The higher the status and the more educated one is, the more likely one is to suffer from smiling depression?

In society, people have different identities because of their different jobs and different personal wealth accumulation. Psychologists say that the higher the status, the more likely they are to suffer from mental illnesses, such as smiling depression. Correspondingly, the more educated people are, the more likely they are to suffer from this disease. Why is this?

What is Smiling Depression?

"Smiling depression" is a type of depression, a new type of depression that often occurs in urban white-collar workers or service industries. Due to "work needs", "face needs", "etiquette needs", and "dignity and responsibility needs", they smile most of the time during the day. This "smile" is not a true feeling from the bottom of their hearts, but a burden, which becomes emotional depression over time. "Habitual smiling expression" cannot eliminate the pressure, worries, and sorrows brought by work, life, etc., but only makes them more depressed and painful.

Performance

Mr. Shen, a psychological counselor, said that there is a term called "smiling depression" in medicine. In order to maintain their good image in the eyes of others, patients often deliberately conceal their emotions and force themselves to smile. When the pressure is too great to bear, their reactions are also huge, with emotional disorders. They may change from an extremely confident person to a very inferior person, and even doubt their abilities in all aspects.

Target

"Smiling depression" often occurs among successful people with high status, high education and successful careers. There are more men than women. They may be senior officials in government agencies, bosses in enterprises, or high-level technical personnel. These people give people the impression that they can call the shots, can do anything, and are very powerful. Their abilities seem unquestionable. However, the fact is that these people are confused, distressed, helpless, and sad just like ordinary people. However, in order to maintain their "face" as "capable people" and "strong people", they are unwilling to confide these negative emotions to others, and they keep accumulating pain, depression, worry and sadness in their hearts. Therefore, most of these people are bound by the concept of "face", and they play the role of perseverance and strength on the surface, and bear the pressure.