Unspeakable Pains:Disease Expression Of Patients With Depression

As a mental illness that endangers people’s physical and mental health,depression is associated with pains that are extremely difficult to express,as well as extreme suicidal tendencies and behaviors,making this disease from the public’s perspective.It is mysterious and unspeakable.The simplification of the media discourse and the sensational reporting framework have intensified the stigma of disease.As a subject of personal experience of depression,their disease expression is crucial for the discourse construction of depression,forming a comprehensive picture of depression discourse to help the public understand and face depression.This paper uses the methods of narratology and related theories to analyze the disease expression of depression patients in the network platform,and extract the patient’s perspective of disease manifestation,the cause of the disease,and depression from the perspective of the patient’s disease experiencer.Expressions of the influence of life and the ways and means of combating depression,thus engaging in dialogue with medical discourse and media discourse.Through the analysis of the life stories of 20 major depression patients published on the Internet,the study has the following conclusions:1.The expression and speech of diseases related to depression patients include explicit and easily expressed physical symptoms,such as insomnia,headache,slow thinking,etc.;their emotions often manifest as pessimistic and desperate,and then there will be emotional loss and loss.The vitality of life,the inability of the status quo,and other psychological pains that are difficult to describe and not understood by others.In addition to suffering from the pain of the disease,patients also have to suffer from the stigma that is caused or exacerbated by the metaphor of the disease,in which depression is given negative moral evaluation,exaggerated into incurable disease,and mistaken for emotional problems.These three types of metaphors are the most common ones in our life.2.Different from the biological factors in the medical discourse that focus on the onset of depression,the speech about the attribution of disease in patients with depression mainly focuses on the events in daily life and individual personality.It can be divided into two dimensions:external and internal.The external factors consist of discordant family relationships,school violence,social pressures,and traumatic emergencies.The internal factors mainly include personalities like sensitive,thoughtful,strong,self-denying,and pursuing perfection.External and internal factors work together to form the depressive symptoms in patients.3.When depression becomes the main axis of the patient’s life,the patient’s life and life meaning is reconstructed by the disease.On the one hand,depression destroys the daily life and life process of patients,as it is difficult for patients to complete simple daily life actions and normal work and social activ:ities under the twine of disease;on the other hand,with the deepening of treatment,"Life with depression" was accepted by patients.The patients will reintegrate into the society,adapt to the new job position and social roles,and at the same time harvest some friends and partners who accompanied them as the saying goes like "difficult makes true love appear".The bond of love in the family relationship will also be re-established in front of the disease.4.People with depression usually report diseases to themselves,their families,friends and medical workers.In addition to the expression of physical symptoms in the general sense,it is more likely for them to confide in the pain that is difficult to describe in the heart and to obtain emotional support.The patient’s public expression based on the Internet and the initiative to share the story of the disease is to speak out for the group of people with depression,and give emotional support to their fellow patients.Of course,due to the diversity of real-life life stories,stories of diseases that are not publicly available through various channels,as well as those that do not have the ability to express themselves,were not included in the analysis.In addition,depression itself is subdivided into many different types in the medical field.These different types of depression have different manifestations and treatments in people’s lives,and they have not been obtained through the analysis of life stories in this study.The answer,these have become the shortcomings and shortcomings of this study.However,this study provides disease expression from patients at least in addition to mainstream medical discourse and media discourse analysis.The inclusion of depression into the analysis of patient life stories also provides a diverse perspective on the complexity of the disease.