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    Depression tends to be younger, and the proportion of college students is increasing year by year

    • Last Update: 2018-10-17
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    October 16, 2018 / AP / -- October 10 is World Mental Health Day The theme of World Mental Health Day 2018 is "young people and mental health in a changing world" The "Shidai sunshine" project, jointly produced by the psychosomatic branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Lingbei company and medical MOOC, specially invited authoritative experts in the field of mental health in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Nanjing, to comprehensively interpret the current situation of depression in China, as well as the manifestations, diagnosis and treatment errors, rational use of drugs, etc of young people's depression, and called for a comprehensive interpretation The society pays close attention to the mental health of young people, and cares about young depression patients Professor Fang Yiru, director of mood disorders specialty of Shanghai Mental Health Center, Professor Liu tiebang, Dean and chief physician of Shenzhen Corning hospital, Professor Yuan Yonggui, director of psycho psychiatry of Central University Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University, and Professor Wu Jian, director of Shenjing center of Tsinghua Changgeng Hospital Affiliated to Tsinghua University, respectively, were interviewed by the media China is one of the countries with more serious disease burden of depression According to the World Health Organization (who), more than 54 million people in China suffer from depression, accounting for 4.2% of the total population, while the prevalence rate of the whole population is about 4.4% [i] If you add the huge "invisible" patients who don't seek treatment, the prevalence of depression will be higher At present, depression is becoming younger and younger In the domestic depression patients, the proportion of college students is increasing year by year The World Health Organization once pointed out that a quarter of Chinese college students admitted to having depression symptoms Academic, interpersonal, love, family and employment pressure may be the inducing factors of depression Aggravating economic and social burden depression is a multi-dimensional disorder including emotional, physical and cognitive symptoms Patients with depression often have physical disorders such as eating unwittingly or overeating, physical discomfort, cognitive disorders such as memory decline, emotional disorders such as depression, grumpy temper, and other emotional disorders In addition, they also have negative thoughts of reduced self-identity Serious depression can lead to suicide It is reported that about 250000 people die of suicide every year in China, more than half of them suffer from depression Who pointed out that suicide has become the second common cause of death among young people aged 15-29 [II] Young people are the new force of social development in the future The invasion of depression will not only bring families and individuals economic burden such as hospitalization and drugs, but also more importantly, these patients lose the ability to create value for society and families If not controlled in time, the lost productivity will cause great loss to our economy Although there are a large number of patients with depression, they still haven't received enough attention and attention In China, a large number of "invisible" patients have not received treatment Although great progress has been made in the field of mental health in China in the past decade, great improvement is still needed in disease awareness, disease education and treatment rate The treatment rate of depression is still significantly lower than that of other chronic diseases, and only 2 out of 10 patients finally seek medical help or receive treatment [III] This part comes from the lack of understanding of depression and the lack of awareness of the serious consequences of this disease; another part is due to the fact that in oriental culture, "depression" is often labeled as "weak" or "not strong enough", which results in patients' shame and shame As a common disease in the field of mental diseases, depression patients with long-term depression as the main clinical manifestations Psychological consultation and optimistic attitude are helpful for depression relief, but for moderate and severe patients, we must seek the help of professional doctors as soon as possible, and carry out drug intervention treatment The longer the delay, the worse the treatment effect After years of clinical practice, antidepressants have become the main treatment of depression Since the 1950s, the research and development of antidepressants has never stopped In order to pursue better therapeutic effect and better tolerance, the research and development of new drugs are still in progress To build an antidepressant environmental depression, not only the patients and their families need to face up to it, establish the confidence of regular treatment, but also need to be widely concerned and understood by the society, and also need all sectors of society to jointly create a non discriminatory environment As an authoritative academic institution focusing on psychosomatic medicine, psychosomatic medicine branch of Chinese Medical Association is committed to the integrated intervention mode of psychosomatic diseases, the clinical comprehensive intervention application of psychosomatic disease concept, the communication and exchange of patients, the application of psychological consultation and treatment in psychosomatic medicine, the standardized and reasonable selection of psychotropic drugs, and the clinical application of humanities, ethics and hospice care Lingbei company has been deeply engaged in the field of mental and neurological diseases, and is committed to the popularization and education of knowledge in the field of mental and nervous system Take patients as the center, help patients and their families to better understand and treat diseases through disease education programs In order to better fulfill social responsibilities and let more people understand and correctly understand depression, Lingbei China, together with psychosomatic medicine branch of Chinese Medical Association and medical MOOC, jointly produced the depression Science Program "Shi Dai Yang -- depression lecture of China Psychosomatic Medicine Education Alliance" The project of "Shidai sunshine - depression lecture hall of China psychosomatic Medical Education Alliance" covers 8 cities including Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu, etc each lecture invites 3-4 psychosomatic authoritative experts to spread disease knowledge around psychosomatic health related knowledge and psychosomatic disease prevention and treatment knowledge in about 20 minutes This year, 22 excellent online science lectures have been held (the theme is shown in the table below, and 32 lectures are planned to be launched in 2018) From students, professionals to the elderly, patients are promoted to understand the knowledge of psychosomatic diseases, seek medical treatment as soon as possible and scientifically, learn self-management, improve the public's awareness of psychosomatic health, and improve the quality of psychosomatic health G A, et al The epidemiology of depression in metropolitan China Psychol Med 2009;39(5):735-747) (22.7% sought treatment)
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