Understanding the Causes of Depressive Illness

　　Depression in life brings more inconvenience, but also the patient's mental aspect of the disorder, for health has brought quite serious harm, we need to know more about the knowledge of depression, must be triggered by the emergence of depression factors to pay attention to, look down to take friends to understand the causes of the disease.

　　 The causes of depression:

　　1, neuroendocrine dysfunction is a common cause of depression: many studies have found that patients with depression have hypothalamus a pituitary adrenal axis function abnormality, plasma corticosteroid and 17-hydroxycorticosteroid content is increased in patients with depression. Physical disease, some serious physical disease, such as stroke, heart attack, hormone disorders often trigger depression, and make the original disease worse. In addition, 1/3 of people with depression have substance abuse problems.

　　2, genetic factors: many studies have found that the occurrence of depression and genetic factors have a closer relationship, but depression is not a hereditary disease, genetic research is mainly through the genealogy of the investigation and the study of twins. Genetic factors have a definite role in the development of depression, but this mainly refers to affective psychotic depression. For other mild forms of depression, such as depressive neurosis and reactive depression, personality and environmental factors may play a greater role.

　　3, psychological and social factors is currently caused by the increase in the number of patients with depression is one of the important reasons: the first onset of depression, more than half of the patients can be found to have psychological and social factors, but there are a lot of talk, depressive neurosis and reactive depression of the onset of the existence of psychological and social factors, especially the latter is obvious, no mental stimulation how to reactive depression it?

　　 Symptoms of depression:

　　1, sleep disorders: depression patients often have intractable sleep disorders, the incidence of up to 98%, manifested in the form of insomnia, difficulty in falling asleep, early waking, sleep rhythm disorders, poor sleep quality. Depressed patients wake up early especially in the early morning 3~5 time to wake up, at this time the mood is low, the risk of suicide is the greatest, which is one of the hazards of depression.

　　2, somatic symptoms: the hazards of depression are mainly loss of appetite, weight loss, loss of libido, constipation, impotence, amenorrhea, fatigue and so on. Physical discomfort can involve all organs, symptoms of autonomic dysfunction is more common. The somatic symptoms of depression are often unsubstantiated and mostly nonspecific, making it difficult to localize, but somatic diseases must be excluded.

　　3, psychomotor block: typical performance is slow action, energy loss, lack of interest and vitality always feel the heart but not enough, housework and daily activities are lazy to do, all day listlessness, physical and mental fatigue, the serious ones are dull or depressed wooden stiffness. The patient is not interested in all things around, no enthusiasm for work, plain neatly dressed people have become unkempt, which is one of the hazards of depression.

　　4, negative thinking: the harm of depression and melancholy state of mind can lead to negative thinking, pessimism and self-blame, low self-esteem, as if with tinted eyes to see the world, feel anything is difficult, pessimism and despair about the future. Melancholy patients see themselves as worthless, to insignificant faults and shortcomings unlimited exaggeration, feel sorry for others, family and society, that they are deeply guilty, is a "ten evil" bad guy. Some patients also feel that living is meaningless, living in the world in vain suffering, only a death to escape from the sea of suffering to be relieved. If such people with strong suicidal concepts are not given timely medical treatment or supervision, the success rate of suicide is quite high.

　　Through the understanding of these contents, a clear understanding of the factors that can cause the emergence of depression is what, depression is extremely complex a mental illness, after the onset of the patient will bring quite a lot of trouble, friends need to be concerned about the onset of depression factors, but also to go to the prevention of depression to do.