What are the signs of depression?

Mondo Health Updated on 2024-01-31

Depression is an increasingly common psychological disorder, but awareness of it is still limited. While the general public is no stranger to the concept of depression, little is known about how to prevent it. In fact, the prevention and treatment of depression focuses on prevention in advance, because there are symptoms before the onset of depression. Adaptability refers to the various adaptive changes made by individuals in order to better survive in society, which involves multiple levels such as psychology, physiology and behavior. Adaptability includes self-care ability, labor ability, vocational ability, social ability and self-discipline ability. However, maladjustment is an important pre-depressive feature, and it manifests itself at an early age.

In addition, people with depression often lack self-knowledge before the onset of the disease and are unable to make an accurate assessment of their abilities and personalities. They are either conceited or have low self-esteem, and their personality traits are unstable. When it comes to life goals, they tend to be ambitious, unrealistic, or overly pessimistic, exaggerating life's difficulties and disasters.

At the same time, they are often detached from reality, and their life goals and content are out of touch with reality. When it comes to interpersonal relationships, they often fail to integrate into mainstream social groups and have poor interpersonal relationships. When it comes to learning, they also have a reduced ability to learn effective skills from life experiences. Emotional instability is also an important manifestation of depression. They are often in negative emotions, showing emotional states such as low self-esteem, depression, cowardice, withdrawal, apathy, pessimism, dependence, sensitivity, conceit, ego, suspiciousness, anxiety, etc. In addition, they often behave in a way that prevents them from being able to exert their individuality to the limits of their social environment.

In summary, patients with depression usually have a variety of adverse psychological and behavioral manifestations before the onset of the disease. If an individual has more than three of these manifestations, then their probability of developing depression increases dramatically. Therefore, for these high-risk groups, the prevention and ** of depression is particularly important. The incidence of depression can only be effectively reduced by raising public awareness of depression and allowing them to understand how to prevent and ** depression. At the same time, for people who already suffer from depression, it is also necessary to detect and ** in time to avoid aggravation of the condition.

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