What is "sunshine depression"?
This is a popular saying, which means that people with depression hide their depressed side, only show their sunny side to others, and let others think that they are living happily, so it is difficult to find the symptoms of depression in time, and it is also difficult to get help from the outside world, which makes it easier to fall into isolation and helplessness, and the negative emotions that have not been vented for a long time continue to accumulate, forming great pressure.
Ordinary depression patients are easy to be detected, but sunshine depression is difficult to be detected. They are smiling and happy most of the day, but behind this, they feel pain, depression, worthlessness, sadness and despair. They take a smile as their protective clothing, which is very hidden, and people around them can't find signs of depression for the first time.
CoCo Lee is a typical example. Many netizens commented that they couldn't believe it, because CoCo Lee looked so sunny and cheerful. I didn't expect that she was also a depressed patient, serious enough to commit suicide.
People who are suppressed by the sun usually have an idea of forcing themselves to satisfy others, such as being generous, polite, well-dressed, kind and tolerant, and being a good daughter-in-law who satisfies their mother-in-law ... These are all their requirements for themselves, which they think are right and deeply rooted.
In order to maintain their good image in the eyes of others, they will deliberately hide their emotions. When the pressure is unbearable, their reaction is huge, and they may change from an extremely confident person to a very inferior person, and even doubt their abilities in all aspects.
People with sunshine depression can't express their psychological feelings. They have such needs, but they don't speak, and they are too lazy to express, vent and ask for help.
They smile brightly during the day, even when their own interests are damaged, they still smile and pretend not to care, but this smile is not from the heart.
Because it is difficult to be identified, patients with "smile depression" are prone to delay their illness under pressure and misunderstanding, and will not be discovered and admitted until they do some excessive behavior. This has also caused many regrettable tragedies. ...
Typical symptoms of sunshine depression:
Depression is a common mental illness with various symptoms and great individual differences, but it can be roughly divided into the following categories.
1.？ Keep smiling: Although you feel sad, anxious and depressed, you still smile and even create the illusion of cheerfulness and enthusiasm, which is unique to this disease.
2. Mood depression: this is the core symptom, which is mainly manifested as significant and lasting depression and pessimism, with different degrees. Light people will be depressed, lack of happiness and lack of interest, while heavy people will feel pessimistic, desperate and miserable.
3. Thinking disorder: Patients often feel dull, empty-headed, unresponsive and unable to remember things. Thinking content is pessimistic and negative. In severe cases, patients even have delusions and other mental symptoms, such as suspecting that they are seriously ill, referring to delusions, poverty delusions, victimization delusions, etc. And some patients may have hallucinations, often auditory hallucinations.
4. Decline of will activity: manifested as lack of will and motivation to do things. For example, life is lazy, I don't want to socialize, I spend a long time alone, and when it is serious, I don't care about personal hygiene, and I don't even talk, move or eat.
5. Cognitive impairment: mainly manifested as memory loss, attention loss, always recalling unhappy things in the past, or always thinking about pessimistic things.
6. Physical symptoms: Common symptoms include sleep disorder, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, constipation, pain (anywhere in the body), loss of libido, impotence, amenorrhea and autonomic nervous dysfunction.
The above symptoms last for more than two weeks or intermittently for half a year, which belongs to a typical sunshine depression state. If you have these symptoms but can't be relieved by sleep and rest, I hope you will bravely stand up and ask for help! For family, for the world, cherish yourself!
Depression is a real disease, and it is a very harmful disease, but it is not an incurable disease. More than 80% of patients with depression can recover from treatment. Although the process is long, the truly cured patients can completely return to their normal work and life, and when encountering setbacks, those who have experienced the trough are sometimes stronger than ordinary people.
If relatives and friends around you have emotional problems, or have begun to talk to you and ask for help, you must maintain a supportive and understanding attitude, show more concern and companionship, and help him seek the help of professional doctors in time when necessary to overcome emotional difficulties.