I am Yang Huabing, a professor at Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and today I want to talk about depression.The core manifestations of depression are: depressed mood, loss of interest or anhedonia, slow thinking, memory loss, insomnia, and in severe cases"3. Asymptomatic", that is, to feelUseless, helpless and hopelessIn reality, many people underestimate the severity of depression, ignore the role of psychological, environmental and life factors in the process of diagnosis and development, and do not solve its root causes, but blindly rely on drugs, expecting the efficacy of drugs to magically rescue them from depression.
In fact, if the root cause of depression is not addressed, the psychological tolerance is not enhanced, and the living environment and lifestyle are not changed, it is difficult to completely, even with the most advanced technology.
Those migrant workers who worked the construction site, after eating at noon, they could sleep sweetly and snor loudly with a few wooden planks and their feet on the bricks.
In the hospital, the nurses live in noisy, crowded and brightly lit wards every day, still energetically taking care of patients, chatting with family members, joking with fellow villagers, and leaning back in chairs to nap.
In rural areas, laborers work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and in the evening the whole family gathers to eat and chat, and it is rare to see them suffering from depression, insomnia, and other diseases.
It can be seen that depression is first and foremostlife or life problems, and then medical problems。That is, there is a physical reaction (somatic symptoms) before there is a physical reaction (somatic symptoms) and there is a physical reaction (somatic symptoms) first. In clinical practice, we have found that as long as you explore carefully, you can always find that there is loneliness, meaninglessness, freedom and responsibility behind depression"Existentiality"Issue.
What is even more heart-wrenching is that the vast majority of people do not receive an accurate diagnosis or adequate**, and those who rely on drugs to get **, even if they get ** physical symptoms, still have inner shadows and bad lifestyles, and are not prepared to face the risks.
Therefore, when they suffer from depression again, they feel exhausted and fall into despair again.
Professor Hai Bowen mentioned in the article:Depression is a social emotion and disorder that has its roots in meaning and relationships in the social world, and in turn, they are a consequence of depression
Therefore, if we want to recover from the quagmire of depression, we cannot blindly rely on doctors and medicationsChange cognition and lifestyleIt is a necessary part to get rid of depression.
In fact, as long as you reduce the problem of depression to a life or life problem, and are willing to invest time, energy and patience, have hope, and fully trust the psychologist, depression can be obtained.
Of course, I am not denying the value of antidepressant drugs and physical methods in the fight against depression, but I am only emphasizing that in the long run, we need to reduce the problem of depression to a problem of life in order for us to truly get rid of depression.
I am Yang Huabing, a professor at Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, if you have emotional troubles, you can talk to me, I hope to help you and your family.