In this fast-paced era, people living with worries and heartaches seems to be a common thing, and depression has become a highly prevalent illness to the point of seeming very ordinary. However, many people still have little understanding of depression, and even some cognitive misunderstandings.
In fact, depression is a type of emotional disorder characterized primarily by a depressive mood. This long-lasting depressive emotion can lead to a lack of confidence, avoidance of crowds, feelings of guilt, significant reduction in physical energy, slowing down of the perception of time, and an inability to experience joy in any interesting activities.
These disorders can also cause dysfunction in the patient’s bodily functions, such as sleep disturbances, excessive or reduced appetite, and pain sensitivity. In severe cases, it can even lead to suicidal tendencies in patients.
Just like how some people may wake up feeling very irritable, which for a normal person would disappear after a while, but for those suffering from depression, such feelings can accompany them for a long time.
How is depression generally diagnosed?
1. Pay attention to subjective experiences, such as feeling unhappy, lack of interest in people or things.
2. Observe objective reflections, such as being perceived by others as lazy, lacking strength, and having no smile throughout the day.
3. Focus on mental health, understand mental health knowledge, and conduct self-assessment of mental health.
4. After initially understanding the symptoms of depression, one needs to go to specialized institutions for psychological evaluation and physical examination. Besides conducting a comprehensive physical examination and neurological examination, attention should also be given to auxiliary examinations and laboratory tests. These include dexamethasone suppression tests and thyrotropin-releasing hormone suppression tests.
Three things that depression patients should never overlook!
1. Relax yourself, relieve stress, cultivate hobbies and interests, exercise regularly, take walks, jog, etc.
2. Include more foods rich in potassium in your diet, such as bananas, lean meat, nuts, green vegetables, which can effectively stabilize blood pressure and relax mood.
3. Also, include more foods rich in B vitamins in your diet, such as eggs, dark green vegetables, milk, pumpkin seeds, as they can effectively alleviate symptoms of depression patients like low mood, overall fatigue, loss of appetite, etc.
The suffering brought by depression is something that those who have not experienced it can never truly understand. Depression is not something that can be easily overcome with a few irrelevant phrases like “cheer up, be strong, don’t be dramatic.” What we can do for individuals suffering from depression is to help them access professional medical support when they need it and provide them with appropriate companionship and care.
We also hope that this world allows for failures, allows for pain, is filled with love, and gives more tolerance and patience for individuals suffering from depression.
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