How to tell others that they have depression?

See a doctor if you are depressed, and don't hide it from the doctor if you are sick. The patients discussed below all have depression. Should they tell others? Obviously, they are not doctors, but groups outside medical care. Although social propaganda seems to understand depression, there is still discrimination against depression in people's deep consciousness (for example, in the promotion of administrative posts). Therefore, patients with depression should be his privacy and generally will not tell anyone (hereinafter referred to as confidentiality). Unless necessary, when depression has to seek help or care, it may be necessary to make it public in a limited scope.

1. Open secret: Some patients have high social status and great achievements, but they are depressed and will persist until they commit suicide. The price of this secrecy is too high. Without life, what's the point of saving face? When taking medication for depression, if it is too heavy to stay, find a reason to rest. It is better to find other reasons, but there is no reason, only to send a note of depression or emotional disorder; Compared with committing suicide because you can't hold on, that's nothing, let alone taking time off or quitting. Once depression is made public, it will only hurt once, and then you can fully enjoy the care that depression deserves.

2. Condition disclosure: When the patient's depression is so serious that he has to ask for help, he can disclose his depression to the other party when he judges that the other party can keep a secret for him and get help from the other party regularly; And when judging that the other party can't keep a secret for him, or that the other party won't help him after knowing it, he certainly won't tell the other party the secret.

3. Disclosure status: When the patient is so depressed that he has to ask for help, it is judged that the other party can help him, but it may not be able to keep his secret. It can be said that I am depressed at the moment, but don't say that I have depression, so that I can get help and feel better.

4. The price of confidentiality: In order to maintain their image in the crowd, some patients do not reimburse the unit for drugs for depression or even hospitalization expenses. As long as they can afford it, I think it is understandable.