”In recent years, China’s population is a high incidence of mental illness, we have entered the ‘universal anxiety era’. 2009 a survey shows that depression and anxiety in China’s professional population has been more serious, more than 50% of people have different degrees of depression symptoms. “
How to guard our spiritual home?
According to statistics, the prevalence of mental illness among adults aged 15 and above in China is about 17%, of which depression is about 5%, anxiety is about 5%, drug, alcohol and other substance dependence is about 5%, and the prevalence of severe mental illness is 1%.
From depressed officials committing suicide to freshmen committing suicide at BYU, news of all kinds of people abandoning their lives due to mental illnesses is endless.
When a person has a physical or mental problem, it is often blamed on being under stress, so where does the stress that people commonly feel come from? And what makes them go down the road of no return? How do we guard our spiritual home?
According to statistics, the prevalence of mental illness among adults aged 15 and above in China is about 17%, with depression at about 5%, anxiety at about 5%, drug and alcohol dependence at about 5%, and severe mental illness at 1%. For example, about 10 million people suffer from schizophrenia and more than 26 million people suffer from depression. Mental illness has surpassed cardiovascular, respiratory and malignant tumor diseases in the ranking of China’s disease burden, accounting for one-fifth of the total burden.
In addition to physical and genetic factors, mental illness is related to psychological, personality, social and environmental factors. In the face of rapid socio-economic development, the transformation of social structure, and the increase in the gap between each person’s own internal expectations and the actual, all of these can create pressure, which becomes a direct cause of mental illness in some people.
A recent survey conducted by the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 found that nearly 40% of Chinese urban elderly people have depressive mood problems. This is inextricably linked to economic problems, empty nesting and reduced social interaction.
Early psychological guidance is the key
At present, people are quite indifferent to their own mental health. When some negative emotions strike, they do not realize in time that it may be a mental illness, and rarely seek help from a psychologist.
Sun’s mother regrets that she did not take her daughter to a regular hospital earlier. When her daughter was in her third year of high school, she had symptoms of anxiety, nervousness, insomnia, and often cried, and Sun’s mother thought that she would be fine after this period because she was nervous about studying for the college entrance exams, but soon after she went to college, her daughter started to have anxiety, crying, and fear of sound again. Sun’s mother took her daughter to a number of counseling clinics in 3 years, spent a lot of money, but no improvement, in the senior year of college Sun’s mother’s daughter has not been able to go to school normally.
In fact, this is a typical depression, parents often do not want to admit that their children have a mental illness, thinking that this will ruin the child’s future. In outpatient clinics, we often encounter people who have had symptoms for several years before they go to the hospital for the first time, afraid that the disease will affect how others see them, and subsequently affect their positions and promotions. Early psychological guidance is the key to preventing mental illness, instead.
”This reflects the lack of awareness of mental illness among the whole population” , mental illness is just one of many diseases, it should not be labeled as a special disease, society should not be prejudiced against this disease, if a person finds himself in this area, early formal treatment should be the most appropriate choice. The practice of waiting to see if it will get better on its own is likely to miss the best treatment period.
Self-decompression should vary from person to person
There is still a distance between general psychological disorders and serious mental disorders. Many of them normally look the same as normal people, but that doesn’t mean they are completely healthy. When some of them face the pressure of survival such as employment, marriage, children, and retirement, their helplessness and frustration can become an instant “fuse” that ignites the “dynamite pack” instantly. Therefore, everyone should pay attention to their emotions as much as their diet and sleep.
So, when people face stress, how to reduce stress for themselves and adjust their emotions?
More and more evidence at home and abroad shows that in addition to physical health benefits, exercise can also play a role in relieving stress and depression and improving insomnia.
Self-decompression is an effective way – or climb a mountain, or find a friend to talk about venting, or singing, or long breathing, or meditation. It mainly depends on which way suits you.
Some people think that the Internet and games are relaxation, in fact, this is a misconception, the Internet and games can not play a role in catharsis, but some information online will invariably form pressure on people, so the Internet and games are not a good way to reduce stress. She suggested that if you feel pressure in the workplace because of too many things on hand, you may want to list the things you need to do on paper, and check off one after another, and each check off one is to give yourself a pressure off.
Depressed mood performance
Depressed mood, diminished interest, patients lose interest and pleasure in their hobby activities because of bad mood, feel that doing things is tasteless, can’t get excited, can’t enjoy the fun of life, and can’t experience the joy of family; don’t want to talk, don’t want to move, don’t want to go to work, don’t want to go out and interact with people, refuse to socialize, even daily life such as eating, bathing need to be urged; patients often think of Patients often think of pessimistic and unpleasant things, feel that their ability has decreased, disappointed and frustrated, low self-esteem, lonely and helpless, lose hope for the future, feel that life is like years, life is meaningless and worthless, and even life is worse than death, so they have the idea of suicide and suicidal behavior. About half of the depressed patients have varying degrees of anxiety, such as irritability, nervousness and anxiety.
Chinese medicine treatment for depression
How about the treatment of depression in Chinese medicine? Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from depression, so more and more people are asking this question, so what are the methods of Chinese medicine treatment for depression? The following is a brief introduction to several types of TCM evidence, I hope it can be helpful to you.
1, liver depression spleen deficiency
Main evidence: sentimentality, pessimism and anxiety, emotional instability, sighing, fullness of the two sides, abdominal distension and diarrhea, body tiredness and dullness, light red tongue, thin white fur, thin pulse.
Evidence Analysis: This evidence is due to emotional disorders, liver depression and spleen suppression, emotional injury, loss of liver control, spleen deficiency and qi knotting, too much thinking, emotional instability, pessimism and anxiety, sighing and sighing; liver qi stagnation, qi is not smooth, so the two hypochondriacs are distended and painful, liver depression multiplies the spleen and offends the stomach, then there is abdominal distension and diarrhea, body tiredness and dullness, light red tongue, thin white moss, thin pulse, all are signs of liver depression and spleen deficiency. The main points of identification are sadness and anxiety with good breath, distension and fullness in the chest, abdominal distension and diarrhea, and body tiredness and dullness.
2.Qi stagnation and blood stagnation
Main symptoms: depression, suicide attempts, irritability, slow thinking and association, slow movement, dull complexion, pain in the ribs, amenorrhea in women. The tongue is purple and dark or with bruises, white coating, sunken and stringent pulse.
Analysis: This evidence is caused by prolonged qi depression, poor blood flow and stagnation of phlegm and blood. The main points of identification are emotional depression, slow thinking and association, dull complexion, dullness and pain in the ribs, and a purple tongue or bruised spots. Stagnation of liver blood, loss of liver control, depression, suicidal attempts, irritability, stagnation of phlegm and blood, mental and spiritual restlessness, and therefore slow thinking and movement. Liver stagnation and qi stagnation. The pain in the ribs is distended, and women are amenorrheic. Dull complexion, purple tongue or bruise, sunken and stringent pulse are all signs of blood stagnation.
3. Heart and spleen deficiency type
Main symptoms: insomnia, difficulty in sleeping at night, or dreaming and waking up easily, and difficulty in sleeping again after waking up. Accompanied by palpitations, forgetfulness, dizziness, fatigue, thoughtfulness, tastelessness and lack of color in the mouth. The tongue is light and the fur is thin and white.
4.Yin deficiency and fire type
Main symptoms: insomnia and dreaminess, waking up after a short sleep, and irritability of the five hearts. Accompanied by palpitations, dizziness, dizziness, tinnitus, lumbar soreness and dreaminess, dry mouth with little fluid. The tongue is red and the coating is thin.
5. Heart-kidney disconnection type
Evidence: Disturbance of the heart and sleeplessness, waking up at times. Accompanied by dizziness, tinnitus, dry throat, depression, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, impotence in men and menstrual disorders in women. Red tongue with little coating.
6. Heart deficiency and timidity type
Evidence: Vain annoyance and sleeplessness, sleepy and dreamy, easy to wake up in dreams. Accompanied by day and night vigilance, restlessness, easily frightened, timid, fearful, palpitations, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating. Pale tongue, thin coating and thin pulse.