Symptoms and causes of depression!

Depression is a mental illness of mood disorder. Patients are often in a low mood. Depression not only brings great psychological burden to patients, but also causes great harm to their families. When facing depression, first of all, we should understand the symptoms and causes of depression.

Experts say that it is key to detect depression in time and be familiar with its typical symptoms:

1. Depressed mood. It means that you cannot feel happy, always feel sad, or even pessimistic. Lin Daiyu in Dream of the Red Chamber, who frowns and sighs all day long and sheds tears at any time, is a typical example.

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

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

It is rare to find patients with the above typical symptoms. Many patients only have one or two of them, and the severity varies from person to person. Depression, anxiety, loss of interest, lack of energy, pessimism, low self-esteem, etc. are all common symptoms of depression. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish them from a general short-term bad mood. Here is a simple method to introduce to you: If the above discomfort is severe in the morning and partially relieved in the afternoon or evening, then you are more likely to suffer from depression. This is the so-called rhythmic change of depression, which is worse during the day and lighter at night.

The above explanation can not only help patients to detect depression in time, but also make everyone fully aware of the serious harm caused by this disease. Therefore, it is very important to understand the cause of depression and do effective prevention work in life.

Specific causes of depression

1. Genetic factors

Genetic epidemiological surveys of large sample populations show that the closer the blood relationship with the patient, the higher the probability of disease. The probability of first-degree relatives being sick is much higher than that of other relatives, which is consistent with the general law of genetic diseases.

2. Social environment

Various unexpected events, unsatisfactory life, unsatisfactory work, family breakdown, etc. may all cause depression.

3. Bad habits

Improper use and abuse of drugs, alcoholism, and the use of certain bad habits to alleviate emotional loneliness and helplessness are vicious factors that aggravate depression.

4. Disease

There are also many patients who suffer from long-term diseases such as cerebral thrombosis, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, etc. and develop depression due to the torture of the disease.

Understanding the causes of depression can not only help people avoid the disease, but is also very important for the treatment of the disease. This is one of the keys for patients to completely get rid of depression and avoid relapse.