Everyone must have heard of a mental illness called “depression” in various movies, TV shows and news.
According to relevant authoritative statistics, there are about 350 million depression patients in the world, and the prevalence of depression in China is about 2.1%.
Don’t think that depression is very far away from us, the smile is probably just the patient’s disguise!
The so-called depression is actually a mental illness. In addition to obvious and persistent In addition to sexual depression, there are many other physical symptoms, and in severe cases, even suicidal thoughts or suicidal behavior.
If there is no timely treatment and understanding of family members, the patient will eventually go to a dead end. A related research survey shows that the suicide rate of depressed patients is about 20 times higher than that of the general population.
Then the question is, what are the symptoms of depression? Which ones?
1. Depressed mood: The main manifestation of depression is actually a prolonged depression. In the initial stages, the patient may simply be in a bad mood and easily upset, or feeling very frustrated and unhappy.
Next, as the patient’s condition continues to progress, symptoms such as sorrowful, worried, and unhappy will appear again, followed by complete pessimism and despair, yes. Everything loses confidence, and the feeling of loss and pessimism is infinitely amplified;
2, Lack of interest: In addition to the persistent depression, the patient’s heart is actually changing quietly, and his interest is gradually lost.
I gradually lose interest in the things I was originally interested in, and in severe cases, even uninterested, more and more unwilling to participate in normal activities, I am not interested in anything or anything. With a pessimistic and inferior attitude, completely close yourself up;
3. Insomnia and early awakening: According to relevant clinical data and surveys, most depression patients have symptoms such as insomnia and early awakening in the early stage of the disease.
Every night, the patient will be wrapped in pessimism and can’t sleep at night. Even if you can go to sleep, you should wake up about 2-3 hours earlier than usual, you can’t go back to sleep after waking up;
4. Self-denial: The patient’s self-evaluation is very low, with obvious inferiority complex, Believing you can’t do anything well and worthless and your future is bleak.
In severe cases, as long as there are some small mistakes around them, even if they have nothing to do with them, the patient will often arbitrarily think that it is caused by themselves, and even more will think that they have heavy sins. ;
5. Emotional loss: In addition to personal emotions In addition to being overly pessimistic, patients may also experience emotional loss. For example, patients are becoming more and more reluctant to contact the surrounding people, and they are only enclosed in their own space every day.
Some patients will also accompany with varying degrees of emotional and social impairment, gradually alienate and stop contacting good friends, and even > became more and more apathetic towards family members and completely cut off social interaction.
Especially in the early stage of depression, when patients talk with friends or family members, they will gradually lose the desire to communicate and talk with others after they do not get any understanding from the other party.
All in all, in the early stage of depression, the most typical symptom is persistent emotion and low mood, and no matter what you do, this mood will continue or recur.
If you have similar symptoms recently, and it has affected your social life and life, you need to be vigilant. This is likely to be a sign that depression has found itself, and it is necessary to seek medical examination in time.