Depression is a psychiatric disorder that occurs in all age groups, and people with high work stress are the vulnerable group. The main symptoms are depressed mood, reduced interest, pessimism, slow thinking, lack of initiative, self-blame, poor diet and sleep, general discomfort, and in severe cases, suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Although there are 26 million people suffering from depression in China, the number of people who do not seek medical attention is as high as 62%. People who have signs of depression do not take it seriously at first and let the condition get worse, then they hesitate to go to the doctor, but most of them do not go to the doctor for fear of being talked about and feeling embarrassed. So they suffer everything alone, as if a dumb person is asking for help.
Not to mention the next person, most people’s understanding of depression is still stuck in the mood is bad to think too much, think that open guidance will be good. Depression is a disease, not just a bad mood.
Of course it does not mean that once there is a relative or friend around who has depression should be treated differently, if excessive attention is paid, it will give the patient a sense of alienation and make them rightfully treat themselves as patients. The curiosity or sympathy of some unrelated people towards them may be regarded as ridicule by the patient and will aggravate the disease even more.
The right attitude to treat should be moderate, not to make a fuss that they have a serious illness, nor to be angry or indifferent.
To be able to understand the typical symptoms of depression can not only review themselves in a timely manner, but also give timely help when problems arise in the people around us. Let’s first understand what are the 8 major symptoms of depression.
1.Depressed state of mind
This is also the most important feature of depression patients, and is also widely understood by everyone. Those who are less ill will experience poor mood, sadness, and moping all day long. Those who are seriously ill will experience pessimism, despair, and eventually suicidal tendencies.
2. Low self-esteem
After suffering from depression, people tend to devalue themselves excessively and look at their present, past and future with a critical, negative and denial attitude. Feeling useless, the future is dark, there will be a strong sense of self-blame, guilt, uselessness, worthlessness, helplessness, and in serious cases, there can be self-culpability and suspicion. This is why depressed people are usually at risk of suicide.
3.Lack of pleasure
Patients will lose interest in everything in daily life and gradually lose the ability to study and work. They no longer experience pleasure in all kinds of recreational activities, and they just want to stay in their homes all day long, and they are not even interested in eating. Severe cases will refuse to socialize and alienate relatives and friends.
4.Continuous fatigue with no obvious reason
Not only psychological problems may occur, but also physical fatigue, and you may feel overwhelmed in everything you do. Lack of enthusiasm and initiative in life and work, even for their own food and drink can not take care of.
5, sexual function is reduced
Because of the influence of psychological factors, there will be a decrease in sexual desire, including impotence in men, women appear sexy lack of.
6.Sleep disorder
Most of the depressed patients will be accompanied by sleep disorders. Especially in the latter half of the night to early morning, it is very easy to wake up from sleep and difficult to continue to sleep, wake up in a depressed mood is difficult to extricate themselves, so suicide mostly occurs in the early morning.
7, have strong suicidal thoughts
Inner very painful, pessimistic, desperate, feel that life is a burden, not worth staying, to die for relief, can produce strong suicidal thoughts and behavior.
8. Diurnal variation
The mood of the disease will have obvious changes with time, will be in the early morning or morning into the mood of the low period, in the afternoon or evening will be slightly better.
Depression as a psychosomatic disease, in addition to medication, can also be psychological intervention.
Depressed people, because they are pessimistic in their dealings, will attribute the cause of negative or failed events to their own problems, while for positive things they will instead attribute them to other people’s, objective factors. The average person, on the other hand, will attribute the failure to others and the success to their own internal factors. So depressed patients and ordinary people have completely opposite attribution styles, so explaining attributions to the patient can be helpful for the condition.
In addition to interventions given externally, the patient’s own efforts can also help to control the condition. The first step is not to set goals for oneself that are difficult to achieve, but to break down one’s tasks into as many easily achievable parts as possible. And avoid psychological stress by facing up to your condition and not taking on too much work or responsibility.
Don’t allow yourself to make too many major decisions, such as things like transferring jobs or divorce. Don’t rush into events, write down your feelings, then analyze and recognize them, face up to the negative manifestations within, and then find ways to get rid of it.