What are the symptoms of senile depression?

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With the increase of China's aging, geriatric depression is also increasing. If the elderly at home suffer from geriatric depression, it will not only bring great inconvenience to the elderly themselves, but also bring great trouble to their children. What are the manifestations of geriatric depression? How to treat senile depression? Now let's have a look!

What are the symptoms of senile depression?

That is hypochondriac symptoms. The main symptoms were autonomic nervous system symptoms. Hypochondriasis often involves digestive system symptoms, especially constipation, gastrointestinal discomfort is one of the common and early symptoms of such patients. In the early stage of depression, patients will start with a kind of less serious body disease, and have excessive reaction to the excessive attention of normal body function. In this case, senile depression should be considered.

It's anxiety and excitement. Agitation depression increased with age. Anxiety is often more serious secondary symptoms of depression, may also become the main symptoms of patients. It is manifested in anxiety and fear, worry about misfortune for oneself and family all day long, big disaster coming, wriggling hands and feet, restlessness and constant panic.

Insomnia at night, or repeatedly recalling the past unpleasant things, blame yourself for doing wrong, leading to the misfortune of family and other people, sorry for relatives, not interested in everything in the environment. In the light cases, they chatter about their experiences and "tragic circumstances" and seek safe people or places. In the heavy cases, they strangle their necks, get electrocuted, tear their clothes, pull their hair, tumble all over the floor, feel anxious and even attempt suicide.

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That is the behavior block of depression. It is usually characterized by lack of and slow movement at will, which affects the body and limb activities, and is accompanied by decreased facial expression and speech block. Most of the elderly patients with depression are melancholy, melancholy, uninterested, slow thinking, often do not reply immediately to questions, repeatedly asked, only to reply in short and weak words, thinking content is poor. Most of the time, the patient was silent and slow. The most important thing is to gaze with both eyes, be indifferent to the outside world. There is a consistent relationship between behavioral retardation and mental retardation in depression.