How to tell if you have depression? What should I do if I don’t dare to go to the hospital?

Is there a person around you who always seems out of place at friends’ gatherings? Food is tempting, but he has no appetite at all? Feeling listless at work and missing after get off work? He is frowning and complaining all day long...

His character is like a person living in a black and white (dark) world, without a trace of color (light) in his heart. We call people who have long-term low mood, lack of interest, low self-esteem and self-blame all day long, and even feel that life has lost meaning, we call them "depressive patients."

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Some people say that depression is not a disease, and you just need to be open-minded. They think that with more enlightenment, depressed people will become happy; others say that depression Depression is a disease that has nothing to do with the spiritual and material given. Patients with depression will not slowly become happy just because you tell a lot of jokes or give a lot of "chicken soup". All happiness seems to have nothing to do with him.

Is depression a disease? What should you do if you have depression? Before answering these questions, let’s take a look at these pieces of news:

We searched for depression-related news on the Internet. There are many examples of “depressed patients committing suicide”, including some celebrities. There are also many cases of celebrities. So why do so many people with depression end up dying/suicide?

Why do patients with depression want to die/suicide

First of all, we must know that the reason why patients with depression are depressed is, on the one hand, affected by neurobiochemical factors, which interact with central neurotransmitters. It is related to the decrease in the functions of NE, 5-HT, and DA, that is, there are fewer seeds that transmit happiness, and people become depressed; on the other hand, it is due to the influence of life, genetics, and personality. For example, there are depression patients in the family, or It is due to the impact of something or psychological factors that causes the patient to feel depressed.

According to a statistical result, patients with depression account for 50-70% of the people who commit suicide. There are currently 350 million people with depression worldwide, and this number is still rising.

One of the reasons why patients with depression want to die is that they feel very lonely inside. When patients with depression are in a low mood, they feel that there is no point in doing anything, that there is no hope in life, they are in a desperate situation, and they have insomnia. Symptoms such as loss of appetite, unknown body pain, etc. will follow, and they will feel very painful. On the other hand, patients with depression cannot accept that they have depression, and increasingly feel that they are a burden to their loved ones, thinking that if they are gone, their loved ones will I would live a better life. After these negative thoughts continued to recur, I decided to end my life and had the idea of ????suicide.

How to judge whether you have depression?

1. Symptoms of patients with depression

(1) Low mood, lack of interest, and lack of happiness

Depressed patients are long-term depressed, sad, Feeling helpless, feeling like life is worse than death, feeling that the whole day is meaningless, symptoms are more severe in the morning and lessened in the evening; interest in favorite activities has decreased or even lost, and the ability to experience happiness has also been lost;

(2) Slow thinking and decreased volitional activity

Depressive patients have slow thinking, slow reaction, difficulty in thinking about problems, do not want to do things every day, avoid social interaction, live alone behind closed doors, and even Disregarding personal hygiene, manifested as not eating, drinking or talking;

(3) Self-blame, suicidal ideation and behavior

Depressed patients feel pain for all their past faults or mistakes. Add blame, think that they have brought a burden to the family and society, feel that they are extremely guilty, and then gradually feel that life is meaningless and death is the destination, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors appear;

(4) Psychiatric symptoms and physical symptoms

Some patients with depression will experience hallucinations and delusions. Some patients will experience unexplained body pain, such as muscle pain and leg pain; they will also experience loss of appetite, constipation, and fatigue. Women Patients may have irregular menstruation, and male patients may experience symptoms such as sexual dysfunction.

2. Diagnosis through testing

In addition to preliminarily judging whether we have depression from the symptoms of depression, we can also go for testing through professional institutions.

For example, go to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination and examination of the nervous system and mental status; of course, psychological examination is also very important. Many people suspect that they have depression, and generally an assessment scale can be used to diagnose it. The severity of depression, in addition, laboratory tests (blood, urine routine, liver function and other tests on patients) can be used to rule out physical diseases and understand the function of important organs; cranial imaging tests (such as CT, MRI , electroencephalogram, etc.) to rule out organic mental disorders.