What is depressive symptom?

Update Date: 2023-04-12 Source: Network

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Depression, also known as depressive disorder, is the main type of mood disorder, which is characterized by significant and lasting depression. Clinically, depression is not commensurate with the situation. Depression can change from melancholy to grief, low self-esteem, depression, even pessimism, suicide attempt or behavior; Even the occurrence of numbness; Some patients had obvious anxiety and motor agitation; Serious person can appear hallucination, delusion and other psychotic symptoms. Each attack lasts for at least 2 weeks, the elderly or even several years. Most of the cases have the tendency of repeated attacks. Most of the attacks can be relieved, and some of them may have residual symptoms or become chronic. What is depressive symptom? Let's talk about it

What is depressive symptom?

The main performance is significant and lasting emotional depression, depression and pessimism. Light people are unhappy, unhappy, and their interests are declining, while heavy people are depressed, pessimistic, and desperate. The depressive mood of typical patients has the rhythm of morning heavy and night light. On the basis of low mood, patients will have lower self-evaluation, a sense of uselessness, hopelessness, helplessness and worthlessness, often accompanied by self accusation, delusion of guilt and hypochondriac delusion in serious cases, and hallucination in some patients.

The patient's will activity was significantly inhibited. Clinical manifestations: slow behavior, passive life, lazy, do not want to do things, do not want to contact with people around, often sitting alone, or lying in bed all day, living alone, alienating relatives and friends, avoiding social contact. In severe cases, they even ignore the physiological needs such as eating and drinking and personal hygiene. They are unkempt and slovenly, and even develop into silence, immobility and non eating, which is called "depressive stupor". However, after careful mental examination, the patients still show pain and depression. Patients with anxiety may have symptoms such as restlessness, finger grasping, rubbing hands and feet or pacing up and down. Serious patients are often accompanied by negative suicidal ideas or behaviors. According to the survey, 287000 people die of suicide every year in China, 63% of them have mental disorders and 40% suffer from depression[ 12] Many celebrities commit suicide due to depression, including van Gogh, Hemingway, Sanmao, Zhang Guorong, [12] Xu Xing, Li Xiao, Robin Williams, Qiao Renliang, etc. Negative and pessimistic thoughts, self accusation and lack of self-confidence can germinate the idea of despair, believing that "ending one's own life is a relief", "one's own life is superfluous", and will make suicide attempts develop into suicidal behaviors. This is the most dangerous symptom of depression, we should be vigilant.

matters needing attention

It was found that 75% to 80% of the patients relapsed many times, so the patients with depression need preventive treatment. The patients should be treated for more than 3 times, even for life. Most mathematicians think that the dose of maintenance treatment drugs should be the same as the treatment dose, and regular outpatient follow-up should be carried out. Psychotherapy and social support system also play a very important role in preventing the recurrence of this disease. We should try our best to relieve or reduce the patients' heavy psychological burden and pressure, help them solve the practical difficulties and problems in life and work, improve their coping ability, and actively create a good environment for them to prevent recurrence.