Psychology Chat ⁽⁸⁵⁾

Accepting and understanding depressed patients requires great patience. Many families of depressed patients think the patient is merely "putting on an act." They do look as if they are, because their depressive mood comes on without warning, for no reason and at no fixed time.

The WHO, projecting epidemiological trends, has produced a disease-burden report predicting that by 2030 unipolar depressive disorder, ischemic heart disease, and road-traffic accidents will be the leading causes of disease burden, with unipolar depression rising from third place to first. Most people do not follow…

Before writing this, I must state that I am not a qualified father myself, and the education I give my son may not be right. The views here are for reference only and open to debate. I write because parents troubled by family education have…

Everyone must die, and it is understandable that relatives are unwilling to give up on the dying. Yet sometimes one has to let go—for example, when a loved one's condition is so critical that medicine and surgery can no longer help. Modern people hand over…

Winter is the high season for depression. Although we do not yet fully understand why depression strikes more often in winter, it is a universal fact that people's moods sink and their interest declines in the cold season. Depression rates in the cold Nordic regions…

A young woman with advanced colorectal cancer came to me for help; sitting across from me, she wept while accusing her husband and his entire family of being the root cause of her cancer. She recounted her misfortune, blaming everyone around her except her own…

After his first monthly exam since starting the third year of junior high, my son did not do very well. After the exam, I had a long talk with him. First I told him that no one wins every battle; if you bomb an exam,…

In May 2019, the World Health Organization announced that it was adding gaming disorder to its International Classification of Diseases and classifying it as a mental health disorder. As society develops, the spectrum of human diseases keeps changing, so the appearance of new diseases is…

After reading Seligman's five-volume series on happiness, I was a bit astonished: it turns out there are people in the world like Seligman—to whom joy and happiness are a life feeling that must be trained to be attained. This is because I am by nature…

Over the past few days the news has been roiling about a girl from Chun'an, Qiandao Lake, Zhejiang, who was lured away by two tenants and ultimately murdered; the two tenants then took their own lives. The whole affair is deeply baffling, and all sorts…