[Epoch Times December 18, 2021](Reported by Hong Kong Epoch Times reporters Liang Xin and Wan Ping) On December 8, China Children’s Center and the Social Sciences Literature Publishing House jointly released the “China Children’s Development Report (2021)” ( Hereinafter referred to as the Children’s Blue Book), data shows that the incidence of adolescent depression is increasing year by year, and one out of every four children has a tendency to depression, and the mental health problems of Chinese children are becoming more and more prominent. Sociologists, mental health experts, and Chinese physicians pointed out the root cause of the problem and emphasized the importance of paying attention to the mental health of students and providing treatment programs from their respective professions.
The detection rate of depression in Chinese adolescents is nearly 1/4
In recent years, the incidence of mental behavior problems and mental disorders among Chinese children and adolescents has gradually increased.
According to China’s National Mental Health Development Report (2019-2020) published in 2020, the prevalence rate of depression in adolescents is 24.6%. Among them, the detection rate of mild depression was 17.2%, and the rate of severe depression was 7.4%. As the grade increases, the detection rate of depression has shown an upward trend.
The detection rate of depression in elementary school is about 10%, and the detection rate of severe depression is about 1.9%～3.3%;
The detection rate of depression in junior high school is about 30%, and the detection rate of severe depression is 7.6% to 8.6%;
The detection rate of depression in high school is close to 40%, among which the detection rate of severe depression is 10.9%-12.5%.
One in four children has a tendency to depression, and one in ten high school students is severely depressed.
At the end of December 2019, the CCP authorities admitted that mental health, especially the mental health of children and adolescents, has become an increasingly prominent major public health issue.
In November this year, the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China had to include depression (depression) screening into the scope of student health examinations.
Sociologists’ suggestions for society
Professor Liu Kaiming, director of the Shenzhen Institute of Contemporary Social Observation, said in an interview with Epoch Times that in recent years, many children have committed suicide and jumped off buildings in Shenzhen and other places. The reasons are complicated and varied.
He said, first of all, it has something to do with the (one-child) only child. Modern families are only children and have no playmates. The entire school emphasizes academic performance, and the pressure on learning is very high and has not been released. Many children jumping off the building are caused by the pressure of learning relation.
Professor Liu said that neither the school nor the parents paid much attention to mental health issues, did not pay attention to the overall growth of the body, and only paid attention to academic performance. From the school to the parents, there is a lack of attention to mental health.
He said that many parents have high expectations for their children, and they put considerable pressure on their children. The school has a lot of learning pressure and many homework. Many parents give their children many extracurricular learning tasks. Schools, society, parents, and families have no way to release children’s mental stress, nor do they care about children causing these problems.
In addition, many children between the ages of three and four are now playing electronic products, and there are more and more electronic games. People who are addicted to the virtual world have indeed reduced their interpersonal communication in the real world, which has also led to the decline of their personality growth, social skills, ability to talk to others, and communication skills, making them more closed and less good at resolving their mental stress. Professor Liu found that many children’s ability to communicate with people is getting weaker and weaker, which makes them more evasive from the real world and addicted to the virtual world.
Professor Liu called on society, schools and families to take responsibility and provide children with a healthy growth environment and not to put too much pressure on children. He believes that the most important thing for children in the first ten years is healthy and happy growth. Society now puts pressure on children from the beginning of kindergarten, which is against human nature.
In an interview with Epoch Times, Dr. Yang Jingduan, MD, chief physician of psychiatric and behavioral medicine at Jefferson University Comprehensive Medical Center, director of the Dow Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine, and editor-in-chief of China Mental Health Observatory, stated that mental illness affects a person’s physical and social functions. People can’t study, work, work, and can’t bear pressure. They have to lie down passively, which means they suffer from mental disorders.
When a child’s brain malfunctions and cannot cope with brain problems by himself, some will play video games, or not sleep, or do some self-harm behaviors, and do some coping methods that allow themselves to survive.
Dr. Yang Jingduan said that compared with adults, adolescents are more likely to suffer from depression, because the occipital lobe, which is responsible for sensing emotions in the brain, matures at the age of 15, and then to the temporal lobe and parietal lobe, while the (front) frontal lobe is responsible for emotion control. Ye (judgment of affairs, execution ability, choice, analysis, adjustment of emotions) will not mature until around 25 years old. The inconsistent physiological structure of maturity allows developing teenagers to perceive emotions like adults, but cannot control emotions and behaviors.
Dr. Yang suggested that psychotherapy should be used for mild symptoms, but the two sides of the psychotherapy doctors must trust each other to be effective.
The worst thing is that there is a serious mental problem. The current way to deal with it is to use psychotropic drugs to control symptoms, relieve crises, and reduce hospitalizations. However, psychotropic drugs cannot treat the root cause of the disease, but actually cover up the symptoms of the disease. . And its side work is very big, and it won’t work for a long time. Many children have no symptoms after taking the medicine, but they also lose function and cannot go to school. Under the action of drugs, these children become more and more unhealthy and lose their function more and more.
Either the cause of the disease has been detected, or it is a good thing. The current “mainstream medicine lacks effective treatment methods”, which are the defects and weaknesses of modern medicine itself.
He said that modern medicine has shrunk to the level of pharmaceutical medicine. This is only a small part of medicine, but it has become a monopoly and dominant position of medicine as a whole. Just like the anti-epidemic aspect, everything is now vaccines and new drugs. In fact, the inner mental health, psychological balance, nutritional balance, and lifestyle balance are the keys to health.
He said that mainland China has believed in atheism since the establishment of the Communist Party of China, and the people lacked a belief system. A person of faith, according to his beliefs to see the people and things he encounters, his attitude determines his emotions, emotions, also determines his behavioral response, and also affects his physical health and interpersonal relationship. relation.
Treatment of depression by Chinese physicians
Physician Hu Naiwen has been engaged in Western medical research for more than ten years and is a famous doctor in Taipei’s “Shanghai Tongdetang National Medicine”. During his research, he discovered that neurology is quite closely related to Chinese acupuncture and turned to research acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
In an interview with Epoch Times, Dr. Hu Naiwen said that the definition of mental health is the ability to maintain functional health in all aspects of physical, psychological, and social adaptation. In recent years, “lying flat” has become popular in mainland China. In fact, lying flat is only a symptom of depression.
Dr. Hu said that most Chinese physicians treat depression from qi and blood. Traditional Chinese medicine has a simple prescription to treat liver deficiency and blood dryness, called “Xiaoyao San” or “Jiawei Xiaoyao San”, which is treated according to the different conditions of each person. Depression in the body dissipates people’s depression.
He pointed out that there are qi and blood in the liver, heart, spleen, lung, and kidney. If the qi and blood in the five internal organs are harmonized, the whole body of the person will be truly healthy. For example, liver deficiency, blood deficiency, and dryness of qi are the main causes of physical illness. Qi-blood harmony means that when the qi and blood are too harmonious in Chinese medicine, all symptoms are improved.
There is another kind of disease, which is called “dirty” in Chinese medicine. This is a person who loses his temper easily, so he can cook the “Gumma and Jujube Soup”, which is cheap and effective. When the spleen and stomach become better, people will not get angry easily and sleep better. Up. If the family has a big temper, often drinking Ganmai Jujube Soup will also improve the family atmosphere.
Dr. Hu said that in general, Qiqing is a normal response of the human body to the outside world, and it does not cause illness. However, if the external mental stimulation is sudden and long-lasting, making the emotions too much, it will lead to the occurrence of diseases.
Chinese medicine believes that human emotional activities are closely related to the five internal organs. The human body’s emotional changes caused by the external environment are produced by the physiological activities of the five internal organs, so the seven emotions are called the five Zhi, which belong to the five internal organs. Excessive seven emotions, as a psychiatric factor, can directly damage the corresponding five internal organs.
Mental illness is an abnormality of the spirit and will, and the five internal organs can be used to treat mental illnesses, such as anger hurting the liver, joy and sadness, sadness hurting the spleen and stomach, sadness of the lungs, and panic hurting the kidneys.
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