What are the emotional manifestations of depression?

Depression is a common psychiatric disease recognized by the World Health Organization. Many people who suffer from severe depression commit suicide, choosing to end their lives to get rid of their physical and mental torture. Therefore, many people are very afraid of depression. So why do people get depression?

1. Clinical genetic studies have shown that depressive episodes are related to genetic factors. If there is a depressed patient in the family, the risk of other family members getting the disease will increase. If one of the parents suffers from depression, the probability of the children getting the disease is 25%; if both parents are depressed patients, the probability of the children getting the disease increases to 50%-75%.

2. Among the causes of depression, physical diseases have a greater impact, such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, chronic pain, diabetes, hormone disorders and advanced diseases. The series of symptoms brought about by these diseases often make patients feel apathetic or unable to meet their basic physiological needs.

3. Inferior self-esteem, sensitivity, timidity, negative outlook on problems, poor grasp of life events, and excessive worry. These personality characteristics will aggravate the stimulation of psychological stress events, and the probability of depression is relatively high.

4. Social and psychological factors such as interpersonal relationships, work pressure, family conflicts, etc. may lead to the occurrence of depression. Studies have shown that smoking, alcoholism and drug abuse may also cause depression or anxiety.

Affective depression is a common type of depression, and most patients belong to this type. At present, many patients do not know which type of depression they belong to, so the treatment is often not targeted. Affective depression is relatively easy to distinguish. As long as you understand its characteristics, you can easily distinguish it.