As people’s living conditions continue to improve, the pressure becomes greater and greater, whether adults already working or teenagers studying in school, both experience certain levels of pressure.
Excessive pressure often makes people feel breathless. If they do not know how to release the pressure within them, it will only torment their mental and physical health, potentially leading to depression.
The number of depression patients is gradually increasing, but it does not mean that everyone under pressure may develop into depression patients. Depression patients tend to overthink and are unwilling to confide in others or engage in communication.
Especially for those who often use these phrases as mantras, they are more likely to experience feelings of inferiority, making them more susceptible to depression. Let’s analyze it in more detail below.
People with mild depression usually have four mantras:
So annoyed
Most depression patients have relatively weak resistance to stress. Encountering minor setbacks or difficulties can make them feel on the verge of collapse.
This group of people often exclaims they are so annoyed, as this becomes their mantra. Depression patients often linger in a negative state, tend to consider things in the worst light, and lack patience, feeling increasingly irritable about many things.
It’s all my fault
In our lives, depression patients typically like to attribute all faults to themselves, believing that they are responsible for failures.
They often say to others, “It’s all my fault,” fearing criticism. This group of people is fundamentally very self-deprecating.
If you have such people around you, make sure to encourage and spend more time chatting with them to help them relieve their burdens, preventing them from becoming more discouraged and depressed.
I’m completely useless
Depression patients tend to harbor self-doubt, feeling worthless despite their actual excellence, persistently demeaning their own value and believing their existence is meaningless.
If your friends often express themselves this way, it may indicate mild depression. Be sure to encourage them and help them gain more confidence in life; lingering in such self-doubt will only worsen the depression.
My heart is empty
Although depression patients often think about many things daily, they frequently feel emotionally vacant, thinking their life lacks meaning and that they cannot do anything well.
While normal individuals feel great sorrow when encountering sadness, depression patients may appear emotionally empty, seemingly indifferent to external changes or preoccupied elsewhere, giving off an appearance of inner emptiness.
Those suffering from mild depression often turn the above four phrases into mantras, repeatedly expressing them. If you have such friends, make sure to guide them. Additionally, depression tends to favor specific groups of people; hopefully, you are not among them.
Repeated emphasis: Depression tends to “favor” six types of people, hoping you are not among them:
1. Pregnant women or new mothers: Due to a sudden drop in hormone levels postpartum, depression may arise. Symptoms include preparing eagerly for the baby’s arrival but feeling disconnected postpartum, not caring for the child or avoiding breastfeeding, which might signal mild depression. Family members should offer guidance in such cases.
2. Long-term illness patients: The suffering brought by illness may be incomprehensible to others, especially for cancer patients enduring severe illnesses without a cure. This prolonged suffering can lead to isolation, mental torment, exacerbating depression, weakening the body’s immunity, worsening the initial condition, and posing a threat to life.
3. Individuals facing marital issues: With changing attitudes towards love, marriage, many people struggle to address marital problems positively, impacting their emotions significantly. Negative living circumstances can worsen depression over time.
4. Individuals with low self-esteem: Lack of confidence due to feelings of inferiority, despite possessing significant abilities, leads to self-deprecation and constant feelings of inadequacy. Persistent self-doubt can trigger mild depression.
5. Self-centered individuals: Self-centered people are often selfish, neglecting the needs of others, obsessing over personal gains or losses, potentially leading to social isolation, loneliness, and a higher risk of depression.
6. Empty nesters: As one of society’s most vulnerable groups, older adults’ mental health cannot be ignored. Physical decline, increased ailments, the passing of loved ones can severely impact the fragile minds and bodies of the elderly, potentially leading to depression. As empty nests are on the rise, children must offer timely companionship to prevent depression or other conditions from taking over these elderly individuals.
