Types of depression
First, endogenous depression is characterized by laziness, dullness, change, anxiety, and anxiety (brain biogenic amines are right or absolutely insufficient).
Second, reactive depression is depression caused by various mental stimuli and setbacks. People who encounter natural disasters, man-made disasters, lovelorn marriages, serious illness, career setbacks, etc. People with poor psychological endurance are prone to reactive depression.
Third, the depressive symptoms of concealed depression are not obvious, and they are often manifested as various physical discomfort symptoms, such as palpitation, chest tightness, epigastric discomfort, shortness of breath, sweating, emaciation, insomnia, etc.
Fourth, depression characterized by learning difficulties. This kind of depression will lead to learning difficulties, inattention, memory decline, overall or sudden decline in grades, weariness of learning, fear of learning, truancy or refusal to learn.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Secondary depression caused by drugs If some hypertensive patients take antihypertensive drugs, their mood will continue to be depressed and depressed.
Sixth, secondary depression caused by physical diseases, such as heart disease, lung disease, endocrine and metabolic diseases and even a bad cold and high fever, can cause this kind of depression.
Seven, postpartum depression, especially for their babies, have a strong sense of guilt, inferiority (especially rural women are discriminated against by their mother-in-law or husband after giving birth to a baby girl), hate, do not love or hate their children. Crying, insomnia, inability to eat and depression are common symptoms of this kind of depression.
Three main symptoms of depression
Many people are no strangers to depression, but it is essentially different from the general "unhappy". There are obvious characteristics, and there are three main symptoms, namely depression, mental retardation and exercise inhibition.
Depression means unhappiness, always sadness and even pessimism and despair. Lin Daiyu, who frowns and sighs all day and tears easily in A Dream of Red Mansions, is a typical example.
Slow thinking means that you feel that your brain is not working, you can't remember things, and you have difficulty thinking. The patient felt empty and stupid.
Exercise inhibition means not being active and being lazy all over. Walk slowly, talk less and so on. Seriously, you may not be able to eat, move or take care of yourself.
Other symptoms of depression
Patients with the above typical symptoms are rare. Many patients have only one or two of them, and the severity varies from person to person. Depression, anxiety, loss of interest, lack of energy, pessimism and low self-evaluation are all common symptoms of depression, and sometimes it is difficult to distinguish them from general short-term bad emotions. Here is a simple way to introduce you: if the above discomfort is more serious in the morning and partially relieved in the afternoon or evening, then you are more likely to suffer from depression. This is called the rhythm change of depression.
The most dangerous symptom of depression
Depressed patients are depressed and pessimistic. In severe cases, it is easy to have suicidal thoughts. Moreover, because the patient's thinking logic is basically normal, the success rate of suicide is also high. Suicide is one of the most dangerous symptoms of depression. According to research, the suicide rate of patients with depression is 20 times higher than that of the general population. More than half of the social suicide population may be depressed patients. Some unexplained suicides may have suffered from severe depression before their death, but they were not found in time. Because suicide only happens when the disease develops to a certain extent. Therefore, for patients with depression, early detection and early treatment are very important. Don't wait for the patient to commit suicide before thinking that he may have depression.
Many people with depression want to die to relieve their pain. Patients often have thoughts and behaviors of death to end pain, pain and confusion.
Physical symptoms of depression
Depression is mainly manifested as depression, mental retardation and decreased will activity, and most cases still have various physical symptoms.
(1) Depression: The basic characteristics are depression, distress and sadness, and lack of interest. I feel pessimistic and desperate, I feel very painful, and I feel that I am dying. Often used to describe one's inner experience, such as boredom and unhappiness. Typical people are depressed, heavy during the day and light at night. Often coexist with anxiety.
(2) Slow thinking: the process of thinking association is inhibited, the reaction is slow, and the brain consciously stops activities, which is manifested by the reduction of active speech, the obvious slowdown of speech speed, and the difficulty of thinking. Slow response, need to wait for a long time, under the influence of depression, low self-evaluation, inferiority, uselessness, worthlessness, feeling that living is meaningless, pessimistic suicide, self-blame, thinking that living is a burden, committing a big crime, having the concept of hypochondriac disease on the basis of physical discomfort, and thinking that they have an incurable disease.
(3) Decreased will activity: the initiative activity is obviously reduced, and people are passive. People are unwilling to participate in activities that are of interest to the outside world and often stay alone. Life is lazy and develops into silence, which can reach the level of stupor. The most dangerous thing is repeated suicide attempts and behaviors.
(4) Physical symptoms: Most patients with depression have physical and other biological symptoms, such as palpitation, chest tightness, gastrointestinal discomfort, constipation, loss of appetite and weight loss. Sleep disorders are prominent, mostly difficulty falling asleep.
(5) Others: hallucinations, depersonalization, reality depersonalization, compulsion and terror symptoms may also occur during depressive episodes. Because the thinking association is obviously slowed down and the memory is decreased, it is easy to affect the cognitive function of elderly patients and produce depressive pseudodementia.
Mild depression often complains of dizziness, headache, fatigue and insomnia, which is easily misdiagnosed as neurasthenia. The latter has certain psychological and social factors before the onset, such as long-term tension and excessive brain use. Emotions are mainly anxiety and fragility. The main clinical manifestations are emotional symptoms such as mental fatigue, nervousness, annoyance and irritability related to mental excitement, as well as physiological dysfunction symptoms such as muscle tension pain and sleep disorder. Good insight, passive symptoms, eager to seek treatment. Depression is mainly manifested as depression, accompanied by biological symptoms such as slow thinking, inferiority, self-guilt, and wanting to die (such as day and night mood, loss of appetite, and loss of libido). ). Self-knowledge is often lost, and it can be recognized without actively seeking treatment.
Recessive depression is an atypical depression, which is mainly manifested by repeated or persistent physical discomfort and autonomic symptoms, such as headache, dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, shortness of breath, numbness of limbs, nausea and vomiting. Depression is often masked by physical symptoms, so it is also called depression allele. Most patients go to other departments instead of psychiatry. Physical examination and auxiliary examination often have no positive manifestations and are easily misdiagnosed as neurosis or other physical diseases. Symptomatic treatment is generally ineffective, and antidepressant treatment is effective.
Early symptoms of depression
1. The degree of depression varies, from mild bad mood to sadness, pessimism and despair. Patients feel heavy, life is boring, unhappy, unhappy, miserable and unable to extricate themselves. Some patients may also be anxious, excitable and nervous.
2. Losing interest is one of the common symptoms of patients with depression. Lost the enthusiasm and fun of life and work in the past, and lost interest in anything. I don't feel happy with my family, I don't care about my past hobbies, I often live alone, alienate my relatives and friends, and avoid socializing. Patients often complain of "no feelings", "emotional numbness" and "unhappy"
3. Energy loss, fatigue, washing, dressing and other small things in life are all difficult and difficult. Patients often use "nervous breakdown" and "frustrated ball" to describe their illness.
4. Low self-evaluation: Patients tend to belittle their abilities too much and treat their present, past and future with a critical, negative and negative attitude. This is neither good nor right. They say they are useless and their future is dark. Strong sense of self-blame, guilt, uselessness, worthlessness and helplessness. In severe cases, the concepts of self-guilt and hypochondriasis may appear.
5. The patients are obviously, persistently and generally depressed, with difficulty in concentration, memory loss, dull brain, blocked thinking and slow action, but some patients show anxiety, tension and agitation.
6. negative pessimism: I feel very painful, pessimistic and desperate. I feel that life is a burden, and it is not worth nostalgia. Seeking liberation by death will produce strong suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
7. Physical or biological symptoms: Patients with depression often have biological symptoms such as loss of appetite, weight loss, sleep disorder, sexual dysfunction, and day and night mood swings, which are very common, but not in every case. ?
8. Loss of appetite and weight loss: Most patients have symptoms of loss of appetite and poor appetite, and delicious food is no longer attractive. Patients who don't think about tea or rice or eat tasteless are often accompanied by weight loss.
9. Sexual dysfunction: sexual desire may decrease in the early stage of the disease, impotence may occur in men, and female patients lack sexual attraction.
10. Sleep disorder: A typical sleep disorder is to wake up early, 2-3 hours earlier than usual, and then stop falling asleep and fall into a sad atmosphere.
1 1. Diurnal change: The patient's mood changes from day to night. Fall into depression in the morning or morning, get better in the afternoon or evening, and be able to have a short conversation and eat. The incidence of diurnal variation is about 50%.
Self-test and measurement methods of depression
Depression is a common mental illness, mainly manifested as depression, decreased interest, pessimism, slow thinking, lack of initiative, self-blame, poor diet and sleep, fear of various diseases, general discomfort, and even suicidal thoughts and behaviors in severe cases.
Depression is the disease with the highest suicide rate in psychiatric department. At present, depression has become the second largest disease in the world, which has caused a serious burden to human beings. The pain caused to patients and their families and the loss caused to society are incomparable to other diseases. The main reason for this situation is the lack of correct understanding of depression in society, and prejudice makes patients reluctant to go to psychiatric clinics. In China, only 5% of patients with depression have been treated, and a large number of patients have not been treated in time, and their condition has deteriorated, even leading to serious consequences of suicide. On the other hand, due to people's lack of understanding of depression, people with symptoms of depression are mistaken for being irritable and unable to give due understanding and emotional support, which causes greater psychological pressure on patients and further worsens their condition. Here is a simple way to judge whether you have depression.
Please read the following questions carefully, circle the scores that are most suitable for your situation, and then add up the scores. The score is above 15, which means going to the hospital. The score is between 5 ~ 15, which means that you have depression and should seek medical treatment. If you want to commit suicide or hurt others, please tell the doctor immediately. The score of each item is: No is 0, occasionally 1, sometimes 2, often 3.
1. Do you feel depressed and melancholy?
Do you find it difficult to do what you did before?
3. Do you feel panic and fear for no reason?
4. Do you cry or want to cry easily?
5. Are you less interested in what you used to do?
6. Do you feel uneasy or uneasy?
7. Do you think it is difficult to fall asleep easily without taking medicine at night?
8. Do you feel anxious as soon as you leave the room?
9. Have you lost interest in the things around you?
10. Do you feel tired for no reason?
1 1. Do you lose your temper more easily than usual?
12. Did you wake up earlier than usual and have been unable to sleep well after waking up?
Diagnosis of depressive neurosis
There are certain psychological and social factors as inducement, chronic onset, clear but not serious symptoms of depression with neurosis, little influence on work, communication and living ability, desire for treatment, complete personality and a course of more than 2 years are the main basis for diagnosis of depressive neurosis. The following 10 can be used as a reference for the diagnosis of depressive neurosis:
(1) had depressive personality before illness;
(2) induced by mental factors;
(3) Psychomotor inhibition is not obvious;
(4) No biological symptoms such as emaciation and anorexia;
(5) Depression is the main symptom;
(6) accompanied by anxiety symptoms;
(7) No serious remorse;
(8) No psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations;
(9) There are active treatment requirements;
There was no intermission before (10).
Incidence of depression
Depression is called "blue worry" in the west. According to relevant surveys, the incidence of depression in China is about 3%-5%, and more than 26 million people have suffered from depression at present. With the development of society, white-collar workers living in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have quickly become high-risk groups of the disease under high pressure and high competition. Unfortunately, in sharp contrast to the high incidence rate, the recognition rate of depression in hospitals above prefecture level is less than 20%. Among the existing patients with depression, less than 10% have received relevant drug treatment. According to the latest survey and statistical analysis of the World Health Organization, the incidence of depression in the world is about 3. 1%, while it is close to 6% in developed countries. In 2002, there were more than 89 million patients with major depression in the world, and the number of patients with major depression in the world has reached 340 million. Among adults over 20 years old, the number of patients with depression is increasing at the rate of 1 1.3% per year. It is predicted that by 2005, the incidence of depression in developed countries will rise to 8 ~ 10%. By 2020, functional residues that are easy to cause will rise to the second place in the general classification of diseases, second only to ischemic heart disease. The situation of depression in China is not optimistic. At present, the incidence of depression in China is about 4%. According to the epidemiological survey data in some areas using the new disease classification and diagnosis system, the prevalence rate of depression in China is about 10 ‰ ~ 15 ‰, which is close to the statistical results of developed countries. Neuropsychiatric diseases rank first in the total disease burden in China, accounting for about 20% of the total disease burden. According to the World Health Organization, by 2020, the burden of neuropsychiatric diseases in China will rise to 1/4 of the total disease burden. According to some data, 70% people in China are in sub-health state, and patients with diseases related to psychological stress account for about 5% ~ 10% of the population. Physical and mental diseases and psychological disorders have become frequently-occurring and common diseases. In 2002, the amount of drugs used for nervous system in typical hospitals in key cities of China reached about 65.438+0.42 billion yuan, accounting for 63.28% in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and the amount of antidepressants was about 65.438+0/5.
Treatment of depression
Depression is a kind of brain disease, which has its own occurrence and development law. For many years, the study of depression and antidepressants has been an important research field of contemporary psychiatry. Although the etiology and pathophysiology of depression are still unclear, it does not hinder the effective treatment of this disease.
There are many treatments for depression, such as psychotherapy, sleep deprivation therapy, phototherapy, electroconvulsive therapy, etc., but at present, medication is the main treatment, supplemented by psychotherapy. It should be pointed out that people with depression often have negative and pessimistic thoughts, and in severe cases, they have suicidal tendencies and world-weariness Doctors should be on high alert and warn their families to take strict precautions. If conditions permit, it is best to be hospitalized. Electrospasm therapy has direct resuscitation effect and should be used decisively and quickly.
Therapeutic drugs for depression
Antidepressants are a large category of many psychotropic drugs, which are mainly used to treat depression and various depressive states. Here are only two drugs with definite curative effect and generally recognized:
1. The first generation of classic antidepressants: including monoamine oxidase inhibitor (maoi) and tricyclic antidepressants (tca).
2. The second generation of new antidepressants: Due to the rapid development of new drugs, new drugs emerge one after another, such as venlafaxine and nafazodone, but at present, selective serotonin (5- HT) reuptake inhibitors are still the main ones, and these drugs are also the most widely used in clinic.
There are two kinds of classic antidepressants in the first generation, namely monoamine oxidase inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants.
1. Single receptor oxidase inhibitor
Isopropylhydrazine is the first antidepressant that came out in 1950s. Isopropylhydrazine is an anti-tuberculosis drug. 65438-0957 has been successfully tried in patients with depression because of its central excitatory effects such as talkativeness, hyperactivity, insomnia and euphoria. Animal experiments show that it can reverse the apathy and inactivity caused by reserpine, and at the same time increase the monoamine content in the brain. It is speculated that its central excitatory and antidepressant effects are due to the decrease of monoamine degradation caused by inhibition of brain singleton oxidase, which leads to the increase of singleton content in the sudden release gap. Therefore, the relationship between animal behavior and brain receptors is put forward, which has important theoretical and practical significance and lays a foundation for the study of psychopharmacology and etiology of mental diseases.
Also included in this category are isocarbohydrazide, phenelzine and amphetamine. These drugs used to be widely used, but they were soon eliminated because they interacted with certain foods and substances to produce serious adverse reactions such as hypertensive crisis and acute yellow liver atrophy.
In the late 1980s, a new generation of half-day oxidase inhibitors appeared, which is a subtype of reversible monoamine oxidase (mao-a). Its characteristics are: 1 has high selectivity to mao-a, but low selectivity to another isoenzyme mao-b, so it can still degrade coolamine in food, thus reducing the risk of hypertensive crisis. The inhibitory effect of 2 on mao-a is reversible, and it takes only 8- 10 hour to restore the enzyme activity, while the inhibitory time of old amine oxidase inhibitor is as long as 2 weeks, which reduces the risk of interaction with food. The main product is moclobemide, the dosage is 150-450mg/d, and it is taken in batches. It is said that the efficacy is equivalent to tricyclic antidepressants. Although it is safer than the old half-day amine oxidase inhibitor, we should still pay attention to postural hypotension and the potential interaction between food and drugs, which are generally not the first choice.
2. Tricyclic antidepressants
Another antidepressant after monoamine oxidase inhibitor is imipramine.
Its chemical structure is similar to chlorpromazine. People think that it may be a new antipsychotic drug, but the clinical trial results are unexpected. This drug has no effect on schizophrenia, but it can improve depression. Later, it was confirmed by a large number of double-blind placebo-controlled studies that replacing monoamine oxidase inhibitors became the first choice for depression treatment, monopolizing the antidepressant market for 30 years.
There are 10 kinds of tricyclic antidepressants. In addition to imipramine, there are amitriptyline, doxepin and clomipramine in China. Although maprotiline has a tetracyclic structure, its pharmacological effects are consistent with tricyclic antidepressants. The indications of tricyclic antidepressants are various types of depression, the effective rate is about 70%-80%, the onset time is 1-2 weeks, the dosage range is 50-250mg/d, and the dosage is slowly increased and taken in batches. Because of its strong sedative effect, the dosage should be large at night. The plasma concentrations of imipramine and amitriptyline are 50-250ng/ml.
Tricyclic antidepressants have been used for the longest time in clinic, and their pharmacological effects have been studied most and fully. In short, their main pharmacological effects are: 1 blocking the reabsorption of monoamine transmitters (mainly adrenaline and 5-ht), increasing the content of synapses and producing antidepressant effects. Blocking a variety of transmitter receptors has nothing to do with the therapeutic effect, which is the main cause of many adverse reactions, such as acetylcholine M receptor stagnation, which can cause dry mouth, blurred vision, sinus tachycardia, constipation, urinary retention, glaucoma aggravation and memory dysfunction; Blocking adrenaline a 1 receptor can enhance the antihypertensive effect of prazosin, causing postural hypotension, dizziness and reflex tachycardia. Yin stagnation of histamine h 1 receptor can strengthen central inhibition, sedation, drowsiness, weight gain and blood pressure reduction; Yin stagnation of dopamine d2 receptor may lead to extrapyramidal symptoms and endocrine changes.
If the side effects of antidepressants are serious, they should be reduced, stopped or switched to other drugs. Generally speaking, the combination of two or more antidepressants is not recommended. Because of the high recurrence rate of this disease, treatment should be maintained for 4-6 months after the symptoms are relieved to consolidate the curative effect and prevent recurrence.
Self-treatment of depression
1, set a practical goal.
This goal should be feasible, that is to say, both external conditions and their own conditions should be met. The initial plan is easier to implement and requires less time and effort. If this process takes too much time and energy, if you are not interested in anything, you are more likely to give up halfway. If you are ready to act enthusiastically as soon as you think of a certain goal, you don't have to look down. You are not the object that this article hopes to help. If you live in an inland province, don't plan to enter DaHai You yet: If you have only swam in the swimming pool, don't plan to cross the Qiongzhou Strait. These goals are too ambitious for you at present.
Now, let's assume that your goal is to learn to swim this summer. Is this goal feasible? Yes, because several of my friends learned to swim in one summer, and they are not sports geniuses; I know there is a swimming pool not far from home, which provides swimming lessons; I have money to go to swimming lessons; I have time this summer.
2. Define your goal accurately.
Only when the goal is clear can we judge whether we have achieved it. Otherwise, you can always say to yourself, "I failed." To regain your confidence in life, you need a successful experience. Therefore, in the process of implementing this kind of behavioral therapy, you should make sure that you will succeed again and again and convince yourself that you can do what you want. So, please define your success criteria accurately.
Learn to swim this summer. When does this summer mean? June to September 2004. What kind of swimming? What is learning in breaststroke? You can swim 100 meters without any auxiliary tools. Well, on September 30th, you can check whether your goal has been achieved according to these standards.
3. Divide your action plan into small enough steps to ensure that your plan can be completed.
Make a detailed plan for your goals, and the goals to be achieved in each step of the plan are small enough to ensure that you can achieve them. For example, your first goal may be to determine the time of swimming class. You may scoff at this goal and think it's too easy. But for some people with depression, it is not easy to think of it and do it. Remember, when determining each sub-goal, make sure that you can accomplish it. Every time you accomplish a goal, you win, and every success will gradually increase your confidence. If you set too big a sub-goal, you are bound to fail. Failure again and again will hurt your confidence. Perhaps, after several failures, you will completely lose interest and confidence in this plan, give up halfway and return to the state of doing nothing before.
4. Define success by your own behavior.
In other words, don't involve other people's behavior in the goal. If your goal is to associate with people, be careful not to make such a goal: to have coffee with Xiao Li after work. The mistake of this goal is that whether this goal can be achieved depends on whether Xiao Li accepts your invitation. You can control your own behavior, but you can't control the behavior of others. So your goal violates the previous principle, and you are not sure whether this goal can be achieved. According to the principle of ensuring success, you can modify your goal like this: invite Xiao Li to have coffee with you after work. You will succeed as long as you make an invitation. As for Xiao Li's reaction, it doesn't matter. Invitation skills are another problem.
Don't add emotional factors to your goals.
In this plan, what matters is doing, not how you feel in the process of doing it. You can control your behavior, but you can't directly control your emotions. In a depressed state, it is difficult for you to get a happy feeling from any activity. Emotion will be affected by behavior, but this effect is not immediate and takes some time. Therefore, if you must be happy for success, then you are likely to fail. Don't set such a goal: "I want to swim happily twice", just "I want to swim twice" is enough.
Well, the main principles are over, and you can start making and implementing your plan. If you fail at some point, don't worry, failure at the first attempt is inevitable. Look back at these five principles, find out your mistakes and correct them. I believe you will overcome your depression and live a colorful life.
Therapeutic effect of depression
At the "Fifth Remeron Asia-Pacific Experts Summit" hosted by Oganon recently, experts said that the treatment situation in the first 1-2 weeks after taking the medicine can predict the possibility of later cure of patients with depression.
A study involving more than 5,000 patients provided by Professor ASzegedi in the United States shows that the therapeutic effect of depressed patients 1-2 weeks will predict whether it is possible to be cured in the future. The study showed that patients with depression whose symptoms improved within 1-2 weeks were at least three times more likely to be effective and cured than those whose symptoms improved later.
Depression (including depression and dysthymia) is a serious mental illness and an important problem facing the current public health system. According to some data, the lifetime prevalence of depression is 4.4%~ 19.6%, and the lifetime prevalence of dysthymia is 3. 1%~3.9%. Depression usually occurs early in life and may last a lifetime. It can damage the whole function of human body (called professional role and social role) and seriously affect the quality of life of patients. According to statistics, about 10% people in the world suffer from depression. According to the annual report released by the World Health Organization not long ago, depression has ranked the fourth among the top ten diseases in the world, and it is expected to jump to the second place by 2020, ahead of cancer after myocardial infarction; In the coming year, 5.8% of men and 9.5% of women may have depressive symptoms; Globally, the number of people who feel some kind of mental and nervous discomfort in their lifetime has reached 450 million.
Depression is becoming an increasingly common disease. Professor BruceSingh, head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, Australia, believes that depression is growing rapidly in China, and the use of antidepressants is increasing at an average rate of 15%. A large number of patients have not been diagnosed. Drugs for depression usually have the problems of slow onset and easy recurrence. Therefore, Professor ASzegedi of the United States called for special attention to the treatment of patients with 1-2 weeks. Because the first 1-2 weeks of treatment will predict the possibility of future cure.
According to Yu Xin and Jia Fujun, experts in the field of psychiatry in China, at present, psychotherapy and drug therapy are usually used to treat depression in China's market, and electroconvulsive therapy can be used in severe cases. Drug therapy is the most widely used means to treat depression at present.
Other ways to help people with depression
Electroconvulsive therapy
It is a fast and effective treatment method, which uses a certain amount of current to pass through the brain, stimulate the discharge of the central nervous system, and the muscles of the whole body twitch rhythmically. Under the operation of professional doctors, you can hardly feel pain, and can quickly relieve depressive symptoms and emotions, with a total effective rate of 70%-90%.
Usually, after electroconvulsive therapy, psychological therapy and drug therapy are often continued.
substitutive therapy
For depression that can't be treated by traditional western medicine, alternative therapy can be adopted, including a series of means from diet and exercise to social environment and lifestyle. Including acupuncture, intention guidance, yoga, hypnosis, herbs, massage, relaxation therapy, spice massage therapy, spinal acupressure therapy and biofeedback therapy.
Substitution therapy alone can only be effective for mild depression, but not for severe depression.
Experimental therapy
Experimental therapy is usually not carried out by doctors, and its safety and effectiveness have not been proved.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy (TMS)-Because the nerve conduction in the brain needs the change of current, transcranial magnetic stimulation takes advantage of this feature, and sends a strong but short-term magnetic pulse directly to a specific area in the brain in a non-invasive, painless and safe way, and triggers a trace current in the neural circuit of the human brain. At present, no side effects have been found in the treatment of depression, and the prospect is broad.
Female hormone replacement therapy
The proportion of women suffering from depression is higher than that of men. Before and after menopause, women's hormones will change, leading to emotional changes, often causing premenstrual syndrome, premenstrual discomfort and postpartum depression. This method can relieve menopausal symptoms, such as night sweats and hot flashes. Hormone replacement therapy itself may also lead to depression. If you have ever suffered from depression, you should tell your doctor before considering using this therapy.
reflexotherapy
Reflexive therapy is a technique in which practitioners exert pressure on the fixed parts of patients' hands and feet. Reflexologists believe that the human body has the function of self-repair, and the nerves of hands and feet are connected with other parts of the body. By stimulating some parts of hands and feet, diseases can be treated by using the principle of reflection.
motortherapy
Different forms of exercise can help people reduce stress, relax, relieve depression, make you full of energy, increase balance and flexibility. Generally speaking, exercise therapy is safe, effective and simple, but you must consult your doctor before starting a new exercise plan.