Loss of interest in life

Introduction Losing interest in daily life is one of the symptoms of depression. Depression is a form of seizure of manic depression. Depression is low, thinking is slow, and speech movement is reduced or slow as a typical symptom. Depression seriously afflicts patients' lives and work, and places a heavy burden on families and society. About 15% of depressed patients die from suicide. A joint study by the World Health Organization, the World Bank and Harvard University shows that depression has become the second most common disease burden in China.

Cause

First, genetic factors.

Second, physical factors.

Third, the function and metabolic abnormalities of the central nervous system.

Fourth, spiritual factors. The onset of manic depressive psychosis may be related to mental stimuli, but can only be considered as a predisposing factor.

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Neurological examination of brain CT examination of brain Doppler ultrasound (TCD)

[Types of depression]

First, endogenous depression: that is, lazy, staying, changing, worrying, and worrying about "five signs" (brain biogenic amines are absolutely insufficient).

Second, reactive depression: depression caused by various mental stimuli and frustration. In life, people who suffer from natural disasters, man-made disasters, lost love, serious illness, career setbacks, etc., who suffer from poor psychological stress, are prone to reactive depression.

Third, occult depression: low mood and depression symptoms are not obvious, often manifested as various physical symptoms, such as palpitations, chest tightness, middle and upper abdominal discomfort, shortness of breath, sweating, weight loss, insomnia.

4. Depression characterized by learning difficulties: This type of depression can lead to learning difficulties, distraction, memory loss, overall decline or sudden decline in grades, disgusting, terrorism, truancy or refusal.

V. Drug-induced secondary depression: If some patients with hypertension take antihypertensive drugs, they will continue to feel depressed and depressed.

Sixth, secondary depression caused by physical diseases: such as heart disease, lung disease, endocrine and metabolic diseases, even a bad cold, high fever, etc., can cause such depression.

7. Postpartum depression: It is especially caused by a strong guilt and low self-esteem for their babies (especially when rural women give birth to a baby girl, when they are discriminated against by their mother or husband), hate, dislike or dislike the child's abnormal psychology. Crying, insomnia, inability to eat, depression, is a common symptom of this type of depression.

[The three main symptoms of depression]

Many people are no stranger to depression, but depression is essentially different from the general "unhappy". It has obvious characteristics. There are three main symptoms in combination: low mood, slow thinking and exercise inhibition.

1. Low mood is not happy, always sad, and even pessimistic. In the "Dream of Red Mansions", Lin Daiyu, who sighs and sighs all day long, is a typical example.

2. The slowness of the dimension is that the brain is not good enough to remember, and it is difficult to think about the problem. The patient felt that his brain was empty and stupid.

3, exercise inhibition is not love activities, all over the lazy. Walking slowly, less words, etc. Serious may not eat or move, life can not take care of themselves.

Differential diagnosis

Exclusion criteria:

1. Does not meet the mental disorders caused by brain organic mental disorders, physical diseases and psychoactive substances and independent substances.

2. There may be some schizophrenic symptoms, but it does not meet the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. If the diagnostic criteria for symptoms of schizophrenia are met at the same time, the differential diagnosis can refer to the diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective psychosis.

Mainly identified with the following diseases:

1. Endogenous depression: including unipolar depression, bipolar disorder (both depressive and manic episodes), and depression associated with schizophrenia.

2, body-related depression: caused by a variety of physical and neurological diseases, including drugs and various harmful substances.

3, psychogenic and reactive depression: Cardiac depression as usual, only once in a lifetime. If you have a seizure twice, you should be seen as a reaction to a normal personality, or simply endogenous depression.

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