“Most depressed patients do not receive proper diagnosis and standardized treatment, and among our clinics, many are already suicidal, which has actually reached a very serious level.” Yao Zhijian, director of the Depression Clinic, said many people know that the typical symptoms of depression are low mood and disinterest in everything, even things that used to interest them, and that it is extremely lethal.
Wake up early often to be on the alert for depression
Some telltale signs that can lead to early detection of depression.
For example, one clinical feature of depression is that the person presents with difficulty thinking in their head, feels hollow or frozen in their head, is unable to make appropriate statements, and is unable to communicate or interact with others. These patients can become sluggish and not want to move.
In addition, one study showed that about 50% of the first symptoms of depression are insomnia, and early awakening is particularly noteworthy.
So what is the concept of “early awakening”? Director Yao Zhijian said, if compared with the normal waking time, waking up 1 to 2 hours earlier, wake up and then difficult to fall asleep, and this situation continues for more than two weeks. “Especially after waking up early, one’s mood is depressed and there is little energy during the day. At this point, you should be on high alert, and a visit to a psychiatric psychiatrist is recommended to see if depression is present.
If you don’t intervene early, as the patient becomes more depressed, the early awakenings can become more severe, such as waking up earlier, becoming worse moods, etc. In turn, shorter sleep duration will affect the patient’s mood.
If you can’t find the cause of your malaise, you should also be aware of depression
There are many different clinical manifestations of depression, including an insidious form of depression that manifests itself mainly as a number of somatic symptoms. For example, the most common is chronic pain in various parts of the torso, especially the trunk and extremities are most common, “the most common, is the pain in the neck, shoulders and back”, said Director Yao Zhijian, in addition, there are breathing difficulties, sweating, weakness, stomach discomfort, palpitations, more frequent urination and other symptoms occur, the above-mentioned conditions can go to the general hospital of internal medicine In addition, there are symptoms such as dyspnea, sweating, weakness, stomach discomfort, palpitations and frequent urination. The repeated examination and treatment results are normal and no somatic disease is found, so you should go to a psychologist or psychiatrist for standardized treatment as soon as possible.
Director Yao Zhijian told a reporter about an aunt who had been feeling uncomfortable in her throat, always feeling like something was stuck in her throat and she couldn’t swallow it or spit it out. In the Chinese hospital, according to the “plum nuclear gas” treatment for 3 years, the effect is still not very obvious. After 3 months of treatment with antidepressants, the symptoms disappeared.
The following nine symptoms, if you have half of them, go see a doctor
1. Loss of interest in the most basic human desires, no interest in all social activities and interpersonal interactions, or even unwillingness to wash the face and brush the teeth, take a shower and cut the hair, and this lasts for more than two weeks.
2. Sudden and significant weight loss or weight gain that lasts more than two weeks.
3. Have severe sleep disturbances, either having great difficulty falling asleep or waking up at 2 or 3 in the middle of the night, or simply not being able to fall asleep all night for more than two weeks.
5. The whole person becomes mute and slow in thinking, speaking, and acting, and this lasts for more than two weeks.
6. Although you do nothing at the end of the day, you often feel very tired and exhausted, even if you are paralyzed in bed for a long time, or you are so tired that you can’t even get off the floor in severe cases, and it lasts for more than two weeks.
8. Inability to concentrate, always distracted by anything, even dyslexia, staring at the page for half a day without knowing what it means, unable to write a line with a pen or on the computer for half a day, and it lasts for more than two weeks.
9. The desire to hurt oneself, self-injurious behavior, and not feeling pain and uncomfortable, and in severe cases, recurrent thoughts of death, as if someone in your head always says, “Go to hell, go to hell! “, and it lasts for more than two weeks.