What should be noticed after depression is cured

After healing

Antidepressant treatment has a therapeutic effect on depressive mood and the accompanying anxiety, tension and physical symptoms, and the effective rate can reach 60% to 70%. Therefore, by actively cooperating with the doctor's treatment and strictly following the doctor's prescription, most of the patients' symptoms can be relieved and the state before the illness can be restored.

However, the recovery of depression is related to many factors. Some patients may experience repeated episodes of depression, or even chronic depression, resulting in residual depression-related symptoms, and social and professional skills may also be affected to varying degrees. Impact.

Suicide is one of the most serious consequences of patients with depression. The latest data from the World Health Organization show that the suicide rate of patients with depression is significantly higher than that of the general population, and about 1/5 of patients with depression will end their lives by suicide.

Recovery

Depression patients should undergo rehabilitation treatment in professional medical institutions, including the rehabilitation of personal life self-care ability, family function rehabilitation, social skills rehabilitation, and vocational skills rehabilitation.

Effective rehabilitation treatment can help patients build confidence in the recovery of the disease, enable them to return to daily life more quickly, re-adapt to society, and reduce the burden on the patient’s family at the same time.

relapse

After the patient's first depressive episode is relieved by effective treatment, about half of the patients will not relapse, but patients who have experienced 3 or more depressive episodes or who have not received maintenance treatment will have a significantly increased risk of recurrence, reaching more than 90%.

Failure to obtain sufficient support from relatives, friends and society in daily life, failure to adapt well to society, encountering stressful events, combined with chronic physical illness, failure to strictly follow the doctor’s instructions to take antidepressants, etc., may cause depression Of recurrence.