What are the symptoms of sunshine depression? People with this kind of depression are happy and full of passion. Wherever they go, they are like sunshine, making people around them full of light and happiness. But when they are alone, they have a sudden smile and a faint pain in their hearts. This is sunshine depression.
Specific symptoms of sunshine depression:
1, which hides the feelings of depression, injustice and anger, and gives people the feeling of sunshine, happiness and passion on the surface.
2. Have "fantasy to escape from the existing environment".
3, emotional loss, despair of life.
Depression is a serious mental illness, which must be treated in time, otherwise it will affect the physical and mental health of patients. So how should the treatment of sunshine depression be carried out? The treatment methods of sunshine depression mainly include the following.
Etiology and treatment
(1) etiology
Psychologists analyze the treatment of sunshine depression, saying that the reason of "emotional apathy" is closely related to the lack of sunshine in rainy days. Because there is actually a "third eye" between our eyes, medically called the pineal gland. The pineal gland can secrete melatonin. The secretion of melatonin is limited by light. Long-term use of melatonin in the human body will inhibit the hormones responsible for cell activity and excitement in the human body, leading to depression in the human body.
(2) Treatment method
1, keep walking for 30 to 60 minutes every morning, let your face bathe in the warm sunshine, and the depressed mood will disappear. Because sunlight is an excellent natural antidepressant, and the sunshine in the morning has the best effect.
2. Psychotherapy. Patients can effectively improve their condition through their own adjustment. Depression itself is a serious mental disorder, so it must be treated as early as possible to avoid aggravation.
Sunshine depression is a kind of happy sunshine on the surface, which hides depression, injustice, anger and other emotions, which leads to depression because it has not been vented for a long time.
What are the typical characteristics of depression?
Depression is a disease with high incidence in recent years. Depression is divided into mild, moderate and severe, among which mild depression is often ignored by us, so the best period of treatment is missed. So how to identify depression? What are the typical characteristics of depression?
What are the typical characteristics of depression?
The typical characteristics of depression are:
(1) The mood continues to be low, unhappy and pessimistic.
(2) Mental function declines, self-evaluation decreases, people are unwilling to associate with them, and their mood is dull. They always look at everything with a "gray" mood.
(3) Declining interest, self-reproach, how unfortunate, depressed, helpless and hopeless the inner experience is, and I always feel that living is meaningless. And can be accompanied by a variety of physical discomfort, such as insomnia, loss of appetite and so on.
The diagnostic criteria of depression in China are: depression is the main cause of depression, which is not commensurate with its situation and can be manifested as depression, grief and even stupor. In severe cases, mental symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions may occur. Anxiety and sports excitement are obvious in some cases.
The standard of symptoms is mainly depression, with at least the following four items:
(1) Loss of interest and unhappiness
(2) Energy loss or fatigue
(3) mental retardation or excitement
(4) Low self-evaluation, self-blame or guilt.
(5) Association difficulties or decreased intuitive thinking ability.
(6) Repeated thoughts of wanting to die or committing suicide or self-injury.
(7) Sleep disorders, such as insomnia, early awakening or excessive sleep.
(8) Loss of appetite or obvious weight loss
(9) Loss of libido
I believe everyone knows the typical characteristics of depression. If friends around you have these symptoms, you should be careful whether it is mild depression.
Symptoms and manifestations of depression
Three main symptoms of depression
1. Depression means unhappiness, always sadness or even pessimism and despair. Lin Daiyu, who frowns and sighs all day and tears easily in A Dream of Red Mansions, is a typical example.
2. Mental retardation refers to conscious mental retardation, inability to remember things, difficulty in thinking, especially loss of interest and pleasure. The patient felt empty and stupid.
3. Exercise inhibition, including mental and energy decline, feeling tired all the time, being inactive, being lazy all over, walking slowly and talking less. Seriously, you may not be able to eat, move or take care of yourself.
The most dangerous symptom
Depressed patients are depressed and pessimistic. In severe cases, it is easy to have suicidal thoughts. Moreover, because the patient's thinking logic is basically normal, the success rate of suicide is also high. Suicide is one of the most dangerous symptoms of depression. According to research, the suicide rate of patients with depression is 20 times higher than that of the general population. More than half of the social suicide population may be depressed patients. Some unexplained suicides may have suffered from severe depression before their death, but they were not found in time. Because suicide only happens when the disease develops to a certain extent. Therefore, for patients with depression, early detection and early treatment are very important. Don't wait for the patient to commit suicide before thinking that he may have depression.
Somatic symptoms
In addition to emotional symptoms, depression can also have some physical symptoms, including sleep disorder (difficulty in falling asleep, shallow sleep, waking up early, and another situation, others think he slept well, but I don't think he fell asleep at all), fatigue or decreased energy, loss of appetite (70% of depressed patients will have this situation, from loss of appetite to severe loss of appetite), and sexual dysfunction (.
Basic knowledge of treatment
A variety of antidepressants, physical therapy (such as analgesic sleeping pillow) and psychotherapy can all treat depression. For some patients, antidepressants are more effective; For other patients, physical therapy or psychotherapy is more effective; For most patients, drug therapy and physical therapy may be the most effective. Especially for patients with severe depression, physical therapy can be used to relieve the symptoms of depression relatively quickly, while Baihe Qingnao Shen Jing can be used as the medicine to achieve satisfactory therapeutic effect.
Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Rating Scale (EPDS)
Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS) is a widely used self-rating scale, including 65,438+00 items. According to the severity of symptoms, each item is divided into four grades (0, 65, 438+0, 2, 3 points), which are carried out 6 weeks after delivery, and it takes about 5 minutes to complete the scale evaluation. The sum of 10 scores is the total score. Those with a total score of 12 ~ 13 may have different degrees of depressive diseases. The total score ≥ 13 can be diagnosed as postpartum depression.
Explanation: You just gave birth to a baby. We want to know how you feel. Please choose an answer that best reflects your feelings in the past seven days.
1, I can see the interesting side of things and smile happily:
A.as before. B.not as much as before. C.it must be less than before. not at all
2. I look forward to everything in the future:
A.as before. B.not as much as before. C.it must be less than before. not at all
3, when things go wrong, I will blame myself unnecessarily:
A.there is no such thing. B. not often C. sometimes. Most of the time.
I feel anxious and worried for no reason:
A. not at all. C. sometimes. D. often
5. I feel inexplicably scared and panicked:
A. not at all. B. not often C. sometimes. D. often.
6. I can't breathe when many things come at me:
A. I can't cope most of the time. B.sometimes I can't cope as well as usual. C. I can handle it most of the time. D. I can always handle it well
7. I am so unhappy that I can't sleep:
A. not at all. B. not often C. sometimes. Most of the time.
8. I feel sad and sad:
A. most of the time. B. often. C. not often. D. no
9. I was so unhappy that I cried:
A. not at all. B. not often C. sometimes. Most of the time.
10, I thought about hurting myself:
A. often. B. sometimes. C. Very few. D. never
Description of test scores: A=0, B= 1, C=2, D=3. Please calculate the total score.
Interpretation of EPDS survey score;
The scoring range is 0 ~ 30, and 9 ~ 13 is used as the diagnostic standard.
The total score ≥ 13 can be diagnosed as postpartum depression, and comprehensive intervention is suggested in time.
Psychological network reminds you that postpartum depression is not a character defect or cowardice. Sometimes it's just a complication of childbirth. If you suffer from postpartum depression, timely treatment can help you control the symptoms and enjoy the happiness brought by the newborn baby.
Pay attention to World Mental Health Day and four major manifestations of depression.
In daily life, we often attribute insomnia, acne, backache and physical and mental fatigue to physical discomfort, without realizing that they will be mental diseases. On June 10, 10, at the "World Mental Health Day" publicity activity in Chongqing on June 20 15, many mental health experts were present to give directions. What are the symptoms that we often ignore, but may cause mental illness? Let's have a look.
Psychologist Deng Yongqing told reporters that the survey shows that depression has become the fourth largest disease in the world. There are 30 million depression patients in China, but only 10% of them receive formal treatment. Poor sleep, depression, anxiety, pessimism and disappointment, anyone may accidentally encounter mental illness.
There are four manifestations of mental depression, which can not be ignored in daily life.
Deng Yongqing said that due to the influence of social environment, physical condition and family conditions, personal mental state will fluctuate. In daily life, we often simply attribute it to physical discomfort without realizing mental illness. In fact, at this time, we need to pay special attention to prevent mental depression, anxiety and other health problems.
Manifestation of mental depression 1: Emotional depression
Deng Yongqing said that the most obvious manifestation of mental health problems, especially depression, is emotional depression, which is mainly manifested in significant and lasting emotional depression, pessimism and lack of interest in everything; Self-evaluation decreases, resulting in useless, hopeless, helpless and worthless ideas.
The second manifestation of mental depression: mental retardation
Slow thinking, manifested as slow response, blocked thinking, conscious that "the brain is like a rusty machine", and the ability to work and study declines. Clinically, we can see that the active speech is reduced, the speech speed is obviously slowed down, the voice is low, and it is difficult to answer. In severe cases, communication cannot be carried out smoothly.
Manifestation of mental depression 3: Sleep disorder.
Deng Yongqing also mentioned that under the influence of mental stress, some people will have sleep disorders, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, constipation, skin inflammation, pain in any part of the body, loss of libido, impotence, amenorrhea and so on. Physical discomfort can involve multiple organs, such as nausea, vomiting, palpitation, chest tightness, sweating and so on. Symptoms of autonomic nervous dysfunction are also common.
Sleep disorders are mainly manifested as waking up early, generally 2 ~ 3 hours earlier than usual, and unable to fall asleep after waking up; Some show difficulty in falling asleep and lack of sleep; A few patients showed too much sleep. Weight loss is not necessarily proportional to loss of appetite, and a few patients may have increased appetite and weight gain.
Manifestation 4 of mental depression: avoiding social interaction
In addition, under the influence of mental stress, some people will live a passive and lazy life, do not want to do anything, do not want to get in touch with people around them, often sit alone, or lie in bed all day, live alone behind closed doors, alienate relatives and friends, and avoid socializing. Regardless of personal hygiene, no trimming, no trimming.
It is worth mentioning that such negative and pessimistic thoughts, self-reproach and self-reproach, and lack of self-confidence will all sprout despair. They believe that "ending one's own life is a relief" and "living in the world is a redundant person", which will make suicide attempts develop into suicide. Need special attention.
To relieve mental stress, we should pay attention to learning to adjust emotions.
Then, in the face of possible mental health diseases, how should we prevent and adjust them? Psychologist Jiang Guoqing said that the release of mental stress is mainly through emotional adjustment, and you can relax yourself through exercise.
He said that many people with depression are slow, sloppy and lazy. This long-term situation has not only seriously damaged their physical function, but also aggravated their negative emotions. When the body is relaxed, the heart will slowly relax and the mood will naturally be relieved.
For those who are depressed and have low self-esteem, Jiang Guoqing said that to change this vicious circle, you must force yourself to go out, make more contacts with friends, and take part in more social activities or travel. Although it will be very painful at first, as long as you persist for a period of time, negative emotional feelings will be slowly melted by the external environment and rekindled self-confidence.
In addition, he also mentioned that in order to eliminate depression, we must first stop complaining about ourselves and the world around us and make it clear that our cognitive mistakes come from thinking based on feelings. Because feelings are not equal to facts. "You might as well learn to praise yourself, appreciate yourself and treat bad stimuli calmly to keep your mood stable and happy."
Jiang Guoqing specially reminded that if you encounter mental stress problems, you can take the initiative to find a psychological counselor or psychologist to check and eliminate your worries, just like watching a cold. He said: "Often mental problems are manifested in the body, with symptoms such as insomnia, acne, backache and physical and mental fatigue. At this time, psychological problems may not be found in general hospitals, and you need to find a psychologist as soon as possible. "
The problem of symptom test for depression
Depression has always been a very common disease today. Suffering from depression in daily life will bring troubles to people's lives. Depression has many different manifestations in people, which is closely related to the different causes of the disease. In order to help you know whether you have related symptoms, we test whether your symptoms belong to depression through the depression symptom test.
Symptoms of depression:
The main clinical symptom of depression is obvious and persistent depression, which is the main type of mood disorder. Clinically, it can be seen that depression is not commensurate with its situation. Emotional depression can range from moping to grief-stricken, self-abased and depressed, even pessimistic and world-weary, and there may be suicide attempts or behaviors; Even appear stiff; Some cases have obvious anxiety and restlessness; In severe cases, mental symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions may occur. And each attack lasts at least 2 weeks, and even years for the elderly. Most cases tend to recur, most can be relieved, and some can have residual symptoms or become chronic.
The depression symptom test questions are as follows:
1. People are not happy when they are happy. I often feel depressed and sad about some small things, even for no reason.
2. I lost interest in my past hobbies, even hobbies and daily activities, and I was listless all day.
3. Life becomes lazy, slovenly, happy-go-lucky, not enterprising.
4. Long-term insomnia, especially characterized by early awakening, lasts for weeks or even months.
5. Thinking becomes dull and it is difficult to make a decision when something happens.
6. Always feel inferior, often blame yourself, always regret the past and lose confidence in the future.
7. I feel suspicious and always suspect that I am seriously ill. Although I have been conducting various tests, it is still difficult to explain my doubts.
8. Memory loss and frequent forgetfulness.
9. Bad temper, impatience and irritability, and difficulty in concentration.
10. Often confused and nervous.
1 1. Symptoms such as anorexia, nausea, abdominal distension or diarrhea, or stomachache often occur, but there is no obvious organic change during examination.
12. Some patients lose appetite and lose weight without obvious reasons.
13. I often feel very tired, lack of energy, and I can't do things.
14. Being indifferent, it is difficult to be interested in everything around, and I don't want to talk or do anything.
15. I feel headache, low back pain and general pain, but I can't find the organic cause.
16. Social activities are obviously reduced, and they are unwilling to associate with relatives and friends, or even behind closed doors.
17. Lose interest in sex.
18. I often feel empty involuntarily and feel that I am alive without value and meaning.
19. I often think of topics related to death.
If one of the above 19 items is particularly serious, or several items appear at the same time, it is likely to be a sign of depression, so be vigilant. Most patients with depression are accompanied by physical symptoms, such as sleep disorder, pain, fatigue, stomach discomfort, loss of appetite, palpitation and shortness of breath, and symptoms of various systems.
Through the symptom test of depression, you can quickly and effectively find out whether you really have depression. I hope everyone can pay attention to the emergence of depression, find the symptoms of depression as soon as possible and treat them, so as to reduce the harm caused by the disease to our human body. The sooner it is discovered, the easier it is to treat.
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