I feel so depressed, what should I do?

If you feel psychologically blocked and depressed in your life, you may be suffering from mild depression. Depression is generally a psychological illness. However, whether it is mild or severe, you must seek timely treatment, otherwise it will easily worsen the condition. You can participate in more outdoor sports, communicate more with family or friends, and build confidence in yourself.

These 4 symptoms indicate that you may be suffering from mild depression!

1. Loss of usual interests, becoming estranged from friends who were very close to you before, unwilling to participate in social activities, being indifferent to other people's affairs, not very willing to talk, and unwilling to see people. Even small tasks, such as doing laundry and taking out the trash, are a burden to them.

2. Slow thinking, persistent pessimism, sighing for no reason, feeling depressed and unable to extricate oneself.

3. Many times, it is difficult to concentrate on thinking about problems, and work and life become inefficient. It is also easy to feel inexplicably tired and powerless.

4. Frequent insomnia, difficulty falling asleep, shallow sleep with many dreams, easy awakening, early awakening and difficulty falling asleep again after waking up, falling into a sad atmosphere; in addition, some patients with depression may sleep too much and often fall asleep.

However, in life, most people lack understanding of depression, and don’t even know they are suffering from the disease, which greatly increases the difficulty of treatment. So today we will take a look at some common misunderstandings about depression.

1. Does depression mean unhappiness?

When it comes to depression, the word "unhappy" is probably too light. To be precise, it is a disease of "depression and despair."

Generally speaking, to define depression scientifically, three conditions must be met first.

1) Severe and long-lasting depression: People’s mood is like the weather to a certain extent, sometimes sunny, sometimes cloudy and sometimes rainy, so mood swings are actually very common. But people with depression are different from ordinary people. Their depression and despair are often very severe and last for a long time.

2) Depression has affected functions: that is, it has affected work and study. Many patients with depression also have problems with appetite, sleep, energy, etc. due to emotional disorders.

3) Rule out other factors: To confirm depression, some external factors must be ruled out, including recent stimulation, the effects of drugs, etc. For example, after losing a loved one, most people can get over it after a month or two. Depression diagnosis will only be considered when one is unable to recover on one's own for a long period of time (half a year, a year).

2. Can depression be treated by working harder?

It is a mistake to think that you can get out of depression by working hard.

It may be a good remedy for people who are slightly depressed; however, it is actually ineffective for depression. Excessive work, especially for men, is actually a clinical manifestation of depression.

3. Depression is not a disease?

Many people believe that depression is not a disease, but just an emotional state. It is this understanding that makes many patients unwilling to seek medical treatment, and eventually they fall deeper and deeper into the vortex of depression.

In fact, depression is a serious medical condition. It is different from general mood swings. People with depression will show abnormal conditions in brain imaging scans; in addition, the chemicals used to transmit information between nerve cells in the brain are also unbalanced. In general, there are more inhibitory substances than excitatory substances.