"You can destroy him all you want, but you just can't defeat him" -- Ernest Hemingway
"Depression is like a black dog that bites me at every opportunity" -- Churchill
This documentary from CCTV, "How We Fight Depression. How We Fight Depression*** has six episodes that tell the real-life stories of some of the people who suffer from depression and what they are currently doing to cope with it.
Depression is a mental illness, and its prevalence is rising worldwide, making it the world's fourth-largest disease. But the vast majority of people still have a misunderstanding of this disease, think it is sick or lack of motivation, CCTV's documentary is a kind of depression is a kind of name, it is a kind of disease, is a big cold in the mind.
The film said: "The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and this sense of detached slackness is often misunderstood by those around us as laziness and lack of motivation", there is no exact cause of this disease, and the innate character and growth environment, as well as by the pressure and stimulation are related.
The cause of the disease probably varies from person to person. Some people suffer from anxiety and low self-esteem since childhood, and are overwhelmed by the pressure of adulthood, thus becoming depressed; some are depressed because they feel depleted of their inner energy after a long period of uninterrupted, high-volume work; some are depressed because of the sudden death of a close relative, and are trapped in grief for a long period of time.
I think everyone who suffers from depression can more or less feel the course of the disease from their own inner mood changes, and depression is essentially a kind of self-adjustment to the depletion of inner energy, it is the emergence of the "black dog", so that you realize that your inner energy has almost been depleted, and you need to stop at this moment to properly adjust and rest. The first thing you need to do is to get a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.
The documentary shares the stories of many people who have fought against depression, some of whom have left their original lives to popularize the knowledge of depression and found the meaning of existence and the strength to persevere; some have developed their own spare time activities, and found a lot of attempts and possibilities for their own lives; and some have chosen to specialize in psychology to find better treatments later on. The first thing you need to do is to find a better way of treating the problem.
Nowadays, the treatment of depression mainly relies on medication, and when the doctor determines the type and degree of the patient's illness according to the scale and long-term experience, the long journey of medication begins. In the movie, a journalist who has recovered from major depression says that medication is effective and we can go on relying on it, but ultimately, medication is only an aid, and we need to find another way to seek inner strength.
While every depressed person seeks strength, there are many research institutions across the country working to build a complete system for depression identification and treatment. Some research institutes are trying to train models through artificial intelligence and big data technology to determine whether a person is suffering from depression by recognizing their characteristic micro-expressions, with high accuracy in the experimental stage, and will add human body movements to the scope of recognition in the future. There are also research institutes that are trying to find more effective treatments by searching for proteins in the patient's blood cells to find the target of the drug's action. Similarly, some research institutes are trying to find the transformations that occur in the brains of patients with depression through brain-like research, so as to clarify the brain regions related to depression, and at present our scientists have already achieved better research results in this regard.
With the progress of science, I believe that in the future there will be very professional and effective ways to cope with and treat depression, but will people without depression necessarily be happy and joyful? Whether we are ill or not, each of us needs to accept ourselves, live in harmony with a bunch of problems, and persevere with that life answer or strength that belongs to us.