From 2065438 to 2009, Professor Huang Yueqin of Peking University Sixth Hospital published a research article in The Lancet Psychiatry, reporting the prevalence data of China Mental Health Survey (CMHS).
In China, the lifetime prevalence rate of depression is 6.9%, and the prevalence rate in1February is 3.6%. According to this data, so far, there are more than 95 million patients with depression in China.
Depression can affect others in many ways, such as depression (feeling gloomy in life for many days, losing desire and interest), mental retardation (thinking ability is greatly reduced, accompanied by memory loss), and decreased will activity (patients are slow-witted, passive, lazy, unwilling to do things, unwilling to contact with people around them, often sitting alone, or staying in bed all day, living alone behind closed doors, alienating relatives and friends, and avoiding social interaction).
However, the clinical diagnosis of depression sometimes does not have a complete set of standards, so it is often vague.
Because of this, people are constantly improving the evaluation scale of depression. Here, a new generation of American psychotherapists, Dr. David D. Burns of the University of Pennsylvania, designed a self-diagnosis form of depression-Burns Depression List (BDC), which can help you to quickly diagnose whether you have depression or not.
Please rate the items that suit your mood: none, mild 1, moderate 2, severe 3.
Sadness: Have you been feeling sad recently?
Despair: Do you feel that you have completely lost confidence and hope in life recently?
Inferiority: Do you think you are completely worthless and a loser?
Inferiority: Do you think you are not good enough and inferior to others?
Guilt: Do you think that almost everything will lead to self-blame?
Hesitation: Do you always hesitate to do things?
Anxiety: Do you always feel inexplicably agitated during this time?
Lose interest in life: Are you not interested in your career, family, hobbies or friends?
Lose motivation: Do you often feel depressed and have no motivation for many things?
Poor self-image: Do you feel unattractive?
1 Changes in appetite: Is there loss of appetite or sometimes overeating?
1 Sleep changes: Do you suffer from insomnia or drowsiness for a long time?
1 Loss of libido: Are you not interested in sex anymore?
1 paranoia: do you often worry about your health?
1 Suicide impulse: Do you always feel that you don't want to live, and have suicidal thoughts or motives?
After the test, please calculate your total score and rate your depression.
0 ~ 4 points, no depression;
5 ~ 10, occasionally depressed;
1 1 ~ 20 points, mild depression;
2 1 ~ 30, moderate depression;
3 1 ~ 45, severe depression.
The general symptoms of severe depression will be more obvious, so it is necessary to take medicine and cooperate with psychological counseling for patients with mild to moderate depression. Here are some suggestions:
Release emotions and refuse to suppress sigmund freud once said: Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are just buried alive and will appear in an ugly way in the future.
So, there are many emotions. We don't want to suppress them first, but allow all kinds of feelings. Only in this way can we not fall into the whirlpool of depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
American psychologist Louis Hay explains the causes of depression. When a person suppresses his anger for a long time, he will become depressed, and long-term depression will turn into depression.
So when depression happens, it's best to find someone you think you can trust to speak out, and at the same time learn to vent these pressures in a way that society allows.
Rejecting Perfectionism After seeing countless patients with depression, I found the fact that they are all very inspirational and never admit defeat.
An understanding of perfectionism in disease is that perfectionists seem to set high standards for themselves, but in fact they are very fragile because they are more accustomed to self-criticism and more afraid of failure than ordinary people.
Pursuing perfection is a self-protection mechanism, and there is a desire behind it: I hope I am a valuable person. At the same time, there is also a fear that I am not good enough and others will not recognize me.
Perfectionism can also lead a person to fall into the whirlpool of self-satisfaction and recognition, which is very dangerous.
There is a saying in the psychology of refusing guilt that people with depression are often kind people.
According to Freud's theory, they usually have a strong "superego". When encountering problems, they are usually too introspective and tend to find reasons from themselves.
Moderate guilt and self-reflection are conducive to introspection, but you should know that excessive introspection and guilt will lead to all attacks turning to yourself.
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This may be related to their growth in family of origin. For example, many people with depression have lived in a family full of "noble morality" since childhood. What is a virtuous family? Some parents will make their children feel that they need to constantly reflect on themselves and even admit their mistakes in order to make their children sensible.
Therefore, patients with depression should learn to look at problems objectively. When they fall into infinite regret, they'd better accept themselves first. At this time, if it is really your own problem, don't blame yourself too much and completely refuse to take responsibility for problems that are not your own.
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