What are the triggers of intermittent depression?

As the name suggests, intermittent depression is a condition that is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Often, patients will be very good at one moment and very bad at another. This intermittent symptom is the symptom of intermittent depression. So what are the causes of intermittent depression?

What are the causes of intermittent depression?

The causes of intermittent depression may be multifaceted. For example, patients with intermittent depression are always worried about a certain detail happening, and the details they pay attention to are also very strange. What's even stranger is that they often fantasize that something will appear, or something may appear, but they think it shouldn't appear and worry about it appearing.

Patients with intermittent depression are prone to fantasy

For example, when a patient with intermittent depression is walking on the road, he clearly knows that a car is likely to appear at the corner, but he thinks it is impossible at that moment, but he is afraid that it will appear. Then, when a car or something very similar to his fantasy appears, the patient with intermittent depression will feel depressed at that moment. However, depression also has different degrees. For the same person, a mild case can recover in a few days or even minutes, while a severe case can be as mentioned above. It can be seen that different people are affected differently by the same thing.

It takes several days, a month or even years to recover from intermittent depression, and some may never recover in their lifetime. Unlike latent depression, patients with intermittent depression can remain normal unless they encounter temptations, and may even have the genius vision of latent depression. However, once they encounter temptations, patients with intermittent depression will collapse immediately.

There is one more difference:

Latent depression is a large amount of information rushing into the brain, accompanied by emotional collapse, while intermittent depression is an emotional shock directly caused by inducements, without receiving a large amount of or even a little information. It is like siege, the former is to break through the internal limit from the outside, while the latter is the internal collapse first.

Latent depression can lead to crazy or even self-abuse emotions, while intermittent depression only produces a deep sense of powerlessness. Afterwards, they often isolate themselves until they recover. Some will slowly sink into depression, with their behavior becoming increasingly slow, and they may even be unable to take care of themselves.

Warm reminder from psychiatric experts:

Intermittent depression must be treated in time. Generally speaking, patients with intermittent depression will not have self-abuse mentality and behavior, but if patients with intermittent depression allow the symptoms to develop slowly, their behavior and thoughts will be like those of idiots, and they will be unable to take care of themselves. Therefore, we ask patients to let doctors help them find the cause of intermittent depression, so as to avoid the occurrence of symptoms.