Treatment methods for depression

Depression is a mental illness. Many people develop different symptoms due to different types of depression. People with depression live in their own world every day. They have no way to control some inexplicable thoughts and behaviors. Some patients need to rely on medication all year round to get some sleep. What is the treatment for depression?

Treatment

1. Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy can help everyone with depression. However, for patients with severe depression, supportive psychotherapy alone is not enough, and antidepressant treatment or electroconvulsive therapy must be given simultaneously. Psychotherapy is best for patients with mild depression, those in remission, and those with chronic depression.

2. Electroconvulsive therapy

It can be used for patients with depression who have serious passive suicidal attempts and those who have not responded to antidepressant treatment. This method of treating depression is fast-acting and has good efficacy, with 6-10 times as a course of treatment. After electroconvulsive therapy, maintenance medication is still needed.

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Mental depression requires longer hospitalization and close follow-up by a doctor. The combined use of antidepressants and antipsychotics is more effective. Conductive spasm therapy is also effective.

Treatment Effects

The treatment effect on mental depression is obvious, and patients can usually recover within a year, but follow-up treatment is still required after discharge. The treatment for dysthymia is very different from that for other depressions, and the risk of suicide is high, so the diagnosis of dysthymia is very important.

Self-treatment

With the aging of my country's population, the number of cases of mental depression is gradually increasing. The effect of this disease relying solely on drug treatment is often not very obvious. If it is combined with self-treatment, good results can be achieved. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this condition is caused by liver depression and qi stagnation, and spleen and stomach disharmony, and has accumulated a lot of experience in self-treatment.

1. Daily health care: Keep a cheerful mood and participate in more group activities, such as dancing and singing! Add some hobbies, try to participate in some work within your ability, and strive to resist aging mentally and physically! Talk more with your family and share your worries. Spend more time with young people and you can be infected by their vitality.

2. Eat more calcium-containing foods, such as soybeans and soy products, red dates, leeks, celery, garlic sprouts, fish, shrimps, sesame seeds, rock sugar, honey, walnuts, bananas, milk, etc. Avoid alcohol, coffee and other foods. If you overuse your brain before a meal, are emotionally excited or angry during a meal, or use your brain or work hard immediately after a meal, it will not be conducive to the disappearance of symptoms.

3. When practicing Tai Chi, try to achieve unity of mind, intention, qi and form.

4. Music therapy: Listen to cheerful and cheerful music several times a day.

5. Breath Contemplation The Breath Contemplation is a method of purifying the mind in mind reshaping therapy. The quality of breathing represents the quality of life. Breathing accompanies the beginning and end of life. Exhalation and inhalation are called "breath".

Patients with depression can practice breath observation in the morning and evening. When practicing, gently close your eyes and focus on your breathing. No matter what thoughts arise, you must accept them without pushing, resisting or entangled. All you need to do is to observe your breathing purely. You can sit cross-legged for twenty minutes as a basis. After half a month to a month, the practice time can be extended to forty minutes to one hour.

6. Meditation Meditation is a very good behavior of body, mind and spirit cultivation. It has been widely used in psychotherapy and spiritual growth activities. Meditation can reduce tension, anxiety, depression and other emotions. Regular practice of meditation will enhance consciousness and help patients with depression gain enlightenment.

7. Read more books. Reading is beneficial. Reading more books on psychology, philosophy, Taoism, and Buddhism can improve our wisdom, allow us to have a deeper understanding of ourselves and life, and transcend the limitations of past thinking.

8. Self-massage and rub Guanyuan: overlap your hands and press them on the Guanyuan acupoint, rotating clockwise and counterclockwise for fifty circles each, from light to heavy, from slow to fast. Once a day. Guanyuan is located three inches vertically below the navel in the lower abdomen, that is, four horizontal fingers below the navel. It is one of the four major health-preserving acupuncture points in ancient times. (The other three acupoints are Zusanli, Gaohuangshu and Bailao). Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Guanyuan is located in the Ren meridian, and has the functions of promoting digestion, correcting endocrine disorders, and anti-aging.

9. Medicinal Diet Suanzaoren Porridge [Ingredients] 15 grams of Suanzaoren powder and 100 grams of polished rice. [Preparation] First, add glutinous rice and water to cook porridge until it is almost done, then add the ground jujube kernels and cook for a while. [Usage] Take warm in the morning and evening. [Function] Nourishes the heart, calms the mind, and reduces sweating. Palpitations, insomnia, and nightmares. Ziziphus jujuba kernels can be used raw or fried. Frying for too long will destroy the effective ingredients. You can stir-fry the Chinese jujube kernels for a while and then grind them into powder. You can use a rolling pin to grind them at home.