Why is depression that is "sick" by the brain

More than 300 million people around the world suffer from depression. Whether it is workplace, teenagers, or novice mothers, they are highly depressed people, and even athletes who bring us blood and strength often suffer severe anxiety and depression.

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Through the mass media, depression has gradually received the attention, and we still know too little about depression. When relatives and friends have depression, they cannot give the correct help, and even when we are sick, we do not know how to help for help.

The good news is that we already know that the depression is caused by the exchanges between the forehead-edge system. In recent decades, scientific research has greatly changed our understanding of the brain circulation that leads to depression. Depression is our A by -product of the brain neural circulation.

Is depression really terrible? Let's take a look at what symptoms will be in depression

感 Continue low and feel empty

都 Lost interest in everything around

丧 Surge in appetite or loss, weight change

消 Low self -evaluation, negative thinking

注意The thinking is slow, and the attention is not concentrated

◍ Insomnia or drowsiness

到 到 is easy to be noticed by others, anxious or slow behaviors

力 fatigue or loss of energy

自 The idea of ​​death or suicide often appears

If you have five or more manifestations of the above symptoms for two consecutive weeks, you are likely to suffer from severe depression (but only experts in the field of mental health can accurately diagnose). If you have less symptoms, it may be just mild depression.

But no matter what level of depression, you can reverse this trend through some small changes.

You can save yourself.

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Depression is like a vicious cycle, bringing you into sadness, fatigue and indifference vortex. Drug therapy and psychotherapy can effectively help us relieve depression. The scientific and correct cognition is particularly important!

内 Why do we always like to accumulate a sense of guilt and shame in our hearts?

—— Because they activate the reward center of our brain.

随 Why is it a very painful thing if you feel that it is randomly judged or rejected by others?

—— Because the brain circuit activated by society rejection is exactly the same as the circuit inspired by body pain.

Whether you are anxious or poor in physical and mental state, the same neuroscience principles can make you better understand the brain and know how to make it better.

The brain circuit controls our emotions, thinking, and behaviors through complex interconnection. When we are trapped in the state of depression, changing the activity of one of the circuits may affect the entire system by generating a chain reaction.

Once you let things start, they will automatically continue to drive themselves.

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references

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American psychiatric association. (2020) .desk reference to the diagnostic criteria from dsm-5.

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