Early symptoms of depression include sleep disturbances, which mainly include early awakening, usually 2-3 hours earlier than usual, and the inability to fall back to sleep after waking, but cannot be used as a major symptom to determine depression. If the manifestation of early awakening occurs occasionally, it should also be mainly considered as caused by non-depressive factors. There are many reasons for early awakening, such as long-term disturbance of work and rest, poor sleep environment, or sleeping too early, which can affect the quality of sleep and reduce the length of sleep, thus causing early awakening. For people with stressful life and neurasthenia, early awakening can also occur due to mental tension caused by excessive mental stress. In addition, some people such as the elderly and menopausal women, due to changes in the level of hormone secretion in the body, can also affect sleep and cause early awakening. The above-mentioned types of early awakening can be gradually relieved by lifting the triggers, and we also need to pay attention to adjusting good habits, exercising properly and maintaining a positive and optimistic attitude to reduce the occurrence of early awakening. Therefore, early awakening alone is not a symptom to determine whether it is early depression, but can be judged by other typical symptoms of depression: 1, sleep disorders: in addition to early awakening, some patients will also show difficulty in falling asleep, sleep is not deep, sleep quality is poor, a few patients will also show excessive sleep, increased appetite and weight gain; 2, psychological changes: can be manifested as Obvious and persistent depressed mood, pessimism, helplessness, etc., also accompanied by anxiety, nervousness, irritability, irritability, etc., some patients’ psychological state has the characteristics of morning heavy and evening light; 3, thinking and consciousness disorders: mainly manifested as slow reaction, reduced speech, difficulty in thinking about problems, reduced learning ability, as well as slow action, passivity, laziness, social avoidance, etc.; 4, negative attitude: pessimistic thoughts will sprout negative, hopeless attitude. In severe cases of depression, suicidal thoughts or behaviors may occur; 5. Other: mainly manifested as delusions or hallucinations, delusions of victimization and delusions of guilt may appear in line with the state of mind. If you suspect that you or others around you have symptoms of depression, you need to see a psychiatrist promptly. If you are diagnosed with depression, you can usually achieve better treatment results after correctly understanding your psychological problems and actively cooperating with your doctor.