What triggers depression?
The emergence of depression will make the patient's mood abnormal, and therefore affect their lives, so we should be alert to the emergence of this disease, but also should pay attention to the onset of depression factors, careful to guard against the emergence of this disease can be, the next to introduce you to the onset of depression factors are what it is.
The causes of depression:
1, stressful life events. Unpleasant life events such as conflicts with others, financial difficulties, retirement, unemployment, having children, loneliness, loss of a loved one or loss of something important can cause a susceptible person to become depressed or make depression worse. Depressive reactions are often delayed, sometimes occurring months after the life event. A hypothesis in clinical medicine suggests that chemicals in the brain of a depressed person are out of balance, which leads to depression, and that antidepressants or other medications are given to restore the balance, thereby improving the physical manifestations of depression. Depression has a family aggregation and a genetic predisposition. Studies of monozygotic twins have shown that the occurrence of depression in one of the twins is associated with a 70% risk of depression in their siblings, in contrast to the occurrence of depression in one of the non-twins' siblings and only a 15% risk of depression in the other siblings.
2、It may also be caused by physical illness or medication. Mumps, influenza, hepatitis, thyroid lesions, anemia, diabetes, birth control pills, alcohol or other psychoactive substance abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure and other diseases can trigger depressive symptoms. For this reason, clinical diagnosis of depression should involve a physical examination to rule out these causes. The patient's personality traits are also an important factor in the occurrence of depression. Depressed patients often have a pessimistic view of themselves and the world, do not pay attention to good things, and are particularly preoccupied with bad things. Some people are not depressed but tend to see things in this pessimistic way; in other words, they may have a depressive personality. People with this personality trait have a higher risk of developing depression.
Treatment options for depression:
The main ways to overcome depression are to make more friends and open up the mind: a characteristic of depressed people is to escape reality, like to live alone behind closed doors, low self-esteem, over-exaggerating their shortcomings and other symptoms, if it goes on for a long time, it will lead to depression aggravated, the premise of changing this vicious circle must force themselves to go out, more contact with friends, to participate in social activities or go out to travel, despite the fact that at first the inner will be very painful. But as long as you persist for a period of time, the negative emotional feelings will be slowly melted by the external environment, your self-confidence will be rekindled.
The main ways to overcome depression are meditation: for example, every night before going to bed, sit quietly for a while, try to relax yourself, sit still and think, put aside everything, give the brain time to relax and adjust. When you wake up in the morning, you don't have to rush to get up to visualize that it's a beautiful day, and instill a positive mindset in yourself more often. The main ways to beat depression are moderate exercise: different forms of exercise can help people reduce stress, relax, reduce depression, energize you, increase balance and flexibility. In terms of overall function, exercise therapy is safe, effective and easy to follow, but always talk to your doctor before embarking on a new exercise program.
Psychological stress relief: most depressed people are in a low mood, sad all day, and have lost interest in everything, when you want to get out of the depression, the most direct way to strengthen the depression self-regulation is to cultivate more interests and hobbies that can divert attention. Depressed people do not go alone, participate in some collective activities, more emotional exchanges with family members. Try to do some light physical exercise, you can also watch movies, television or listen to music.
We read these contents, should recognize the main causes of depression have what, we need to beware of the emergence of depression, to cause the emergence of depression to pay attention to the reasons, especially to actively do some depression prevention, analyze the causes of the disease can make us easy to carry out the response to depression.