Looking at China again, because the diagnosis technology lags behind the western counterparts, the domestic people don't know enough about this disease, and even if they have depression, they rarely take the initiative to go to the hospital for treatment. The treatment rate of depression patients in China is only about 10%, which is far behind the treatment rate of depression patients in the world. It was not until the early 1990s that clinical medical researchers in China really began to pay attention to the treatment of depression.
Although modern people often talk about mental health and other issues, China people's attitude towards psychological problems is still very conservative. "Unless there are serious psychological problems, people will think of turning to a psychiatrist." Relevant authorities said, but at this time, the psychological problems of patients have been "deeply rooted" and the treatment is quite difficult. The reasons for this situation, on the one hand, stem from people's insufficient understanding of depression; On the other hand, it is the traditional discrimination against mental illness in China culture.
Statistics show that about 60% of China people don't know that they are suffering from depression. These people often feel that depression is just "hard to let go", a kind of "ideological problem" and "sub-health", not a disease. Professor Zheng Yi, vice president of Beijing Anding Hospital, said that patients with depression should see a doctor instead of a doctor, largely for fear of being discriminated against after seeing a doctor. In the medical field, this mentality is also called "shame", that is, more people regard receiving formal psychological diagnosis and treatment as a shame, and think that only "crazy people" will go to mental hospitals to see "heart disease", resulting in the reality that only patients with severe depression will go to hospitals for treatment.
However, in western developed countries, once people encounter psychological problems such as depression, emotional frustration and environmental discomfort, the first thing they think of is to find a psychological counselor. So far, 80% of Americans go to psychological clinics irregularly. As for the middle class in the United States, most of them have private counselors, who take psychological counseling as natural as eating.