Among people with depression, spring is the most common time for suicide, with statistics showing that 50% of depressed people are suicidal in the spring. The occurrence of suicidal behavior is generally instantaneous, but the basis of the behavior requires a long process of accumulation, and we are often informed from interviews with many people who have been rescued from suicide that the cause of the eventual desperate path is often not necessarily something that is too big for the common person, but it is this last straw that crushes the camel and kills many young lives. Why for similar difficulties, setbacks, accidents, most people can choose to calmly or at least comply with the treatment, while a few people choose to take a radical approach, we know that this is closely related to each person’s psychological quality and ability to withstand.
At present, the causes of depression, a mental illness, are inconclusive. While people generally feel that depression is only caused by psychological reasons, Harvard Medical doctors believe that there are many causes of depression, including the brain’s misregulation of the state of mind, genetic vulnerability, stressful events in life, and problems with medication and drug use. Some scholars in China also believe that depression is not simply a psychological problem, but is also related to pathological changes in certain human organs and tissue structures.
For long-term depression medication should be adhered to, the most important role is to prevent the sudden outbreak of internal factors. On a day-to-day basis, in addition to medication, for many “suspected” depressed friends, the best means of support is still active care.
7 categories of people are the focus of the onset
1. History of psychiatric and psychological disorders
Spring is a season of high recurrence of mental illness, so patients and relatives who have a history of similar illnesses must pay attention to control the patient’s emotions, once they find their thinking, language, behavior changes, you need to seek help from a professional doctor as soon as possible.
2. Family history of heredity
The probability of mental illness in family genetic inheritance is very high, and family members with a history of such illness need to pay attention to the possibility that their loved ones have high mood swings or long periods of depression or sadness, which is the trigger for the onset of mental illness.
3. Recently experienced a major negative event
Perhaps it is a bad academic, career, family or relationship, or perhaps the death of a friend or loved one. In spring, in a special period such as the Qingming Festival, if the patient encounters such a blow and cannot channel and control his or her emotions well, it is easy for an emotional illness to occur.
4. Patients who stop or reduce their medication during this period
Some patients with psychological or psychiatric disorders are taking medication, the patient’s family or their own inexperienced, think that the previous period of clinical symptoms have been well controlled, so without seeking the advice of a professional doctor to reduce or stop medication, which is very dangerous behavior, is likely to cause the aggravation of the disease, and make the previous treatment before the work is abandoned.
5, machinery working too long
Such as driving a car, assembly line operations, repetitive movements, etc. can trigger the ankylosing mental state. The most direct manifestation of the tonic state is the appearance of manic and compulsive symptoms. Especially students in the pre-secondary and high school examinations, they study even more than 12 hours a day, and at the same time bear huge psychological pressure, and are also at high risk of developing emotional and mental diseases. This period of work and rest, timely rest and emotional regulation is a very good way to avoid this type of disease.
6.Adolescents with low stress resistance
One of the core reasons they choose to commit suicide is essentially a lack of understanding of the meaning of life, which in reality is a lack of education, parents and teachers should do more “life and death education” to young people.
7.Women in menopause
This group of people is mainly due to endocrine changes that lead to anxiety, depression and other physical reactions, and if they are stimulated externally, it may eventually lead to excessive behavior.
What are the symptoms of depression?
1.Low mood
The main manifestation is significant and persistent depressed emotion, depression and pessimism. In mild cases, the depression is characterized by sullenness, unpleasantness and loss of interest, while in severe cases, the depression is characterized by pain, pessimism and despair, and life is worse than death. The typical patient’s depressed state of mind has a rhythmical change of heavy in the morning and light at night. On the basis of depressed mood, patients will have a lower self-evaluation, a sense of uselessness, hopelessness, helplessness and worthlessness, often accompanied by self-blame and self-culpability, and in severe cases of depression, delusions of guilt and paranoia, and some patients may have hallucinations.
2.Sluggish thinking
Patients have slow thinking, slow reaction, closed thinking, and feel that “the brain is like a rusty machine” and “the brain is like a layer of glue”. Clinically, the active speech is reduced, the speed of speech is significantly slowed, the voice is low, and it is difficult to answer, and in severe cases, communication cannot be carried out smoothly.
3.Decreased volitional activity
You should be careful and vigilant when you have hypoactive will. Because patients with depression have a significant and persistent inhibition of volitional activity. Clinical behavior is slow, life is passive, lazy, do not want to do things, do not want to contact with people around the interaction, often sitting alone, or all day bed, closed door, living alone, distant friends and relatives, avoid social.
In severe cases, the patient may even disregard physiological needs such as eating, drinking and personal hygiene, and may even develop into non-verbal, non-moving, and non-eating, which is called “depressive rigidity”, but on careful mental examination, the patient still shows painful depression. Patients with anxiety may have symptoms such as fidgeting, finger grasping, hand rubbing or pacing around.
Severe cases are often accompanied by negative suicidal ideation or behavior. Negative pessimistic thoughts and self-blame, lack of self-confidence can lead to desperate thoughts, thinking that “ending one’s life is a relief”, “one is redundant in the world”, and can make suicide attempts develop into suicidal behavior. This is the most dangerous symptom of depression and should be vigilant.
4. Cognitive impairment
Studies have concluded that depressed patients have cognitive impairment. This is mainly manifested as decreased near memory, attention deficit, prolonged reaction time, increased alertness, poor abstract thinking, learning difficulties, poor language fluency, reduced spatial perception, eye-hand coordination and flexibility of thinking. Cognitive impairment leads to social dysfunction and affects the long-term prognosis of patients.
5.Physical symptoms
Physical symptoms include sleep disorders, frequent fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, and constipation. Pain in any part of the body, loss of libido, impotence, amenorrhea, etc. Physical complaints of discomfort may involve all organs, such as nausea, vomiting, heartburn, chest tightness, sweating, etc. Symptoms of autonomic dysfunction are also more common. The complaints of pre-morbid somatic disorders are usually aggravated.
Sleep disorders mainly manifest as early awakening, usually 2 to 3 hours earlier than usual, and inability to fall back to sleep after waking, which is characteristic for depressive episodes. Some present with difficulty falling asleep and not sleeping deeply; a few patients present with excessive sleep. Weight loss is not necessarily proportional to appetite loss; a few patients may have increased appetite and weight gain.