It is true that this is an era of extremely rich material life. However, more and more young people are suffering from depression and are on the verge of sadness and anxiety. On the internet, adolescent suicides are common, even showing a trend of younger age.
Depressed patients regard it as a life-saving antidepressant, but it is actually a medical scam?
At present, the main treatment methods of depression in the world are drug therapy, psychotherapy and physical therapy. In view of the fact that many patients with depression have a sense of shame about their illness, as well as different factors such as individual cognition, cultural differences and social resources, they relatively reject psychotherapy and give priority to drug treatment.
Patients diagnosed with depression usually take commonly used antidepressants according to prescriptions, such as paroxetine, citalopram, fluoxetine and fluoxetine hydrochloride.
Since 2006, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants in Britain alone has increased by 180%. However, John Harry, a famous British journalist, personally uncovered this amazing scam of antidepressants in his TED talk.
The current reporter who graduated from Cambridge pointed out that he suffered from depression since he was a child. After taking antidepressants for more than 20 years, he found that their efficacy was equivalent to "placebo", which could not relieve and cure depression at all.
Many antidepressants on the market have no effect on at least 50% patients, while 2/3 patients have no obvious effect after taking them. However, for the sake of their own interests, pharmaceutical companies may selectively announce the results even if the experimental results are very low, so that the drugs can be put into production smoothly.
Due to the dual factors of heredity and family, John Harry suffered from depression since childhood and continued to take antidepressants for more than 20 years. Antidepressants can give him a temporary sense of security, but after a period of use, the effect is not as good as before.
Horribly, under the side effects of drugs, his body became more and more obese, very love sweating, and there were symptoms such as decreased sexual ability, but his depression showed no signs of improvement. He pointed out that when the doctor prescribed him antidepressants, he never asked him why he was depressed, and he never discussed the reasons for depression with him.
To treat depression, we must first know the causes of these diseases.
1. Family inheritance: Depression has obvious genetic factors. Generally, offspring with family history are more prone to depression. According to the survey, the family history of mental illness of patients with depression can be as high as 30%-4 1.8%, and the probability of relatives of patients with depression suffering from the same disease is 10-30 times higher than that of ordinary people.
2. Suffering from diseases: Patients suffering from specific diseases for a long time are more likely to suffer from depression, such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, thyroid disease, heart disease and diabetes. It is worth noting that long-term care for the families of these patients is also prone to depression.
3. Social environment: major blows, accidents or unsatisfactory things in life are all causes of depression. For example: unsatisfactory life, unsatisfactory work, academic pressure, etc. If negative emotions are not vented, they will turn into long-term depression.
4. Bad habits: People's quality of life has improved, but their daily life has been disrupted. Smoking, drinking, staying up late and overeating are all factors that disturb the human immune system, thus causing external diseases and mental health problems. Studies have shown that staying up late alone has led to a surge in stress among many young people and various emotional problems.
5. Social disconnection: The accelerated development of the Internet has taken away some communication in people's lives. Young people are used to hiding behind the screen and expressing their ideas with keyboards; In their spare time, people prefer to pass the time with electronic products rather than travel together.
Internet broadens young people's horizons, but it also weakens their practical social skills. People generally feel lonely, even with their families. Those otaku and otaku who bow their heads are more likely to encounter depression visits.
6. Personality factors: Personality is also one of the causes of depression. Compared with people with mental health and well-developed personality, people who are introverted, timid, cautious, stubborn, sensitive and fragile are more likely to suffer from depression.
Early intervention is the best way to overcome depression.
In fact, many mental diseases such as depression are caused by unsatisfactory life, too much pressure or anxiety.
When you find yourself or people around you have emotional problems, including: depression, sadness, boredom, tension, inferiority, nausea, helplessness, emotional loss of control, despair and so on. And last for more than two weeks, we must find ways to clear our minds and put out the signs of depression as soon as possible.
So, what are the best treatments for depression without seeing a doctor?
1. Psychotherapy: Psychological counseling is very common in the western world, but it has not been fully developed in China. Although there is a big gap in the positions of excellent psychological counselors, not many of them meet the standards. Coupled with China's previous ideas, anything linked to psychology may be labeled as a mental problem, which makes many people flinch even if they have psychological counseling needs.
Fortunately, with the development of the Internet, many psychological counselors can operate online to provide online persuasion, guidance, encouragement, comfort and support for patients.
With the country's attention to the mental health of teenagers, there is also a psychological development department on campus, equipped with psychological counselors to facilitate students' psychological counseling. As long as you are willing, you can restore the unbalanced psychological state to the best state as soon as possible.
2. Work and rest treatment: work at sunrise and rest at sunset, which is the wisdom of living and resting in nature. Research shows that sleep is one of the most effective methods to treat basic diseases of human body. As long as you give your feet proper sleep time, the human body can repair itself.
At 2 1: 00-23: 00 pm, the triple energizer meridian runs. At this time, falling asleep can nourish the body's white pulse and is also the best time for beauty sleep. 23:00-0 1:00 is the time for liver detoxification. Deep sleep during this period can effectively eliminate toxins in the body and make people feel refreshed.
Early to bed and early to rise is not a slogan, it just contains the password of human self-healing. Those who try to go to bed early for 2 weeks-1 month find themselves in great changes in mood, spirit and thinking.
3. Exercise therapy: Scientific research shows that the human body can produce dopamine and endorphins at the same time during exercise, both of which can make people feel happy. After exercise, people will feel better, be more confident and improve their ability to withstand pressure.
4. Dietotherapy: People with depression need to adjust their diet and eat nutritious things. The principles of healthy eating are inseparable from these: less meat and more vegetables, more quality, less inferior carbohydrates, less salt and sugar, less frying and less fat. Vitamin B, Omega-3, DHA, etc. can also be supplemented appropriately. , can effectively alleviate emotional problems.
5. Music therapy: soothing light music, Chinese medicine health music, yoga music, etc. It has all been proved that it has a significant auxiliary therapeutic effect in nerve therapy, which can calm people's emotions and purify people's hearts.
6. Social therapy: appropriately increase face-to-face interpersonal communication. Start with a small goal, a casual little communication, a simple little party, a simple little trip. Try to reach out to people or clubs that make you feel comfortable and warm. Increase communication with your family and don't be stingy with your concern.
In fact, suffering from depression is not terrible. The terrible thing is that you or your family didn't know, or you did, but you didn't take the right treatment.
Blindly seeking drug treatment will often bring irreversible side effects to the body, and once the drug effect passes, mental and health damage is likely to deepen the symptoms of depression, and want to take more drugs, forming a vicious circle of treatment.
Therefore, once you realize that you have mental problems such as depression, try the above-mentioned natural and harmless treatment methods and actively adjust.
Believe in yourself, believe in your body's self-healing ability, and remember to seek the help of your family and relatives to overcome the troubles caused by depression together.