What are the symptoms of depression menopause?

What are the symptoms of depression menopause?

Menopausal women is an emotional problem can not be ignored, according to scientific statistics, approximately 42% of urban women, there is a greater change in emotions, especially those with menopausal symptoms of depression, while the relatively low proportion of women in rural areas. There are many women are diagnosed with depression after being reluctant to face it.

Menopause common symptoms of depression:

(1) somatic symptoms: the patient looked haggard hoarse, eyes retardation, poor appetite, physical decline, sweat and saliva secretion decrease, constipation, loss of libido. Female patients often amenorrhea. Sleep Disorders in to the most prominent early awakening, which is characteristic of depression one of the symptoms. Patients often than before early awakening 2-3 hours, after waking can not sleep, full of pessimism waiting for this day to come. This symptom in the diagnosis have significance.

(2) The Legend of thinking slowly: Speed steamed bread, voice low, language less, response retardation, one made a move had to be overcome significant resistance. The most serious, it can showed stupor. Loud and depression patients, speech movements are significantly increased, anxiety and fear, emotional self-injury, risk is high.

(3) action in particular, to reduce gestures slow movement: a few severe cases, depression may be silent, immobile in bed, saying that depressive stupor. Suicide attempts and behavior is the most dangerous of patients with depression symptoms. Severe symptoms can occur in the period, but also appear in the early or improves. Patients are often preceded by a well-planned, covert action, in order to evade the attention of medical staff, which often successful suicide.

(4) depression: The main symptoms: At first the performance possible in a short time for a variety of emotional experience diminished capacity, performance listlessness, not interested in all things. Patients feel 'fault "and the immediate" things do not "have rise in my heart, do not linger. Forward-looking and slim dim, of joy completely disappeared, gradually sprouting world-weary thinking. A heavy emotional depression always brings remorse since the crime of , the patient feels that they have lost the ability to work, become waste or social parasites. Some of the general shortcomings and mistakes of the past into the unforgivable sin inflated repeatedly request. patients may be due to the evil delusions and antifeedant or is only willing to eat rice. emotional extremely low when suicide or self-punishment.

(5) "masked depression": in some patients with depression, somatic symptoms, usually manifested recurrent or persistent headache, dizziness, chest tightness, shortness of breath, general weakness, palpitations, constipation, stomach disorders, weight mitigation, etc.. The depressive symptoms are often obscure. Physical examination often without corresponding positive findings, such patients are often long-term in medical treatment, is often mistaken for neurosis and other diseases. Ineffective symptomatic treatment of these patients, while antidepressant drugs can produce good results, so that this disease as "masked depression."

(6) Night Light weight daytime symptoms of depression: depressed mood, particularly in the early morning instead. Menopause is a long stage, the medical point of view from the age of 45 until 60 or 65 years of age will end.

The most typical symptoms of menopause is menopause occurred in 1-3 years, but with longer menopause, some women to ease symptoms of menopause, but more emphasis on mood symptoms of mitigation on the slower even continue for a long time .


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