What are the dangers of depression?

There is actually no need to say much about the harm of depression. As a serious mental illness, it will affect the patient's physical health and damage his mental health. Moreover, many patients with depression have suicidal tendencies, which is harmful to the patients and those around them.

The harm of depression: 1. Impact on physical health

Patients often experience recurrent or persistent physical problems such as headaches, dizziness, chest tightness, shortness of breath, general weakness, palpitations, abnormal appetite, weight loss, etc. Depression patients often have haggard and old faces, dull eyes, weakened physical fitness, decreased sweat and saliva secretion, constipation, decreased libido, and severe sleep disorders. Female patients often suffer from amenorrhea. These diseases undoubtedly increase the patient's mental suffering, thereby aggravating the symptoms of depression.

The harm of depression 2. Destroying the stability of mental health

Patients often have emotional problems such as restlessness, temper, irritability, anxiety, and even mild hallucinations and fear symptoms, which have a huge negative impact on their mental health. It seems like looking at everything through tinted glasses, and it is obviously subjective. They interpret everyday people and events according to their own pessimistic understanding. While blaming myself, I also blame the outside world. Repeated inner struggles consume the passion of life. A sesame-sized problem was magnified to the size of a watermelon. If you continue to question and analyze, you will get deeper and deeper into the trap and find it difficult to extricate yourself.

The harm of depression 3. Interference with social functions

Living with someone who is depressed is difficult. People with depression not only torture themselves, but also affect the quality of life of those around them. Patients with severe depression often have slow thinking and associative thinking, slow speech, low voice, small amount of speech, and slow response, which makes it difficult for patients to communicate with others. On the other hand, severe depression causes patients to move slowly or even become bedridden, presenting a state of depressive stupor, which almost completely deprives patients of the ability to take care of themselves.

The harm of depression 4. It brings the shadow of death

A survey by psychiatric experts in my country shows that more than half of patients with depression have suicidal thoughts. According to research. Everyone will suffer from depression at least once in their life journey. But most people suffering from depression are “unaware that they are sick.” Only 25% of patients know. According to the World Health Organization, the suicide rate among people with clinical depression is 10%, and 20% of them eventually end their lives by suicide. Although many depressed patients wrote in their suicide notes that death is a happy thing. However, the fact is that severe depression controls the human brain and tortures the human spirit, forcing patients to have no choice but to choose extreme death as a way out.