During the day or laughing, the evening is “net suppression cloud” time, emo emotions come and go, mood like the weather in March hot and cold. The pressure of reality makes many people can not find an outlet for their emotions, negative emotions are too much, people are becoming depressed, and over time will produce self-doubt “I am not suffering from depression?”
Depression is very common, it is not the same as depression, although both will make people fall into depression, but depression can be improved by adjusting the mood, failure, loss of love, the departure of loved ones will bring sadness and loneliness, resulting in depression, while depression is a disease, it will be persistently immersed in a low mood, the loss of interest in all the food around, and in severe cases, there may be self-harm, self-harm, depression, depression. In severe cases, there is a risk of self-harm and suicide.
In medical science, there is a standard way to identify depression, including three core symptoms and additional symptoms, usually a person with 2 core symptoms and additional symptoms, and this state lasts for more than 2 weeks, it is considered as mild depression; if there are 2 core symptoms and 3-4 additional symptoms, it is considered as moderate depression; if you find yourself with 3 core symptoms and 4 or more additional symptoms, it is considered as moderate depression. If you find yourself with 3 core symptoms and 4 or more additional symptoms, you are considered to be severely depressed.
Core symptoms
1.Depressed mood: you often feel “so bored”, “too lazy”, “life is so boring”, or you often feel hopeless, powerless, helpless, and think you are worthless. The negative emotions such as a sense of hopelessness, powerlessness, helplessness, and feeling worthless.
2. Loss of interest and pleasure in the outside world: preferring to stay at home, not wanting to go out, not liking social activities, not wanting to get in touch with people around you, wanting to lie in bed and not move, wanting to be alone more than going out.
3.Frequent fatigue and lack of energy: laziness, weakness, weakness of limbs, mental fatigue, etc.
Additional symptoms
1.Difficulty in concentrating: Regular and continuous decrease in reaction power, expression ability, logic understanding ability, and even affect life, the brain can not respond quickly, communication with others, often appear “slow” situation, the work or study tasks explained by the leadership can not be completed properly.
2.Loss of self-confidence: often treat events with the psychology of “I’m sorry, it’s all my fault”, “I’m useless”, etc., will be attributed to themselves, lose self-confidence, fear of other people’s eyes, low self-esteem, difficult to talk normally with others, etc.
3.Full of self-guilt and sense of worthlessness: In life, you can always hear others’ condemnation of yourself, and sometimes you may have hallucinations. Some people also have a sense of guilt, a great misunderstanding of themselves, believing that they have sinned deeply and have no contribution to this society, unable to help their relatives and friends around them, believing that their life has lost its meaning and is worthless, and that it is their own fault that has led to their disappointment in life.
4.Think the future is hopeless: no correct cognition of yourself, do not believe you can do any work, do not have hope for your future and future, feel that the future is lost and dark.
5.Have strong tendency to self-injury or suicide: “Everyone will be better off if I die” “They all want me to disappear”, such have obvious self-injury or suicide concept, or have already appeared such self-injury or suicide behavior.
6, the emergence of sleep disorders: the emergence of different degrees of insomnia, difficulty in falling asleep, dreamy, easy to wake up and other symptoms, and a long time immersed in this state, can not be changed.
7.Loss of appetite: Faced with their favorite food also feel no appetite, lose the desire for food, and consider eating as something dispensable.
Once the above emotions, and through self-judgment to get the conclusion of depression, be sure to seek timely medical attention, if only temporary depression, and did not develop into a disease, must be timely emotional regulation to avoid more serious, life has a lot of unsatisfactory, but also has a lot of lovely, more happy and easy things, perhaps you can make you happier ~
After all, life is so much, and you are so lovely!
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