What are the manifestations of patients with depression? How to help depressed patients get out of trouble?

Everyone has his moments of happiness and sadness. On the other hand, depression is a common emotional distress.

The reason why we feel depressed stems from the sense of powerlessness that we think we are unable to cope with external pressure, which leads to our feelings of disgust, pain, shame and inferiority.

Generally speaking, this kind of depressed emotional reaction is normal, only occasionally, and the duration is very short. As long as you have a good sleep and do something happy, the symptoms of depression will disappear.

However, if you often, quickly and easily fall into depression and can't extricate yourself, and it lasts for a long time, which affects your normal life, then you may have suffered from depression.

According to psychological research, the three stages of a person's life, that is, late adolescence, middle age and retirement, are prone to depression, and the elderly are more prone to depression.

There are two types of depression:

1, excessive emotional reaction caused by mental shock;

2. Sudden depression for no special reason;

According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, about 3% of the world's population suffers from depression.

The following symptoms, if you show five or more symptoms for more than two weeks in a row, you need to pay attention to your psychological situation:

Persistent sadness, anxiety, helplessness or lack of thinking; Too much or too little sleep; Weight loss, loss of appetite; Lost the fun and interest in contact with the outside world and participating in activities; Often uneasy or anxious; Difficulty in concentration, memory loss, and difficulty in moving; Feel tired or depressed at every turn; Will feel guilty, desperate, or think that they are worthless; There will be suicidal tendencies, or thoughts of death; Of course, most people are only slightly depressed, far from the severity of depression.

But if you have these symptoms more or less, you need to pay attention to them. Learn to adjust the mentality, change the existing lifestyle, and prevent depression from getting worse.

Why do you suffer from depression? Generally speaking, the factors leading to depression are not single.

In many cases, both internal and external factors can be the main causes of depression, and they interact with each other, thus prompting individuals to produce negative emotions more quickly.

But for those friends who really suffer from depression, there are usually the following reasons:

1, genetic;

Heredity is an important factor of depression. 50% people often suffer from depression, and their father or mother has also suffered from this disease.

2. Neurotransmitter imbalance in the brain;

Depression is caused by interference in the area of the brain that controls emotions. Most people can cope with daily emotional stress, but this kind of stress is too great, beyond the scope of their regulatory function, and depression may occur.

3. Personality characteristics;

People with low self-esteem, pessimism, perfectionism and strong dependence are prone to depression.

4. Environmental or social factors;

A series of blows, failures, setbacks, major blows in life, or certain diseases that affect a person's life for a long time can also lead to depression.

5. Eating habits;

Studies have found that food can significantly affect brain behavior. Diet is the most common cause of depression.

For example, if we have bad eating habits and often eat unhealthy snacks, then the nerve impulse conduction substances in the brain responsible for managing our behavior will be affected by the food we eat.

Of course, some major events or setbacks in life can also lead to depression, such as importance, big family disputes, and major failures in work, career and love.

However, the reason why most of us suffer from depression is not actually caused by those "force majeure" factors. Many times, it is often because of our own reasons, that is, mentality.

A bad attitude will more easily lead to a series of negative emotions.

When these negative emotions continue to accumulate together and the body can't bear them, they will naturally erupt and eventually produce depression.

Among them, the following five kinds of mentality are most likely to make us suffer from depression.

The first kind: the thought is more extreme;

People with this kind of thinking like either-or thinking and don't know how to be flexible.

Once such people encounter setbacks, they will have a feeling of complete failure, or when they encounter difficulties and misfortunes in life, they will think that these difficulties will continue and be unacceptable, and then they will feel worthless and lose confidence.

The second type; Negative thinking;

Some people always habitually interpret things in a negative way, just like wearing a pair of colored glasses to face life and filtering out all the bright and positive aspects.

They often use a "pessimistic assumption" to analyze everything in this world, only grasping the bad parts of things and extending them to all aspects.

The third kind: sensitive and suspicious mind;

Some people easily react violently to the slightest thing and worry that bad results will appear at any time all day.

When they encounter something, regardless of the actual situation, they already have their own judgments, subjective doubts and worries about others. This is what happens to some Hong Kong people who make trouble now.

The fourth type: inferiority complex;

Some people are always used to living in a pessimistic, negative and desperate way, and it is easy to shape their own bad mentality. Because what you do and say is a gesture of inferiority, then the inferiority related to depression will also be involved.

Under the guidance of inferiority complex, such people think that they are inferior to others everywhere. Seeing others succeed, I feel that I don't have the same skills. Seeing others fail, I feel that my results will be even worse.

Over time, this unfounded self-pity made my relaxed mood tense.

Fifth: like to blame yourself;

Some people will take their bad feelings as the basis of facts. For example, if you are unhappy when it rains, you will think that God is rejecting you, and when the restaurant is closed, you will think that you are not welcome.

They often overestimate their shortcomings and underestimate their cleverness. Especially when you are depressed, this kind of thinking of expanding reasoning will be more serious.

These misconceptions have caused many people to fall into depression and cannot get rid of it.

Methods to eliminate depression Although depression is a common emotional disorder, long-term depression can even damage people's body and mind and affect their daily work and life.

But we don't have to worry too much. As long as we consciously adjust ourselves, most people can return to normal. The following six methods may be helpful to your depression.

Method 1: Learn to self-regulate your mood and gradually improve your mood.

Friends with depression should stop complaining about themselves and the world around them, be clear about their cognitive mistakes, and don't think with their own feelings. Because it feels different from the truth.

Whenever you feel unhappy, you can record those bad thoughts or feelings.

Because if you cram everything into your brain, it's easy to make your brain overwhelmed, but if you properly empty these bad ideas from your brain, your body and mind will be released and your emotions will naturally be channeled.

But it should be noted that when you record your mood, you'd better follow the current mood-reason-solution process. For example, you can write:

1, the current mood-not happy today.

2, the reason-because I met some things, I feel very wronged, people around me are scolding me, and I feel very tired.

3, solution-if there is any way to solve this problem, I think it is better to go out for a while!

This recording method is very useful, because it can let you know your current mood clearly and find out the reasons that lead to your mood.

At the same time, the last step allows you to force yourself to think about how to solve this problem. As long as you often think about how to solve problems, you can actively mobilize your positive thinking and pull yourself out of a passive and helpless state.

This is a way to turn your negative attitude into a positive one. Because there is no "solution" step, you will only stare at the dark side of things all the time, and you can't reverse your wrong cognition by positive means.

Why are some people positive and optimistic? Because he has always acted in a positive and optimistic way. Remember, actions can shape our thoughts.

If you want to be happy, do something happy.

Method 2: Make yourself a list of practical actions.

Since positive actions and doing some positive things can make our mentality positive, it is very important to make a concrete action plan for ourselves.

A young man disabled by a car accident asked a psychiatrist, "Do you think my life has a future?"

The psychologist said, "If you want to be a high jumper, there is no future." If you want to be a successful person, there are still many preconditions. "

It can be seen that it is very useful to set a reasonable life goal and let yourself change slowly with your actions.

So what life goals can you set?

Research shows that regular sun exposure and exercise will play a positive role in depressed people. Doing more exercise can give you unexpected relaxation. And often bask in the sun, you can slowly get a full spirit under the sun bath.

At the same time, a regular and stable life is what people with depression need most. Go to bed early and get up early, eat regularly, exercise regularly and study regularly. This regular activity will reduce the burden of bad emotions in your brain, so as to mobilize more energy to deal with things in life and have no time to take care of depression.

Completing one more thing will give you a sense of accomplishment or value. The accumulation of this positive emotion is an important means to restore health.

Method 3: expand your interpersonal communication;

Depressed people always like to hide in their own world and get deeper and deeper.

Why are lonely people more prone to depression? Because when a person is alone, he can't get in touch with all kinds of external feedback, and he can only adjust himself with his own single feedback, especially the bad feedback. Obviously, such an adjustment will only make you worse and worse.

However, if you get in touch with the outside world, some optimistic or positive people will give you some positive feedback to make you understand that the world is not as narrow as you think.

In a group, communicating and chatting with people, especially with energetic and energetic people, will make you feel the brightness and beauty of things more.

Moreover, good interpersonal communication can give you a channel to release your emotions, whether it is telling your intimate friends about your unhappiness or giving everyone a chance to comfort you, it is a good way.

Although not everyone is willing to listen to your complaints or really understand your feelings, in a crowd, at least you won't always think about those bad things alone.

Of course, if you find yourself really depressed, you should find a special psychologist for treatment and take antidepressants as instructed until you fully recover.

Depressed emotions can easily turn into depression. When you find yourself suffering from mild depression, don't let it go, and adjust your treatment as soon as possible.

After all, depression is just a mental flu. As long as you have the confidence to persist in treatment, there will always be a good day for colds.