7 tips to keep depression away from you

 Now, in 2021, too many people are using the banner of "depression", either to seek "dividends" or to arouse attention, and confound the disease of depression. So that the public can not really distinguish depression, and even have prejudice against depression patients.

1. Is low mood depression?

People will always be unhappy, but most people can change their emotions through self-regulation or confiding with friends.

Depression is not an ordinary bad mood, it is a kind of depression that lasts for a long time at least two weeks, and it almost always feels low, and it has obvious negative effects on our daily work and life. This may be "depression".

There are many reasons for depression, and it may be caused by obvious reasons. Such as major incidents, environmental impacts, physical diseases, etc., may also appear for no reason.

The WHO report shows that about one in seven people in the world will suffer from depression at some stage in their lives.

Depression is a very common disease. Compared with our usual cold and fever, through timely treatment, our body and mind can be restored to the state before the illness.

2. Depression is "hypocritical" and "unreasonable making trouble"?

Many people don’t understand. Do something happy if you are not happy. As for crying all day long because of this "unhappy", it affects work and life? Why are you so hypocritical!

Depression is neither hypocritical nor unreasonable. Depression is a kind of mental illness, which means being "sick" in the heart. People with depression may suffer from insomnia all night, feel unhappy in their hearts, lose their yearning for life, cry often, lose their souls, feel that they are useless, and even self-harm or have suicidal thoughts.

Depression is like a big net. Patients are tied tighter and tighter in the net. Depression patients themselves are unable to resist.

So depression does not mean hypocrisy. To know the correct cognition, to understand the patients with depression.

Depression patients should not avoid medical treatment, believe that everything will be better, and actively treat them.

3. How to treat depression? Is it okay to not take medicine?

Depression is not only a treatment method of medication, but also methods such as psychotherapy and self-help.

If it is only mild depression, medication may not be needed. Self-regulation, the company of family and friends or psychotherapy may also solve the problem. But if the effect is not significant, it still needs to be treated with drugs.

4. Are antidepressants useful? Will you get fat?

Some patients are not resistant to taking the medicine, but are worried about the side effects of the medicine. The point that most people care about is whether the medicine treatment will cause obesity?

First of all, antidepressants can reduce the anxiety and irritability symptoms of patients by adjusting the concentration of certain chemical substances in the brain, and can help patients fight depression.

Some antidepressant drugs can increase the patient's appetite while fighting depression, or cause edema, thereby increasing weight.

However, some patients will relieve depression in the body by overeating, and some patients will have sleep disturbance. These reasons will also make the body fat, not necessarily the fat caused by antidepressants.

5. Can staying happy every day prevent depression?

1. It is inevitable that people don't have to be "happy" deliberately when they are depressed.
2. Don't be horny in life, and treat everything with peace of mind.
3. Exercise more. Get in the habit of exercising regularly.
4. Cultivate your own hobbies.
5. Try not to hold your mind in your heart, and find more trusted friends to talk to.
6. Appropriately participate in social activities and arrange appropriate entertainment.
7. Don't set too big goals for yourself and increase the pressure on your heart.