Diagnosis and treatment of depressive personality

  Depressive personalities are quiet, restrained, secretive as well as demoralized, often displaying a pessimistic or at least skeptical attitude. These people almost never talk about themselves, and it is difficult for those around them to get to know their inner world. The depressive personality structure can be hidden behind a false mask of apparent composure or steadiness. In addition to these depressive-serious types, there is also a higher number of troubled depressions, whose pessimism is characterized by wrathfulness, criticality and sarcastic sarcasm. Most people are down-to-earth and unobtrusive in their work, and they barely make it to top positions.  There is no close association between depressive personality structure and depressive psychosis (internalized depression, depression) and no strong association with depressive experiential reactions. Depressive personality structure and depressive personality neurosis are seen clinically as the same disorder and can be distinguished from depressive neurosis (or neurotic depression) only by the described personality structure plus the clinical symptoms of depressive mood; the clinical boundaries are as indistinct as the concept.  For the development of a depressive personality structure, in addition to innate factors, the parent-child relationship plays an important role, mainly in terms of a strong long-term ambivalent relationship with the mother who failed to help him become independent. These individuals lack resistance to the loss of security insurance and feel uneasy about self-growth or independence. Disorders in the relationship with parents, loss of love, and other interpersonal conflicts can trigger a crisis.  Depressive personality is treated primarily with psychotherapy. Patients should first set some goals, face their current situation and set some goals that are easier to accomplish, so that the psychological depression will be lessened. Secondly, on the question of how to overcome depression on their own, experts suggest that patients should try to contact and interact with people as much as possible, don’t keep to themselves, and try to participate in as many activities as possible. Again, patients must do a good job of preventing the disease according to their actual situation, and maintain good habits and optimism in daily life. Finally, patients can also divide a large and complicated work into several small parts, do not be impatient, and do not hurry about their condition, to know that treatment also takes time.