Just not happy? Wrong! Depression requires full treatment.

October 10 is World Mental Health Day, co-sponsored by the People's Daily Health Client, Health Times, JD.com Health Co-sponsored, Lingbei China-supported "Mental Health People's Well-being - 2020 World Mental Health Day Green Ribbon Theme Science Activities" launched on October 10, the event invited experts in the field of mental illness to visit the People's Daily Health Client, for netizens to bring the most authoritative knowledge of mental illness science.
Experts interviewed: Zhao Min, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Mental Health Center affiliated with Shanghai Jiaoxuan University School of Medicine, specializes in: using modern psychological, behavioral, family therapy to diagnose and treat all kinds of anxiety, depression, fear, compulsion, interpersonal relationships, family relations and other psychological behavior problems.
(pictured is Professor Zhao Min, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Mental Health Center affiliated with Shanghai Jiaoxuan University School of Medicine) "It would be good to be sentimental, too petite, and too poor to resist pressure. Many people have many misconceptions about depression, that depression is simply a psychological problem that can be controlled through its own changes.
depression is a complex multi-dimensional, heterogeneic mental disorder, which cannot be regulated by subjective will and requires professional medical intervention and treatment.
professor Zhao Min, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Mental Health Center affiliated with Shanghai Jiaoxuan University School of Medicine, told the Health Times that because most people still have all kinds of wrong perceptions of depression, many patients can not be found in time, delay treatment, and eventually lead to irrecoverable tragedy.
three dimensions identify depression, which affects more than 300 million people worldwide and will top the global burden of disease by 2030.
more than 54 million people in China suffer from depression, or 4.2 percent of the population, according to the World Health Organization.
" depression as an emotional state, like joy and sorrow, everyone will appear, often through self-regulation will self-desperate, does not affect the normal life.
But as a common disease in the field of mental illness, depression is a typical condition of depression disorder, which not only appears the mood depression, lack of pleasure, loss of interest mood fluctuations, but also accompanied by decreased appetite, sleep disorders, reduced behavioral activity of the body symptoms.
, people with depression also suffer from impaired cognitive function, resulting in slow thinking, inattence, reduced productivity, and a lack of self-worth.
" Professor Zhao Min reminded that cognitive impairment leads to social dysfunction, which has a serious impact on the patient's work, study and social life, and affects the patient's long-term prognostication.
treatment of depression, each phase of the target has different depression as a high recurrence of the disease, currently advocating full treatment.
treatment is divided into acute treatment, consolidation treatment and maintenance therapy, each stage of treatment objectives are different.
The purpose of acute treatment is to control symptoms, as far as possible to achieve clinical healing, generally lasts 8-12 weeks;
to maintain the stability of the condition after treatment, can be slowly reduced until the end of treatment.
"the most important treatment for depression is medication, for mild depressive symptoms, can also take psychological intervention therapy, which is commonly referred to as psychotherapy.
can also take physical intervention therapy, such as repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation and so on.
" Professor Zhao Min said, "depression is a treatable disease, it is the same as many physical diseases, after effective treatment, can be alleviated and recovered."
the ultimate goal of depression is to achieve functional recovery so that patients can regain their pre-illness family functions and work functions.
" antidepressants are not addictive, and random drug suspensions have proven to be an effective treatment for depression, especially moderate to severe depression, and are recommended as the first-line recommendation in national depression guidelines.
" Some patients in the course of treatment, self-feeling symptoms subside on their own, and some patients for fear of long-term drug dependence, so the reduction or even do not take drugs, these practices are not desirable.
" Professor Zhao Min suggested, "some patients after a period of treatment, can slowly stop the drug."
but must be professionally evaluated by a doctor.
" antidepressants are not addictive drugs, drug addiction has two standards, one is that patients have a physiological dependence on drugs, once deactivation, there will be anxiety, nausea and other symptoms, will find a way to use it again, to get pleasure.
depression patients generally do not fight depression drugs to produce a desire to take psychology.
is tolerance, drug addiction, dosing will be larger and larger.
the therapeutic effect of antidepressants will persist and the dose will decrease at a later stage of maintenance.
Zhao Min stressed that
indepressants after the suspension of dizziness, headache, fatigue and other symptoms, are common withdrawal symptoms, so with drug addiction this is completely two different concepts."
If the self-stop drug, one is the possibility of a sudden drug stop caused by a series of drug stop reactions, more dangerous is that may cause the disease repeated, leading to the disease into incurable depression, to follow-up treatment to increase the difficulty, affect the prognosiosal effect.
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