Depression and Mental Health

Depression is a medical psychiatric disorder that results in sustained sorrow, despair, and unnoticeable emotions. Depression affects the way people feel, act and think. It may also cause mental and physical problems. People with depression feel that it is difficult to do daily life. As a human being, many of us have encountered difficult times in our lives. Though these emotions are short-lived, people with depression will have long-term emotions, they will continue to restart the negative situation and emotions of the past.

The prejudice of stigma of depression and mental health is the main reason why 80% of people with mental health problems can not speak without asking for help. In the United States, 40 million people are suffering from depression. This means that about 25 million people suffer from depression in silence. This is in turn responsible for about 40,000 suicide each year. Depression is estimated to cause the most health problems among all diseases. Because depression causes other health problems and is often untreated, it is economically the most expensive disease in the world. Unlike emotional experiences of sorrow, loss, and emotional state of the past, clinical depression may persist and potentially hinder other people's functional abilities.

As a person working in the mental health industry, it is the first time to tell you that this is a big problem that is unresolved. I am cooperating with mental health experts in a new program to help men and women fight depression. Usually, when I talk about depression, anxiety and other mental health problems to men and women, the general way of saying is "I do not know" when asking them whether they think they are the cause of the problem. However, it is my excuse that men and women who answered only know it, they just avoided deeper conversation and intimate conversation. Therefore, we surveyed more than 500 men and women and the results were shocking. In the survey, respondents can choose as many answers as possible about their situation. I asked questions such as "Do past pain and trauma affect depression? Are emotional or human relationship issues part of depression?"

We believe in a two-pronged approach to combating depression and the stigma of mental health problems. Depression and psychological health problems need to be humanized. This does not apply to infinite statistics. Statistics are important, but the stories of people living in mental health problems will force others to call for help. It is not as good as speaking about people's talks and what is effective for treating them, saying one in ten people has evidence of depression.