What is the harm if depression is not treated?

 Life is inevitably ups and downs. Psychological distress and depression can be the norm. Some people may succeed in coming out, while others are struggling with depression. The WHO report shows that less than 25% of depression patients receive hospital treatment. Most people who are depressed or depressed do not come to the psychiatric clinic to seek help. People may not have depression when they or their family or friends are facing depression. Realize that this is a disease.

If patients with depression are not treated in time and allowed to develop, it may affect the life and work of the patients, and may even be unable to survive normally.

First of all, patients with depression have significantly increased speech movements, anxiety and fear, agitation and self-injury, which are very dangerous. One of the manifestations of severe depression is that the patient gradually exhibits the characteristics of slow speech, low speech, low volume, and slow response. Often the patient has to overcome major resistance in every word and move. In the most severe cases, it can be stupor.

The emotional changes of patients with severe depression are the main symptoms. At first, it may be manifested in a short period of time as a decline in the ability to experience various emotions, showing listlessness, and not interested in everything. The patients felt'negligence' and the "unsatisfactory things" in front of them, and they couldn't go back. Looking into the future, the feeling of joy disappeared completely, and the world-weariness gradually sprouted.

The movements of patients with severe depression, especially gesture movements, will be significantly reduced, and their movements will be slow. A small number of people with severe depression may remain silent, stay in bed, and present a state of depressive stupor. Patients with major depression tend to have pale and old faces, delayed eyesight, poor appetite, decreased physical fitness, decreased sweat and saliva secretion, constipation, and decreased libido. Female patients often amenorrhea.

Depression is the disease with the highest suicide rate. Depression has become the first important disease that causes a serious burden on mankind in the global disease. The suffering caused to patients and their families and the loss to society are unmatched by other diseases. The main reason for this situation is that society lacks a correct understanding of depression, and prejudice makes patients reluctant to go to the psychiatric department. In China, only 5% of depression patients have received treatment, and a large number of patients have not been diagnosed and treated in time, their condition has deteriorated, and even serious consequences of suicide have occurred. On the other hand, because the people lack knowledge about depression.

Depressed patients are depressed and pessimistic. In severe cases, it is easy to have suicidal thoughts. In addition, 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 depression patients is 20 times higher than that of the general population. 

More than half of the social suicide population may be depression patients. Some unexplained suicides may have suffered from severe depression before they were alive, but they have not been discovered in time. Because suicide occurs when the disease has progressed to a certain degree of severity. Therefore, early detection of diseases and early treatment are very important for patients with depression.