How to diagnose and treat depression

I wonder if you have ever learned about depression in your daily life? In fact, many people are affected by depression nowadays. If you want effective diagnosis and treatment, you should pay attention to timely detection. If you are always in a low mood or always feel depressed, you should pay attention.

1. The degree of depression varies, ranging from mild bad mood to sadness, pessimism, and despair. Patients feel heavy-hearted, life is meaningless, they cannot be happy, they are unhappy, the days are long like years, the pain is unbearable, and they cannot extricate themselves. Some patients may also experience anxiety, irritability, and nervousness.

2. Loss of interest is one of the common symptoms of depression. Patients lose their enthusiasm and pleasure in their previous life and work, have no interest in anything, cannot experience the joy of family, are dismissive of their previous hobbies, often live alone, alienate relatives and friends, and avoid socializing. Patients often complain of "no emotions", "emotional numbness", and "can't be happy anymore".

3. Loss of energy, fatigue, difficulty in washing, dressing and other daily tasks, and inability to do them. Patients often use "mental breakdown" and "deflated ball" to describe their condition.

4. Low self-evaluation: Patients tend to overly belittle their own abilities, and view their present, past and future with a critical, negative and negative attitude. They think nothing is right and that nothing is right. They describe themselves as worthless and their future as bleak. They have strong self-blame, guilt, a sense of uselessness, worthlessness and helplessness. In severe cases, they may develop self-blame and hypochondriasis.

5. The patient presents a significant, persistent, and general state of depression, difficulty concentrating, memory loss, slow thinking, blocked thinking, and slow movements, but some patients show restlessness, anxiety, tension, and agitation.

6. Negative and pessimistic: The person is extremely miserable, pessimistic, and hopeless. He feels that life is a burden and not worth lingering on. He seeks relief through death and may have strong suicidal thoughts and behaviors.