Recognize the symptoms of menopausal depression

It is common for menopausal women to suffer from depression in clinical practice, which is mainly manifested as fatigue, low mood, etc. Depression seriously affects the physical and mental health of menopausal women and even affects the quality of life of women in their later years. If you want to prevent menopausal depression, it is important to understand the symptoms of menopausal depression.

1. Depression is the main symptom. At first, it may manifest as a decrease in the ability to experience various emotions, listlessness, and lack of interest in everything in a short period of time. The patient feels that "faults" and "unpleasant things" in front of him are flooding into his mind and lingering. Looking into the future, the bleak and dim, the joy completely disappears, and the idea of ​​world-weariness gradually sprouts. Heavy depression always brings self-blame and self-guilt. The patient feels that he has lost his ability to work and has become a waste or a social parasite. Some people exaggerate the general shortcomings of the past into unforgivable sins and repeatedly ask for treatment. The patient may refuse to eat or only eat white rice because of the delusion of guilt. When the mood is extremely low, he may commit suicide or punish himself.

2. Physical symptoms: The patient looks haggard and old, has sluggish eyes, poor appetite, decreased physical fitness, reduced sweat and saliva secretion, constipation, and decreased libido. This is one of the symptoms of menopausal depression. Female patients often have amenorrhea, and early awakening is the most prominent sleep disorder. Patients often wake up 2-3 hours earlier than before, cannot fall asleep after waking up, and wait for the arrival of this day with pessimism. This symptom is of great significance in diagnosis.

3. Slow thinking, slow speech, low voice, small amount of speech, slow response, and every word and action requires overcoming great resistance. In the most serious cases, it may be a state of stupor. Patients with agitated depression have significantly increased speech and movements, anxiety and fear, and are very dangerous.

4. "Hidden depression": some patients with depression have obvious physical symptoms, often manifested as repeated or persistent headaches, dizziness, chest tightness, shortness of breath, general weakness, palpitations, constipation, abnormal appetite, weight loss, etc., while depressive symptoms are often concealed.

I hope that the symptoms of menopausal depression described above can attract the attention of patients. Family members of patients with menopausal depression should care for and understand the patients, fully estimate the severity of the disease, and take nursing measures.

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