What are the symptoms of depression? These four are the most typical

Depression is a mental disorder with a high incidence rate in life. It is most likely to occur in men. So, what are the symptoms of men suffering from depression?

1. Depressed mood

The main manifestations are significant and lasting emotional depression, pessimism. Mild cases are unhappy, unhappy, and have a loss of interest. Severe cases are in agony, pessimistic, and desperate. The depressed mood of typical patients has a rhythmic change from heavier in the morning to lighter at night. On the basis of the depressed mood, the patient will have a lower self-evaluation, a sense of uselessness, hopelessness, helplessness, and worthlessness, often accompanied by self-blame and guilt. Severe cases have delusions of guilt and hypochondria, and some patients may have hallucinations.

2. Slow thinking

The patient's thinking speed is slow, reaction is slow, and thinking is blocked. He feels that "the brain is like a rusty machine" and "the brain is like a layer of paste". Clinically, active speech is reduced, the speed of speech is significantly slowed down, the voice is low, and it is difficult to answer. In severe cases, communication cannot be carried out smoothly.

3. Decreased volitional activity

The patient's volitional activities show significant and lasting inhibition. Clinically, the patient behaves slowly, lives passively and lazily, does not want to do things, is unwilling to contact and interact with people around him, often sits alone, or stays in bed all day, lives alone with the door closed, alienates relatives and friends, and avoids socializing. In severe cases, even physiological needs such as eating and drinking and personal hygiene are ignored, and the patient is unkempt and unkempt, and even develops into silence, immobility, and refusal to eat, which is called "depressive stupor." However, after careful mental examination, the patient still reveals painful depression. Patients with anxiety may have symptoms such as restlessness, finger grasping, rubbing hands and feet, or pacing. Severe patients are often accompanied by negative suicidal ideas or behaviors. Negative and pessimistic thoughts, self-blame and self-guilt, and lack of self-confidence can lead to despair, believing that "ending one's life is a kind of liberation" and "one is superfluous in the world", and can lead to suicide attempts developing into suicide behaviors. This is the most dangerous symptom of depression and should be watched out for.

4. Impairment of cognitive function

Studies have shown that patients with depression have cognitive impairment. The main manifestations are decreased recent memory, attention disorders, prolonged reaction time, increased alertness, poor abstract thinking ability, learning difficulties, poor language fluency, spatial perception, eye-hand coordination, and decreased thinking flexibility. Cognitive impairment leads to social dysfunction in patients and affects their long-term prognosis.