Some people say that people with depression are likely to commit suicide, but this is not true. But in the case of long-term and severe depression, the danger is much more than simply having suicidal tendencies!
1, appear depressed state of mind
If you are depressed for a long time, it is very easy for you to have negative, pessimistic or low self-esteem psychology, feeling that everything is difficult and pessimistic and despairing about the future.
2.Decreased function
Patients who are depressed for a long time usually feel difficulty in thinking, and the efficiency of mental work is significantly reduced. In the clinic, there are many patients who have been suffering from depression for a long time talk about their experience, saying that they feel the whole mind is very confused and basically lose the ability to think logically.
3.Impact on the brain
It leads to dizziness, memory loss and sleep disorders. According to authoritative data, the proportion of depressed patients with these three symptoms is as high as 97%, 93% and 99% respectively. The crux of the problem is that the concentration of substances called catecholamines in the brain increases, resulting in the contraction and thinning of brain blood vessels, making the brain tissue ischemic and hypoxic, which leads to dizziness and other adverse symptoms.
4.Sleep disorder
Patients who are depressed for a long time will often have insomnia or sleep time disorders and other conditions. Depressed patients wake up early, especially in the early morning from 3 to 5 o’clock, when the possibility of suicide is also the greatest because of the patient’s depressed mood.
5, induce physical illness
Once a person suffers from depression, the likelihood of him suffering from heart disease will be 2 times more than normal, and the probability of suffering a stroke will increase 3 times. Because depression will cause changes in the human autonomic nervous system, the main clinical manifestations are loss of appetite, weight loss, loss of sexual desire, constipation, impotence, amenorrhea, weakness and other typical symptoms.
6.Shorten life expectancy
After a long-term study, it was found that the mortality rate caused by depression leading to dysfunction is even as high as cancer, diabetes and heart disease people.
7.Increase the burden of family
Patients with long-term depression have great mood swings and are more fragile and sensitive psychologically. Some trivial things in life are likely to cause great psychological pressure on the patient. And at this time, once the patient has suicidal tendencies, it is bound to be life-threatening, and this practice, too, will cause a fatal blow to their families and bring a huge burden.
Reference.
[1]Liu Dan. Depression [J]. China Medicine Herald.2021(1):70