a long time, there has been controversy in academic circles about whether depression is a mental disease or a physical disease. Depression is a comprehensive manifestation of a huge system, which includes both physiological basis and psychological hotbed. I myself am a typical example.

I was born depressed, sensitive and sad. At the same time, the unsmooth growth path also aggravated the occurrence of depression.

In society, depression is still a shame. As a psychological counselor, I have been trying to tell visitors that depression is not terrible, and people with depression are not a group of monsters. On the contrary, depression is more like a gentle reminder in our lives.

If we say that our life is a big river, it always flows from the inside out in ordinary days. Suddenly one day, the storm broke the peace of life. One day, you start to feel unhappy. You often feel that you are nothing. You can't find the meaning of life You begin to fall into negative emotions such as sadness, loneliness, helplessness and self-blame. The food you used to like, you don't like it now, and the hobby you used to be obsessed with is no longer interesting. Your memory begins to decline, your thinking becomes dull, and you begin to be unable to express yourself flexibly. If this situation lasts for more than two weeks, it is likely to be diagnosed as depression.

So, you see, you are so close to depression, no wonder we say that this is an era of depression.

But depression is also meaningful. Just like the river of life is blocked, it can't flow out anymore, eating into people's spiritual world. Depression, like the diversion of a river, gently reminds you that it is time to stop. It's time to stop. You may need to rethink who you are, where you come from and where you are going to live.

If you are willing to seek help and live in harmony with depression, you will find that depression will find an exit with you again in the maze of spirit, and your life will be smoother.

Many people are afraid of or reject depression, in fact, they want to stay in the quiet stream of life forever and spend their lives safely. But a river without storms and stormy waves is just a dead quagmire.

When I found the exit, I tried to be born again, and at the same time I became a psychological counselor, able to work for more heartbreaks.

People often ask me, what kind of life do you want? I like a poem by American writer Carver very much. This poem was written before he died, and it is also his epitaph. He said:

Did you get what you wanted in your life?

I see.

What do you want?

I want to love, I want to be loved,

I want to call myself "dear".

Depression is the fourth largest disease in the world, which causes double harm to people's body and mind, and recovery is long and difficult. In China, a large number of people still think that depression is far away and unfamiliar, so it's time to wake up. Because the development and intervention of mental health in China is a hundred years later than that in the west, if there is deep depression, the cure rate is about 40% under the intervention of western scientific psychotherapy, while in China it is only about 8%. Because of depression, suicide tragedies often happen around us. In the face of depression, we should wake up, face it, face it and solve it.

First of all, we must figure out what depression is. Any disease has its unique law of occurrence and development, and depression is no exception. The early symptoms of depression are low and persistent, they don't like communication, they are not interested in anything, and they are accompanied by pessimism. At this time, we must pay enough attention, early intervention, early treatment and early recovery. Patients with depression in the middle and late stage are slow-minded, slow-moving, accompanied by communication barriers, irregular sleep, decreased physical function, decreased cognitive ability, pessimistic and world-weary, and suicidal.

It should be said that depression is both near and far from any of us, so we should be vigilant but not pessimistic. Modern people's life pressure is relatively high, and the whole social environment is running at a high speed. The pressure from all sides is unbearable. Humans have survived for thousands of years, and there are no insurmountable difficulties. While paying attention to your own organic diseases, you should pay more attention to mental health and make your life better.

According to the data of the World Health Organization, depression is currently the fourth largest disease in the world, and the prevalence rate is gradually increasing, and it is expected to become the second largest by 2020.

At present, the awareness of medical treatment and prevention of depression in China is still low, and less than 10% of patients have received relevant professional treatment. At the same time, the onset of depression is gradually becoming younger.

Therefore, the prevention and treatment of depression has become extremely important, and it has long been listed as the focus of mental health work in China.

Depression is actually a disease, which should be treated correctly. Severe cases should be treated in time.

Nowadays, many people do not have a correct understanding of depression. They think that patients have nothing to look for, have nothing to do when they are full, think too much all the time, and even laugh at depressed patients!

First of all, we have to get through ourselves. Depression is not terrible, what is terrible is not paying attention. Denying yourself and being afraid of being laughed at will make you more miserable.

Who hasn't been sick? Occasionally, physiological and psychological factors and endocrine disorders are normal!

If your family and friends can understand, talk to them more, explain your situation and let them spend more time with you.

If family and friends don't understand, you can talk to a counselor. This is also the way to cure the disease. Psychotherapists are also doctors. It is normal to spend money to see a doctor when you are sick.

In foreign countries, many people have their own psychological counselors, and they talk regularly. Even if the symptoms are not serious, you should consult regularly to prevent problems before they happen.

And sometimes chatting with strangers will be more open, so you can spit it out.

If it is depression caused by work, you can consider adjusting your work intensity and work content. Don't give yourself too much work pressure, even if you change jobs again. After all, the body comes first! Health is the capital of revolution!

Nowadays, there are many patients with postpartum depression, and they especially need the companionship and enlightenment of their husbands, family members and friends. It is understandable to feel that everything in the past will change after giving birth to a child. There are also biological and physiological reasons, endocrine changes in the body and other factors.

If it is depression caused by life reasons. Then you can consider reasonable arrangement of work, make up for some spare time and divert your attention.

You can even do housework, raise flowers and plants, adjust your mentality and divert your attention from work.

Or add some physical exercise, outdoor activities, travel, reading and so on. To adjust yourself!

In short, depression is not ridiculous, so we should pay attention to it. It is a chronic disease and should be treated and adjusted as soon as possible. It's like a tumor. I didn't notice it at first, but it's troublesome in the later stage.

It is right to realize that you are depressed and you can adjust it intentionally.

I also hope that our family members and friends around us can correctly understand depression. More companionship and encouragement, less neglect and ridicule.

Health is the capital of revolution, and happiness is the most important thing in the long road of life!

If our social relations constantly compete with each other, then many depression will be the inevitable result. In the process of accumulating superiority, we inevitably accumulate frustration and fear of losing superiority.