Fast-paced life and work, coupled with fierce competition at ordinary times, often make people feel great pressure. If a person is in a stressful environment for a long time and cannot be relieved for a long time, it will easily lead to special depression. If this kind of depression cannot be alleviated, it will lead to diseases and affect people's health. What disease can you get from long-term depression?

What disease can you get when you are depressed?

1, easy to catch a cold

Everyone in our society is receiving all kinds of "stimuli" all the time. After suffering from severe mental trauma or long-term excessive tension and fatigue, the human body will reduce its immune function and resistance to infection, especially prone to respiratory infections.

The child is "short"

The competition in modern society is fierce, and many parents are eager to "expect their children to succeed". Influenced by the view that "children can't lose at the starting line", they expect too much from their children. Once their performance is not excellent enough, they will be too harsh. If the child is in this state of high mental stress and depression for a long time, it may affect the secretion of growth hormone. Insufficient secretion of growth hormone will definitely affect the growth of children.

3, digestive system diseases

When people are in a state of mental stress for a long time, the typical change of digestive function is loss of appetite, and even anorexia nervosa can be induced in severe cases (but some people show overeating under high stress); There are also some people who will have peptic ulcer of gastric and duodenal mucosa, which is manifested as erosion of gastric and duodenal mucosa, superficial ulcer and oozing blood, which can cause perforation and massive bleeding in severe cases.

4. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

Excessive mental load, persistent tension, long-term mental stimulation, annoyance and anxiety can make the mind in a state of tension for a long time, leading to the activation of sympathetic-adrenal medullary system and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, the increase of vasopressin secretion, the increase of blood viscosity and coagulation function, thus promoting the occurrence and development of hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and arrhythmia.

5, endocrine system diseases

Hyperthyroidism and diabetes are very common endocrine diseases in clinic. Long-term mental trauma or intense mental stimulation, such as anxiety, sadness, panic, tension, etc. , will lead to a variety of endocrine dysfunction, thus inducing hyperthyroidism and diabetes. In addition, long-term or severe mental stimulation can also significantly reduce the breast milk of lactating women or wean them suddenly, and women in their thirties may have decreased libido, menstrual disorder or menopause.

6.cancer constellation

Cancer is a disease that many people turn pale at the smell, and there are not a few people suffering from cancer around us. In fact, many factors lead to the occurrence of cancer, such as genetic factors, occupational factors, iatrogenic factors and bad living habits. Another very important aspect is that the spirit is in a state of tension and depression for a long time. Long-term mental depression will lead to the decline of immune function, and the immune system can not completely remove individual cancer cells in time, laying a curse for cancer.

7. mental illness

Long-term mental stimulation can lead to mental disorders of different degrees, which are manifested as anxiety, tension, fear, loneliness, irritability, unsociable, hatred and depression, and even depression, autism and suicidal tendency. Not only that, long-term mental stimulation will also change people's social behavior patterns, make people behave abnormally, and produce hostile, selfish or aggressive tendencies.