These five symptoms indicate you are depressed!

Studies have shown that people who stay in a space with white and blue light for a long time are more likely to feel depressed, and their emotions will be affected by the environment. In this regard, a bad environment and one's own mental state are important factors in causing depression. So, what exactly is depression? What are the abnormal manifestations of patients with depression?

There are several manifestations of 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 low mood, patients will have a lower self-evaluation, a sense of uselessness, hopelessness, helplessness, and worthlessness, often accompanied by self-blame and guilt. Severe depression patients 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. Decline of volitional activity

When you have a decline in volitional activity, you should be careful and alert. Because patients with depression have significant and lasting suppression of volitional activity. Clinically, they behave slowly, live passively and lazily, do not want to do things, are unwilling to contact and interact with people around them, often sit alone, or lie in bed all day, live alone, alienate relatives and friends, and avoid socializing.

In severe cases, the patient may not even care about eating, drinking and other physiological needs or personal hygiene, and may be unkempt and unkempt, or even become speechless, immobile and unwilling to eat. This is called "depressive stupor." However, a careful mental examination shows that the patient still shows signs of painful depression. Patients with anxiety may have symptoms such as restlessness, finger grasping, rubbing hands and feet, or pacing.

Severe patients often have negative suicidal ideas or behaviors. Negative and pessimistic thoughts, self-blame and self-guilt, and lack of self-confidence can germinate despair, believing that "ending one's life is a kind of relief" and "one is a superfluous person in the world", and can make suicidal attempts develop into suicidal behaviors. This is the most dangerous symptom of depression and should be watched carefully.

4. Cognitive impairment

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.

5. Physical symptoms

The main physical manifestations are some sleep disorders, and often feel weak, loss of appetite, weight loss, and constipation. Pain in any part of the body, loss of libido, impotence, amenorrhea, etc. Physical complaints can involve various organs, such as nausea, vomiting, palpitations, chest tightness, sweating, etc. Symptoms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction are also common. The main complaints of pre-illness physical diseases usually worsen.

Sleep disorders are mainly manifested as early awakening, generally 2 to 3 hours earlier than usual, and inability to fall asleep again after waking up, which is characteristic of depressive episodes. Some patients have difficulty falling asleep and shallow sleep; a few patients have excessive sleep. Weight loss is not necessarily proportional to loss of appetite. A few patients may have increased appetite and weight gain.