What are the symptoms of chronic depression?

Chronic depression is also a type of depression, which mainly refers to the chronicity of depression. Depression is one of the mental illnesses that needs to be taken seriously. Patients will show symptoms of varying degrees. So what symptoms do patients with chronic depression have?

Symptoms of chronic depression

Depression:

Many people are familiar with depression, but chronic depression is fundamentally different from general "unhappiness". It has obvious characteristics and has three main symptoms: low mood, slow thinking and motor inhibition.

Being depressed means not being happy, always feeling sad, or even pessimistic. Lin Daiyu in Dream of the Red Chamber, who frowned and sighed all day long and shed tears at every turn, is a typical example.

Slow thinking:

Slow thinking means that the patient feels that the brain is not working well, cannot remember things, and has difficulty thinking. The patient feels that the brain is empty and has become stupid.

Motor inhibition means being inactive, feeling lazy, walking slowly, talking less, etc. In severe cases, the patient may not eat or move, and cannot take care of himself.