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Feel depressed. This is the most important feature of patients with depression. The light person is in a bad mood, distressed and sad, and sighs all day long.
Serious people are depressed, pessimistic, desperate and suicidal.
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Lack of pleasure. Loss of interest in daily life, lack of fun in all kinds of entertainment or pleasant things. Lighter people try to avoid social activities; In severe cases, people live alone behind closed doors, alienate relatives and friends and stop socializing.
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Persistent fatigue with no obvious reason. Lighter people feel tired, unable to do their job, and lose enthusiasm and initiative in life and work; The worst thing is that you can't even take care of eating, drinking and personal hygiene.
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Sleep disorder. About 70% ~ 80% of patients with depression are accompanied by sleep disorders. Patients usually have no difficulty in falling asleep, but they wake up after a few hours, so they are called early morning insomnia, midway awakening and terminal insomnia, and they are depressed after waking up. Anxiety patients have difficulty falling asleep and have many nightmares. A few patients with depression sleep too much, which is called "narcolepsy depression".
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Change of appetite. It is characterized by eating less and losing weight. Serious people don't think about tea and rice all day, but there are also a few patients with increased appetite.
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Physical discomfort, depression patients generally have physical discomfort. Patients often check and treat unexplained pain, fatigue, sleep disorder, throat and chest urgency, constipation, indigestion, flatulence, palpitation, shortness of breath and other diseases, but most symptomatic treatments are ineffective.
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Low self-evaluation. Lighter people have a sense of inferiority, uselessness and worthlessness; In the worst case, they say they are useless, have a strong sense of guilt and self-blame, and even choose suicide as a way of self-punishment.
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Suicide thoughts and behaviors are the most dangerous behaviors of depression. Patients with severe depression often choose to commit suicide to get rid of their own pain.
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Others. Elderly patients with depression may also have symptoms such as agitation, anxiety, low libido and memory loss.
If you have depression with the above three symptoms for more than two weeks, you can conclude that it is depression after excluding other diseases.
We might as well use the above performance comparison to check our lifestyle and behavior norms, and then make a judgment on whether we have mental illness. If you have signs of depression, you'd better consult a psychologist.
Treatment measures
Psychological counseling, behavioral therapy, family therapy, diet therapy, music therapy, drug therapy.
Depression mainly changes people's mood and does not affect people's intellectual and physical development. Therefore, patients who have suffered from depression can live and work with peace of mind as long as they are actively treated.