Psychological counselor: Strictly speaking, suicide due to depression can only be intervened in hospital, and others are best not to be hospitalized. Hospitalization will only aggravate the condition and is very dangerous.
Counselor: You can't put her in a mental hospital. If you feel better after you leave the hospital, it's just the medicine. Depression is actually a psychological problem, which leads to pathological changes in brain media.
Me: But I heard that many people are hospitalized or even isolated. I also think this kind of treatment is counterproductive.
2. Accompanying with depression
Counselor: Once depression is diagnosed, the patient's inner world is black, which is invisible to our normal world outlook. So what is needed is the warmth and care of family members.
Me: But this is very difficult. Ordinary family members don't know psychology, don't know the disease of depression, can't understand their behavior at all, and even scold them and think they make a mountain out of a molehill.
Counselor: So communicate with your family.
Me: I think many family members can't accept patients with depression unconditionally. Because their behavior and language are very frustrating, even their parents may not accept it.
Counselor: The process of treatment is long and painful. There is no way, but always remind yourself that the other party is sick.
Me: I think if one spouse has this disease, the other spouse is unlikely to persist and will definitely want to escape.
3. On the establishment of community for patients with depression.
Me: I want to form a group to let depressed patients and volunteers come in, and everyone will hold a group to keep warm. Do you think this is realistic? Recently, I saw that many relatives and friends around me were troubled by depression. I have experienced this emotion myself, and I know the pain deeply.
Counselor: I think your idea is very good. I just want to give you comfort, but I don't recommend it. Don't think of depression as a psychological problem or lack of sunshine. Because of his long-term emotional accumulation, he has really changed his brain medium. So if there is no professional person to help you guide in the group, in fact, the problem will be great.
Me: So, can this group only play the role of companionship? Don't instruct others. I just think there are too few people in the world who really understand their pain. But they can understand each other and their rehabilitation experience can be used for reference.
Consultant: To be honest, it is still not recommended. Someone has done a similar group before. Then many people in the group are depressed patients, and their inner world is dark. Therefore, this group does not have much positive energy, which will actually make their mood lower and the whole energy field will be very low.
Me: Mm-hmm, you're right. This is the biggest risk. The energy field will be lower, which may be more unfavorable to recovery.
Consultant: I still suggest that professional things should be done by professional people. This depression should be very, very cautious. Someone has built such a group before, and then one person in the group can't get through it. He was in the group and filmed his suicide! Do you know what will happen next? There have been several suicides in succession, which is really not recommended.
Consultant: a group with a particularly low energy field, the result is very terrible. Many people wanted to build this group before, and the final result was very bad. So now that we are in this industry, we won't put customers together, because they are a situation and can't be with people with such special emotions.
4. Personal feelings
The ideal is full and the reality is skinny. After this conversation, I finally know why we seldom hear about this kind of community, because professionals don't do such things. Fortunately, I consulted this friend first, otherwise I might make a big mistake because of loneliness. A little knowledge is not enough to do one thing, I must accumulate more knowledge.
I think there are always other ways, at least, what can be done to make people know more about this disease, prevent it in advance, find it early, know the role of companionship as relatives and friends, and try to find and collect this rehabilitation information.
I will continue to pay attention to this matter, and I hope that friends who are troubled by depression can get out of the predicament as soon as possible.