Everyone thinks that depression is far, far away from us, yet depression is always around us. Many people who don’t understand it think depression is nothing more than feeling disappointed with life, being in a bad mood, being sick and pretentious, but in reality depression is when even though your life is going very well, you still feel desperate all the time and want to die from the pain. This feeling is like every cell in your body is making a sad sound, every nerve is bleeding, and your body is like two armies facing each other. Many people who suffer from depression mostly look cheerful and lively, yet behind every smile they have, there are countless impulses to commit suicide. What is depression? Depression, also known as depressive disorder, is the main type of mood disorder. Clinical depression can be seen to be disproportionate to its situation, and the depression of mood can range from sullenness to grief, low self-esteem and depression, and even pessimism and anxiety, and there can be suicide attempts or behaviors; even wood stiffness; some cases have significant anxiety and motor agitation; severe cases can have hallucinations, delusions and other psychotic symptoms. Each episode lasts at least 2 weeks, or even several years, and most cases have a tendency to have recurrent episodes, most episodes can be remitted, some may have residual symptoms or become chronic. Why do people get depressed? There are many possible causes of depression, including imbalances in brain hormones, neurotransmitters, genetic predisposition, heredity, stressful life events, medications, and substance abuse problems. In general, we believe that some or all of these factors work together to cause depression, so having depression is not due to a bad personality or weak will, it is just our brain being sick. What are the symptoms of depression? 1. Problems with sleep, insomnia/sleepiness. There is a study that says there are three stages of insomnia. The first is that you have difficulty falling asleep, which then progresses to waking up repeatedly during the night, and the third stage is early awakening unable to sleep, i.e. you can fall asleep but wake up at 3 or 4 am, but can only be awake until dawn. 2. Fatigue and lack of energy. Depression, rudely speaking, it is a physical disease. When you have depression, the chemicals in your body change, making you feel fatigued and weak. Some depressed people sleep 22 hours a day and still feel tired, and also, therefore, tell the depressed visitor, Go for it! Go exercise! Go make friends! Be strong! You can do it! That’s like telling a patient with a broken bone, “Go! Go for a run! Grit your teeth! You can do it! Exactly the same. 3. Negative thinking and low self-esteem. No one wants to think negatively, and depressed visitors will try hard to be more positive, and even beat themselves up for being “negative”. But this is a symptom of depression, more broadly speaking, it is also the result of the chemical action in the body, which is actually beyond the depressed visitor’s ability to control. 4. Slowed thinking and lack of concentration. It’s like you’ve been working overtime for three days and nights. You feel the same with dizziness, extra slow thinking, and how you can’t concentrate. 5. Change in behavior (irritability/slow movement). People with depression tend to have behavioral changes that are observable to bystanders: actions and thinking become slow. The emphasis here is on the “changes” that are visible to others. 6. Feelings of emptiness and worthlessness. People have a little misunderstanding about depression, they always think that depressed people are “sad” and “sad” every day, but they are not. Some depressed people are more accurately described as feeling empty and worthless, and the opposite of “depressed” is not “happy” but “alive”. 7. Loss of interest in everything around you. The point is to lose interest in everything. We usually ask our clients, “What do you like to do during the week? What do you like to do on weekends? The typical depressed visitor will say, I used to go to the ball game, but now I can’t get interested …… seems to be uninterested in anything anymore. 8. There are thoughts of death. The thought of death will recur, when you have all the above symptoms, the loss of “vitality”, it is difficult to have interest in life again.