Without realizing it, we find ourselves surrounded by people who suffer from depression, which may include our loved ones, friends or even ourselves. Depression, like other illnesses, does not appear for no reason, there is always some specific reason for it. The problem of depression has seriously disturbed our normal life to the point that it has to be solved. To solve depression, we need to go back to the source and understand what the nature of depression is. The essence of depression needs to be elaborated from two aspects: physiological and psychological, only in this way can we understand more clearly what is the essence of depression? First, the physiological nature of depression, depression is different from other diseases in the body, it is not contagious, there is no organic lesion, and there is no unique cause. It is a state of mind disorder caused by imbalance of neurotransmitter uptake, neurotransmitters [including 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-
HT), norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA)] is low causing depression, and elevated is antidepressant, but this is only the monoamine hypothesis of depression, and its true etiology is still in the process of continuous exploration. Second, the psychological nature of depression, this depression in Chinese medicine, known as emotional disease, is actually too much thought, liver depression, liver qi stagnation, resulting in depression. Simply put, it is a long time in the bad mood, and do not know how to exhale their bad emotions, stagnant in the body of bad emotions, it is easy to induce depression. If a person has an optimistic attitude, happy mood, where will get any depression. In essence, depression is not terrible, it is a curable disease, but you need to start from two aspects: one is the physical conditioning treatment, try to make the neurotransmitter uptake to get a balance; the other is the need to receive psychological treatment to channel the bad emotional state, you can make it back to normal.