What are the diseases that people who are depressed for a long time are prone to get?

Patients with long-term psychological depression can easily lead to damage to the spleen and stomach, resulting in stomach diseases such as poor appetite and gastric ulcers, and may also lead to mental diseases such as depression. In severe cases, diseases such as leukemia may occur. Symptomatic treatment is required during treatment. If the patient's symptoms are mild, the patient should learn to release their own pressure and adjust their living habits in daily life. If the patient's symptoms are serious, they must seek medical treatment in time. Drug treatment or surgical treatment can be carried out under the guidance of a doctor, and psychological counseling should be carried out at the same time.

1. If the spleen and stomach are damaged due to long-term psychological depression, there will be gastric juice secretion disorders, and in severe cases, patients will have gastric ulcers, gastric bleeding and other diseases. Usually, it is necessary to improve eating habits, eat regularly, eat less spicy, greasy, raw and cold food, and eat more light and easily digestible food. If the dietary conditioning is not good, you can also take traditional Chinese medicine conditioning such as Buzhong Yiqi Decoction and Sijunzi Decoction.

2. If a patient has a mental illness such as depression due to long-term psychological depression, it will affect the patient's life, and the patient will also lose interest in life, and may experience symptoms such as washing his face with tears, self-harm, suicide, etc. Psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions may occur. Patients - must actively seek medical treatment, psychological counseling. Usually you can do something you like to divert your attention. When the symptoms are severe, antidepressant drugs such as paroxetine, sertraline, etc. can be taken under the guidance of a doctor.

3. If the immunity is low due to long-term psychological depression, the defense of the immune system in the body is reduced, the ability of white blood cells to phagocytose viruses or bacteria is weakened, and the proliferation and differentiation of white blood cells cause the number of white blood cells to increase, resulting in an inflammatory response, which can lead to the occurrence of leukemia. Patients can take dasatinib, imatinib, interferon and other drugs under the guidance of doctors. Surgical treatment of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation can also be performed. Patients - must maintain a good attitude and actively treat.