Can the functional damage to the brain caused by prolonged depression be completely restored?

Theoretically, the functional damage to the brain caused by long-term depression can be completely recovered, and whether it can be truly fully recovered is closely related to the patient's true level of commitment. If the depressive symptoms have largely disappeared, but there is still some cognitive impairment, there may be some irreversible damage.

Let's talk about the basic characteristics of depression.

Depression is a chronic disabling mental illness, and the characteristics of the depressive disorder determine that the chronic course of the disease may have some permanent changes in cognitive function, such as memory loss, slow thinking, changes in attention and orientation. Actually, it's what you call functional damage to the brain. Another example is slow thinking, which is like a person suddenly becoming stupid, thinking about simple problems in the past, and even not understanding many things.

Some netizens have also consulted me with such questions, and some people think that it may be the change brought about by taking antidepressants for a long time, and such a possibility does exist, because after all, antidepressants may have an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system. But it's only a possibility, and it's more likely that it's because of the changes brought about by depression itself. If you have stopped taking the medication but some changes in memory, concentration, judgment, orientation, etc., still do not improve, it may be that long-term depression has caused some cognitive impairment.

How can we work to change?

Although such changes are often irreversible, you can still try to do some professional ** training and take some professional cognitive drugs, such as Alzheimer's patients taking donepezil, which is a procognitive drug certified by the US FDA.

There are also some activities that use the brain to allow patients to do more in a targeted manner, such as playing mahjong, and patients who can play mahjong will not be much worse.

In the eyes of many people, mental illness is basically not good, and it is good to be able to reduce the symptoms. But in fact, if the method is right, the patient and his family cooperate, not only can be thorough, but also better than before.

There will always be some damage, but it will definitely be relatively good after that.

Brain damage due to depression can be reversed. The principle of the disease in patients with depression lies in the disturbance of the secretion of neurotransmitters under the action of chronic persistent stress. Excessive dopamine secretion inhibits neurotrophic factor secretion.

In fact, it is difficult to completely recover your health because your brain has been damaged, and it is difficult to recover.

The damage of depression to the brain's thinking ability can only be staged and will not last long. However, if the patient has been stuck in it, it is a different story. When the patient's living environment and living environment are satisfactory and there is no longer any pressure, it will naturally return to a normal state.

In fact, the nerve cells in our brain are constantly metabolizing every day, there are new nerve cells to generate, there are also old nerve cells apoptosis, the brain of the brain neurotrophic factor is to promote the interconnection and growth of neurons fertilizer, neuroplasticity and new neuronal production is very important, the damage to the brain is not permanent.

Studies have found that the secretion of brain-derived neurotrophic factors in the brain of depressed patients is reduced, and the secretion of this substance can be promoted by taking antidepressants or long-term physical exercise, so that the production of neuronal cells in the corresponding brain regions increases, and the neuronal cells of the damaged amygdala and hippocampus can be repaired. Thus playing the role of ** depression.

In addition, clinical doctors have also found that after the systematic and emotional stability of depressed patients, their thinking is quick, their emotions are stable, and they can well perceive joys, sorrows, and sorrows, attention, memory, comprehension, analysis and judgment and other abilities can be restored to normal levels.

Depression usually doesn't cause damage to the brain, but it can cause memory loss. This symptom will also be relieved when the condition recovers.

Depression can lead to symptoms such as slow thinking, depressed mood, and social avoidance. Patients should eliminate pessimism, depression, impatience, sadness and other bad emotional damage, establish the determination to overcome the disease, and maintain an optimistic mood, so as to improve the efficacy and promote.

But to be honest, there are more and more patients with depression now, but at the same time, the prevention and recognition rate of depression is very low. In many hospitals above the prefecture-level city, the recognition rate of depression is only 20%, and less than 10% of patients have received medication**.

Moreover, the age of onset of depression is getting younger and younger, and at the same time, depression is also very difficult, and more than 75% of patients with depression will have many times.

This generally depends on the severity of depression. Major depression and reciprocal depression have damage to the brain, mild depression has no damage to the brain, and some of the damaged brain function can be restored to normal levels after ****.

Depression does lead to changes in the brain, brain imaging studies have found that the hippocampus, frontal cortex, amygdala, ventral striatum and other brain regions of patients with depression atrophy, and the metabolism or cerebral blood flow in these parts is abnormal, and this abnormality is different in different periods of the disease, before and after the drug.

Depression is divided into mild, moderate and severe, generally mild and moderate is a problem of brain function, there is no substantial damage to the brain, after the combination of drugs, psychology, and physics, the patient will be cured. For patients with major depressive disorder, there is damage to the brain at this time due to the organic changes in brain cells that have occurred. The counter-action of depression causes the hippocampus in the brain, which is responsible for controlling emotions and forming memories, to shrink, and mechanical memory is affected.

Generally speaking, once the neuronal cells of the human brain are damaged, it is basically impossible to regenerate. But most of the "damage" to the brain in people with depression is temporary.

Because most of the root cause of depression's damage to the patient's own brain lies in the fact that the organic organs of the brain are under the dual pressure of mental and emotional, resulting in the disorder of some neurotransmitters in the brain.

And permanent damage and temporary "damage" are two different things. People with depression often experience sluggishness, memory loss, and stupidity due to atrophy of brain neurons, which are neurons that can be regenerated. Patients with depression can directly affect the slow recovery of hippocampal neurons by regulating the secretion of dopamine through regular drugs** until it is normal.

That's why many people with depression slowly feel like they've regained their normal physiological state of memory as before.

Nowadays, more and more young people are beginning to be associated with depression, not only because of the pressure in life, but also because of some family reasons, and there is a saying in medicine that depression is very harmful to the human brain, and at the beginning of depression, you will feel that you have no way to see the world in a normal wayAnd when faced with many things, they feel that they are out of the way, and there is no way to understand, and there is a very obvious characteristic that patients with depression feel that their memory is not very good.

Gradually forgetting the self at the beginning is to forget what just happened, slowly after a long time, what happened a long time ago also began to forget a little bit, that is to say, people who suffer from depression, feel that they are slowly disappearing in the world, so there is a saying that depression is permanent damage to people's brains, but in fact, it is not so serious, depression can be cured if you accept positive **, but you must take medicine in time at ordinary times, and cooperate with the doctor's **, In this way, the nervous system will slowly recover, and even if there is no way to recover as before, it will reduce the condition of depression.

Optimistic face life and depression is divided into mild and severe, at the beginning of the notice that you have depression, you should actively go to the hospital to seek help from a doctor, depression is also a certain damage to the human brain, but it does not mean that it can not be recovered permanently, as long as you follow the doctor's instructions, actively carry out **, with the drug will be **, and mild depression is easier to alleviate symptoms.

For severe depression, it may take a long time, but if you can actively accept it, it will slowly reduce the symptoms, so if you find that you have a tendency to depression, you should also seek medical attention in time, young people nowadays will face different pressures many times, so you should also take a certain way to soothe your mood, don't bury everything in your heart, so that after a long time, there will be a knot in your heart, and if you can't get out, it is easy to suffer from depression, If you want to open a little in everything, be optimistic, after all, a person's life is only a few decades, and it is not easy to come to the world for a trip, and you must always take a look at the prosperity and beauty of this world.

This is a permanent injury, because this injury is a long-term repression. People can't get out of it, it's just impossible.

It is permanent, because depression disrupts the secretion of neurotransmitters under the action of chronic persistent stress. Hippocampal neurons will atrophy and die if they don't get enough nutrition, this kind of thing will not regenerate, depression is promising, but only a small part, some will be inseparable from medicine for a lifetime.

It's permanent, and there's almost no way**, you must develop a good mood at all times, and you must learn to make yourself happy.

No, in fact, it can still be **, if it is not serious in the early stage, it can be done through drugs, and it can also be done through some psychological reasons, at this time, we need to go out more, contact some new people, and don't think about some bad things, in fact, the most important thing is a mentality.

No, it can be done, because there are many people with depression who have also become ordinary people, and they can also be good.

No. Just take your medicine on time. Keep a good mood, go out for a walk, and communicate more with people from the outside world.

Depression can return to normal if it is positive**. And after **, the symptoms of depression will also disappear, so the effect on the brain is not permanent.

The damage to the brain caused by depression is permanent and can be life-threatening if not actively accepted.

It depends. This is because mild depression has a temporary effect on the patient's brain, while severe depression has a permanent effect on the patient's brain.

The answer is yes, emotions can affect physiology, long-term depression will put the brain in a coma, and some people will also have headaches, heart tightness, and palpitations. As you perceive, this is generated by emotions, so the fundamental problem is to solve the emotions. Now that you know that your memory is failing, you might as well give yourself a vacation, don't ask yourself to memorize so many things, and spend a little more time regulating your emotions!

So let's talk about how to regulate depression!

The first point, acceptance, is not a good emotion we have to accept, bad emotions we have to exclude him, bad emotions have its positive meaning, before we find his positive meaning, first learn to accept depression is a basic emotion of people, we have to accept its existence, and many people will have depression, to learn to live in peace with it.

The second point, looking for the positive meaning of the exotic, I have seen an article, in fact, depression is a kind of deformation of anger, anger is due to wanting to achieve a certain desire to be blocked and make yourself angry, this energy is sent to the blocked thing, for example, when you are taking an exam, because the classmates around you copy you, but the teacher punishes both of you have demerits, so you will give your anger avatar to your classmates, give anger to the teacher, you will say why did you copy mine, I don't want to argue with you, or give it to the teacher, teacher, Why don't I arrest others? It's anger, and anger has power. And depression is another expression of anger, sometimes we can express anger directly, as I just said, to the classmates around you, you may directly talk to him, why did you copy me?

But for the teacher, oops, that's the teacher, although I am dissatisfied with the teacher, I didn't express it, but my power has accumulated into the body, and it is released in a slow form, so if you are depressed, you must think about whether you have any goals that you have not achieved, but you don't know how to solve it for a while, so you express your current emotions in the form of depression.

The third point, if you want to get out of depression, the best way is to leave a little emotion, you can choose to watch a video that particularly moves you, you follow the film**, moved to tears, the release of sadness, that is to say, your emotion is released by sadness, and it will not be released in depression.

It would be better if you sought professional psychological help, you could find your own core contradictions, in **? The core question is in**? Accept this core issue, life is like that, you know, everything happens has its inevitable reason, rather than rejecting, it is better to accept.

The world and I love you!