See a doctor if you are depressed and do not hide your illness from the doctor. The following discussion of whether a patient should tell someone if they are depressed clearly refers not to doctors, but to groups outside of health care. Despite the superficial social propaganda of an understanding attitude toward depression, there is still discrimination against depression in the deeper layers of people’s consciousness (for example, in the matter of promotion to administrative positions). Therefore, a patient suffering from depression should be his privacy and generally will not be told to people (hereinafter referred to as confidentiality), except as a last resort, when depression has to seek help or care, a limited disclosure may be required to a limited extent and for a limited period of time. 1. Open secrets: Some patients have a high social status and are quite accomplished, but are very depressed and cannot hold on and tough it out until they commit suicide. The cost of such secrecy is too great. Life is lost, what is the point of saving face? Depressive episodes in the drug treatment at the same time, such as heavy to hold on, should find reasons to rest, can find other reasons better, really can not find reasons, only to send depression or emotional disorders leave; compared with can not hold on and suicide, not to mention the leave to rest, or resignation and what is the matter? Once the depression is disclosed, it will only hurt once, and later you can fully enjoy the care that depression deserves. 2.Reveal the condition: When the patient’s depression is so severe that he must seek help, he can reveal his depressive condition to the other party when he decides that the other party can keep the secret for him and can get the other party’s help regularly; and when he decides that the other party cannot keep the secret for him, or the other party will not help him after knowing, of course, he will not tell the other party the secret. 3, reveal the state: when the patient’s depression is so heavy that he must seek help, judge that the other party will be able to help him, but may not be able to keep secrets for him, you can say I am depressed at this moment, but do not say I have depression, so that you can get help and not to give people the blame. When Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao, he even cried and said he wanted to break up, is this not a depressive mood? Who said Liu Bei was depressed? 4, keep secret the cost: some patients to keep their image in the crowd, on the treatment of depression drugs, and even hospital fees do not go to the unit reimbursement. I think it is understandable as long as they can afford it.