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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression is a common disease worldwide. According to 2017 data, the number of people affected is estimated at more than 264 million.
Constant mood fluctuations and short-term emotional responses to daily challenges are different symptoms of depression.
It can become a serious disease when prolonged over time with moderate to severe intensity.
It can cause great psychological distress and impaired functioning in the family, at school or at work in the affected person.
In the worst case scenario, it can lead to suicide. About 800,000 people die every year due to suicide, being the second leading cause of death among the 15 to 29 age group.
Depression can be defined by feelings of sadness and / or unwillingness to perform daily activities, even those that gave the person immense pleasure to perform.
It is normal to feel sad when something sad occurs, such as death or loss, but depression is when sadness is not temporary and goes beyond a plausible period of time.
Untreated depression usually lasts approximately six months, but it can last two years or more.
It is considered the second most common mental health disorder, after anxiety.
Women are more likely to suffer from depression than men
In the elderly, depression can cause some symptoms similar to dementia.
It can start at any age, even in childhood, but it usually starts when the person is in their teens, or between 20 and 30 years of age.
Treatment for depression usually involves prescribing antidepressants (medication to treat depression) and psychological therapy (psychotherapy).
However, we often find that the use of drugs can decrease symptoms and make the person more functional in the short term.
In the medium and long term, what happens is that patients do not recover from the disease, being dependent on daily chemical medication to remain functional.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a different view on depression. TCM believes that there is a connection between a certain feeling and a certain organ.
For example, there is a connection between the feeling of anger and anger with the Liver organ, between fear and the Kidney, between joy and the Heart, anxiety / concern with the Spleen / Stomach and sadness and the Lung.
And he also argues that a feeling or emotion prolonged in time, can lead to damage to the respective organ and vice versa, a problem in the organ can lead to the appearance of a feeling or emotion. Sometimes the issue is psychosomatic and at other times it can be somatopsychic.
Through the diagnosis, the clinical questionnaire and the report of the patient's symptoms, we try to frame the problem in a chronology that allows us to determine its cause / origin.
If we work to resolve the source of the problem, we resolve the symptoms automatically.
It is possible, in time, to help these patients regain the quality of life they lost in all the time they suffered from the disease and achieve a normal life without chemicals.
However, this time varies from patient to patient, taking into account several variables, such as the age of the patient, the duration of the disease, etc.
