With the deaths of public figures such as singer Ben Xi and actor Qiao Renliang, depression has gradually come into public view. However, in China, many people still do not think that depression is a disease and even blame the disease. The person's heart is fragile and unable to resolve emotions.

According to data sources such as Baidu Encyclopedia (basically credible), the number of known patients with depression in the world is 322 million, while the number of patients with depression in China is: no accurate data.

This shows from the side that depression has not attracted widespread attention in China.

But in fact, depression is the fourth largest disease in the world and is expected to become the second largest disease by 2020; however, my country’s medical prevention and treatment of depression is still at a low recognition rate, and prefecture-level cities The above hospitals have an identification rate of less than 20%, and less than 10% of patients have received relevant drug treatment; and, at the same time, the onset of depression (and suicide incidents) has begun to show a trend of younger age (university, and even primary and secondary school students) . In summary, the popularization, prevention, and treatment of depression require urgent attention, and the prevention and treatment of depression has been included as a national mental health priority. ?

And I also saw an interesting data in a book. The data pointed out that 15% of patients with depression will eventually commit suicide, but 85% of them will be cured and their condition will be stabilized.

I showed this data to friends suffering from depression and those suffering from depression. The result was that the friends suffering from depression only saw the suicide rate of 15, and unconsciously ignored the suicide rate of 85. The cure rate and stability rate are the opposite for those who are not sick.

This illustrates a problem. When faced with a choice, patients with depression will subconsciously choose the bad side. This is the reason why the suicide rate of patients with depression remains high.

When the disease takes control of the brain, staying alive becomes a matter of resistance. There is still a long way to go to popularize depression in China.