Although depression is already a common depressive disorder, many people still have many misconceptions about depression. Many depressed patients could have benefited from treatment but delayed the treatment of the disease due to some misconceptions about depression. Therefore, here are a few common misconceptions about depression: Misconception 1: Since depression is a bad mood and depressed mood, it will get better if you go out and have a good time, and no treatment is needed If it is an ordinary, normal bad mood and unhappiness, generally speaking, the negative mood can be improved by going out and having a good time and shifting your attention. It is important to know that although the main symptom of depression is low mood, the degree and duration of this low mood are beyond the normal category of “bad mood”. This kind of low mood reached the scope of the disease, just by going out of town to relax can not be solved. Maybe going out for a relaxation trip can somehow relieve some of the psychological pressure brought by depression, so that you can divert your attention and ignore the pain caused by depression, and make you feel better in the short term. But it doesn’t get to the root of the problem. In particular, the biological factors that cause depression do not disappear through “distraction”, so the methods used by ordinary people to relax are not strictly speaking used to treat depression, especially moderate and severe depression. Myth 2: Only people with weak character and weak willpower can get depression Modern medical research has found that defects in individual biology are one of the most important factors leading to the onset of depression. Depression is just a common disease, as common and common as a cold and fever, and is not necessarily related to the weakness of the individual’s character. History is full of great people who suffered from depression but had strong personalities. For example, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, Roosevelt, the iron-fisted President of the United States during World War II, and Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, are all great men and women of world renown. This shows that suffering from depression does not mean that the individual is weak-willed and narrow-minded. Myth 3: People who are cheerful and optimistic will not get depression Many people habitually think that depressed people are always sad and in tears all day long. In fact, whether or not to suffer from depression and a person’s personality cheerful or not is not necessarily related. A small number of depressed people always smile and look like an optimistic and cheerful person. However, this smile may not come from the heart of the real feelings, but only for reasons of work, face, etiquette, in fact, they are depressed and bitter inside. Comedians like Chaplin and Mr. Bean are this particular type of depression. Myth 4: Depression is an emotional and psychological problem that does not cause physical discomfort Depression is fundamentally a psychiatric disorder, and depression is a key symptom. But this does not mean that depressed people will not experience physical discomfort. On the contrary, physical discomfort is very common in depressed patients, such as insomnia, loss of appetite, bloating and constipation, body aches and pains, chest tightness, headache and dizziness, and poor breathing. Generally speaking, most of these physical discomforts are subjective feelings of patients, and no obvious abnormalities can be found after examination by doctors and instruments. Myth 5: Drugs for depression are stimulants, addictive, and can damage intelligence and brain. Drugs for depression are “antidepressants” and have nothing to do with stimulants. Moreover, antidepressants are not dependent, not addictive, and not “once taken, it is impossible to quit for life”. With the advancement of medicine, many new antidepressants have been developed in the past 20 years, which have minimal side effects and are safe, and some are safe and effective in the elderly and adolescent population. It is nonsense to say that taking antidepressants damages intelligence and brain.