The very name suggests that recognizing the disease will not be so easy. Masked depression is a hidden depressive condition that "hides" and takes the form of any other malaise. At the same time, symptoms of depressed depression - mood decay, lack of energy, laziness, pessimism, recede into the background and are perceived as natural companions of a physiological disease.
As a result, a person experiencing pain in the heart, back, head and in general, anywhere, goes to the precinct, is examined, and the doctor, as expected, will certainly find some deviation from the norm, which will be treated. The subdepressive state or masked depression can be treated for years unsuccessfully as a cardiological disease, vegetative-vascular, musculoskeletal, etc. And after all, coping with this type of depression is not at all difficult if the patient is lucky enough to get to a therapist.
Symptoms
Of course, masked depression is famous for its hidden symptoms, but nevertheless, their presence can be suspected.
1. Diagnosis of the following diseases:
- vegetative-vascular dystonia;
- cardioneurosis;
- migraine;
- neurosis of the stomach;
- transient hypertension.
All these diseases are real, but if their treatment does not help, one can doubt their availability.
2. Seasonality of symptoms - you are always ill in the mornings or evenings, or at certain times of the year.
3. When there are symptoms, there are no reasons - stress, diet , illness.
4. Treatment of "basic" disease does not help, and having tested, antidepressants, you get better on the contrary.
5. Presence (though not obvious) of signs of usual depression.
After going to a psychologist, everything can clear up, because the treatment of masked depression is no different from treating depressed forms. Listen to your body, and always treat critically and to the opinion of doctors (because it is always subjective), and to prescribed medications. It is better to check with several specialists than to "feed" yourself with tablets for nothing.