1, 80% of suicides suffer from depression
Winter and spring are the high incidence of depression, and too little sunlight is one of the culprits. However, in the northern part of the summer, the excessive sunlight makes people irritable, and the number of depression patients is not similar to the high incidence of winter and spring.
Human mood is affected by three major factors, namely, physiological state, environmental factors and cognitive evaluation.
Depression is all around us. According to a recent survey, when mild depression is included, the prevalence of depression is about 11% worldwide. In Beijing, 3 out of every 1000 people are clearly diagnosed with depression. Depression has become the number one disease of the human psyche recognized by the global medical community.
Recently many places have reported one after another, middle school high school or college students jumped to their death, the news is very shocking to the public. According to the students and parents afterwards, these students had light thoughts before they died. And depression is one of the main reasons for their light-heartedness.
Here I want to tell you: most depressed people’s suicides can be avoided, but why do some of them choose the road of no return? Here is an example for reference and illustration. A young Hui graduated from a foreign language department of a famous university in Beijing. She was always overwhelmed by inexplicable sadness every day, and always felt tired of living and bored of living. After her parents’ hard persuasion, Xiaohui came to our hospital for treatment. After a cycle of treatment, Hui’s face returned to its usual smile and she was able to work and live normally.
However, due to her fast-paced and stressful work, Xiaohui forgot our advice – to take her medication every day on time to consolidate for a period of time, and to seek timely consultation with her doctor. Due to her discontinuation of medication, Xiaohui’s disease returned a few months later and she quit her job as a result. Can be cured again less than six months, Xiao Hui’s mood again into a slump. A few more tosses Xiaowei completely desperate, she chose a road of no return.
Depression is actually the mind cold, just like the flu, hypertension, is able to effectively cure, according to clinical statistics, the complete cure rate of depression up to 60% ~ 80%. Patients like Xiaohui can avoid another attack if they take their medication and go to the hospital regularly for psychotherapy or guidance.
However, such a completely controllable disease, due to our people’s lack of awareness of mental illness, prejudice, fear of disease and other human factors, so that this curable disease is increasingly playing a human “super killer”. According to the World Health Organization, 200,000 people die of suicide in China every year, and 80% of them suffer from depression. In the international symposium on depression, medical experts pointed out that by 2020, depression is likely to become, in addition to heart disease, the largest burden on the social economy of a disease.
2. Ignorance is the number one accomplice of depression
A decade ago, the popular street song “Recently a little bit annoyed, a little bit annoyed, a little bit annoyed.” Now, due to the accelerated pace of society, it has become impatient, realistic, money and power first, family, love and friendship have become indifferent, people are more often referred to as “pressure, confusion, helplessness, helplessness.” At the same time, the desire for true love, call for true love. The song also speaks to the mood of most people in the city, always take the indifferent flirt mentality, but in fact, it is a cry for help to the people around you, a cry for help from the help of care.
Psychologists believe that annoyance is not simply an unpleasant mood, it develops to a certain extent, in the case of unattended attention may lead to depression, the seriousness of its mortality rate of up to 30%.
In a health survey of 659 urbanites, more than 60% of them said they were “a bit annoyed” and 23% of them showed obvious depressive symptoms. It is reasonable to say that with so many depressed people, there should be a lot of people seeking medical treatment in psychiatric departments or psychological clinics, but only a few of them actually go to hospitals with the mindset of treating depression. Zhu Liqi, a psychological researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out that most people are currently unaware of the serious dangers of depression. People who are depressed tend to get stuck in their own narrow little world, and as a result, the sorrow is added to the sorrow. The people around them also tend to think that everyone will have bad moods at times, thus delaying the best time for treatment and leading to a tragic end. If early detection and treatment are achieved, depression will not cause serious harm to people.
In addition, because depression is a psychological disease, many patients are often afraid to go to psychiatric hospitals or psychological clinics to receive treatment because of the face. Individuals who can’t stand the torment of the disease just go to the drugstore and buy some medicine to cope with it. The popularity of antidepressants in the metropolis has made businessmen earn a fortune, but psychologists have issued a warning that psychiatric drugs should not be abused because each person’s condition and symptoms are different. The best way to deal with depression is to find a psychiatrist or psychologist and receive a combination of regular medication and psychotherapy is the effective way.
3.How to prevent depression
The root cause and pathogenesis of depression is still inconclusive. Genetic factors, social environment, natural environment and other physical diseases may trigger depression. The main reason for the obvious increase of depression in modern people is the social environment factors, modern society is fast-paced, life is stressful, competition is intense, such as layoff, employment and promotion, lost love or marriage breakup and other heart tension everywhere. Each person’s psychological self-regulation ability is limited, once the above problems are not handled well, can not go out of the misunderstanding of the distress of life, may fall into emotional depression and can not extricate themselves.
There is an old Chinese saying that heart disease also needs heart medicine. Maintaining a good and healthy state of mind is the key to preventing depression. The following measures are generally recognized by the medical profession to prevent depression.
1.Understand your own strengths and weaknesses, evaluate yourself correctly, and never set yourself some goals that are difficult to reach.
2, admit the reality, face the reality, not to escape. (Facing is not necessarily painful, escape does not relieve.)
3.Discover your own talents and interests. Try to do some physical exercise, find friends to drink tea and chat, listen to music, moderate indulgence can also be.
4.Try to get in touch with people more, not behind closed doors or alone.
5, may wish to write down their feelings, and then analyze and recognize it, belong to the depression performance, find ways to get rid of it.
6, eliminate prejudice, not to seek psychological help for shame. Really can not get rid of the bad mood, promptly see a psychiatrist or go to the hospital psychiatric treatment.
7, receive comprehensive treatment: a combination of medication and psychotherapy. Antidepressant drugs generally take 2~3 weeks to be effective, for mild and moderate depression, psychotherapy generally includes cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, etc. For severe self-injury and suicide, electroconvulsive therapy can be taken to control the condition as soon as possible, after the symptoms in the acute stage are controlled does not mean the end of treatment, the treatment and consolidation in the recovery period is very important. Taking medication should be a long-term process, possibly a year, several years or more. This is also to prevent a relapse of the disease. In addition, family and social care and support are especially important for the recovery of depressed patients.
4.Clinical manifestations of depression
Depression is an unpleasant experience of low mood. But depression is not only that, it can also be characterized by a decline in interest, deprivation and a lack of pleasure. With the core of depression, it will extend to cognitive, behavioral and physiological aspects and produce corresponding symptoms, such as low self-evaluation, self-blame and self-guilt, decreased attention and memory, slow thinking, slow speech and behavior, peripheral discomfort, chest tightness and breathlessness, palpitations, sweating, decreased appetite and libido, lack of energy and so on, and even the concept and behavior of self-injury and even suicide.