Since february this year, young scholar jiang tarin and “genius historic junior” lingaven have brought depression to public view by committing depression. The new kyoto newspaper reports that depression rates range from 1. 6 per cent to 4. 1 per cent in various parts of the country, but there are currently only over 20,000 psychiatrists. The market for the treatment of depression, on the other hand, is clouded, with the emergence of a “seat” for the treatment of depression by birthing beauty specialists, irregular intervention by a psychologist, etc., and a “treatment alliance” of doctors, families and society, which is also lacking。
“with cosmic energy to remove incoherent information”, “no needles, no medications, within a month” ... The current turmoil in the depression treatment market is alarming. However, the symptoms of treatment are only part of depression as a social “problem”. It has long been suggested that depression will be the second biggest killer after cancer by 2020, but neither the level of social awareness of depression nor the corresponding levels of medical treatment and public intervention match its severity。
In public opinion, depression was once coloured. The suicides of jiang tarin and lingaven, many of whom spoke about the reasons behind them, and the invisibility of the pathological nature of depression itself, are a waste of common sense opportunities that celebrity depression cases could have brought. This is just the tip of the iceberg where depression is misread. More people with depression may live in the shadow of social misunderstanding and even discrimination。
Social perceptions of depression lag behind, with two obvious side effects. The first is that the “disease properties” of depression remain invisible for a long time, often bound by the concept of “psychiatry”. Discrimination, which contributes objectively to the deterioration of the living environment of the patients, is associated with a lack of public assistance for the victims of depression, including assistance for mutual help organizations for the victims of depression, and the training of professional healers。
In terms of professional assistance, there are currently as many as 600,000 certified psychologists in the country, but they are not effectively integrated into specialized medical institutions. Behind this is a serious disconnect between the scientific perception and information of depression in the context of the disease. As a matter of fact, the lack of basic census diagnostic data for depression patients in the country at present determines that it is difficult for the real demand for treatment resources from depression patients to be accurately transmitted to the improvement of the “supply side”, resulting in “structural” resource constraints, such as the failure of counselling to upgrade into a professional depression diagnostic force。
Because of the long-term, repetitive nature of depression treatment and the high cost of treatment, many patients are either “involved” in emergencies or “live out”. In this context, the full integration of depression treatment into health care and the general availability of public-interest counselling services, or the reduction of the low rate of depression treatment, also facilitate the “demystification” of depression. According to media reports, the current proportion of mental health inputs in the country is only 1 per cent, compared with 20 per cent in some countries, indicating the urgent need to “divide”。
The public system of treatment is an indispensable part of the gap, as is the social prevalence of depression. As in 2009 japan launched a video course to combat student depression in secondary schools, many students began to focus on individual psychological counselling. This measure is particularly necessary in the context of an ageing trend of depression。
Letting depression and depression go to the sun, rather than being plagued by discrimination, as a result of the market for abusive treatment, can no longer be avoided. Whether at the macro level, a comprehensive mapping of the information files of people suffering from depression in china, or greater investment in resources for treatment of depression and the training of professionals to complete the weak system of treatment and rehabilitation, there is an urgent need for public-sector “awakening” and action. It is understood that the fight against depression has been included in the national mental health priorities, which should be followed by concrete action to address the moral debt that we do not have enough care for the depressed。
