Don't joke about depression, it's a disease and needs to be treated.

Have you listened to Internet Depression today?

NetEase Cloud Music was once called an "emotional tree hole" and was ridiculed by everyone. However, an inadvertent joke can become a lethal weapon for people with depression in a minute.

When it comes to depression, many people think of feeling down and not having the energy to do anything. However, depression can cause more than just these diseases. It can also cause physical symptoms such as loss of libido, slow thinking, fatigue, palpitations, chest tightness, gastrointestinal discomfort, and constipation. Depression can also affect a person's sleep. In severe cases, it can cause a person to have a strong sense of world-weariness and even suicide.

According to statistics, there are 400 million depression patients in the world, and 1 million people commit suicide due to depression in China every year.

Depression is a disease, also called depressive disorder, characterized by low mood and needs to be taken seriously. Each episode usually lasts for more than two weeks, but can also last for several years, and most episodes recur.

They become "autistic" when they are in public, and start to "suffer online depression" when the time comes... Although these are self-deprecating words of netizens, they are also a true portrayal of people with depression.

"Modern diseases" such as mobile phone addiction and social phobia, which cause social withdrawal, can easily lead to depression. When both addiction and fear are very strong, individuals are very likely to develop depression.

Of course, this is not the only cause of the disease. Studies have found that heredity is one of the causes of depression. People with a family history of depression are more likely to get the disease and need to pay special attention.

Secondly, depression is unevenly distributed in terms of gender. This is related to the influence of sex hormones, and the ratio of depression disorders in adult women to men is about 2:1.

In addition, people who have been treated poorly physically or mentally as children are more likely to develop depression in adulthood. In adulthood, being in a bad marriage or financial situation for a long time will also increase the risk of depression.

Finally, there are personality factors. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and impulsiveness are more likely to develop depressive disorders. Excessive pursuit of perfection and inability to tolerate one's own shortcomings will cause psychological torment, and over time, they will be prone to depression.

There are often no obvious pathological features in the early stages of depression. Patients often go to various clinics for treatment due to physical discomfort or pain, but they do not know that these discomforts and pains are caused by depression. What's more, there is "smiling depression". Some people have to keep smiling during the day because of work needs, but this is not a true expression of their emotions, but a "burden". Behind the smiling mask is deep despair.

Depression can be divided into unipolar and bipolar. Unipolar depression refers to cases of simple depressive episodes without manic episodes, which may be a single episode or multiple recurrences. The characteristic of bipolar depression is that mania and depression appear alternately, like shuttling back and forth between peaks and troughs. It can be seen that the treatment of depression needs to be treated differently and "the right medicine for the right disease".

Depression patients are often too shy or embarrassed to seek treatment, but people with depression often cannot overcome it by willpower alone. Currently, there are effective treatments for depression, and at least 85% of people can recover if they adhere to systematic treatment.

If you feel depressed, you should contact your doctor and find a treatment plan as soon as possible.

Source: "Eight-Minute Comic Book on Office Workers' Health" (written by Lai Guangqiang and Xu Qiuli, illustrated by Dongdong Miao, Science and Technology Literature Press, 2023)

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Source: Dongdongmiao