This column helps you gently understand depression-related issues, comprehend the physical and mental mechanisms behind feelings of low mood, helplessness, loss of interest, and physical changes, establish a clear and stable foundation for self-observation for subsequent tests, and help you feel less guilty and more understanding.

B-1.The Essence of Depression: The "Low Energy Mode" of the Emotional System“
This column explains that depression is not simply a bad mood, but rather an emotional system entering a low-energy mode. It helps you understand the frozen mind and body reaction behind feelings of powerlessness, numbness, and decreased hope, and to see your mind and body pleading for rest, support, and reconnection.

B-2. The main types of depressive disorders: understanding, identifying, and coping strategies
This section introduces common types of depressive disorders, including major depressive disorder, persistent depression, postpartum depression, and seasonal affective disorder, to help you build an identification framework, find more appropriate coping, assessment, and support approaches, and reduce blind judgment.

B-3. Mental and physical manifestations of depression
This column outlines the emotional, cognitive, physical, and behavioral manifestations of depression, helping you to see signals such as low mood, fatigue, sleep changes, withdrawal, and self-blame, and to understand your true state from a holistic perspective, instead of just blaming yourself.

B-4. The causal mechanism of depression: multiple factors working together
This section explains that depression is often caused by a combination of physiological, psychological, and social factors, helping you understand how trauma, stress, relationship difficulties, and body rhythms affect your mood, reducing simplistic self-blame and shame, and helping you see the root causes.

B-5. Why should we pay attention to depression-related issues?
This column reminds you to pay attention to the impact of depression-related issues on your studies, work, family, physical health, and life safety, to reduce neglect, to promptly recognize signs that require support, to leave room for help and intervention, and to protect yourself.

B-6. Depression-related problems are identifiable, treatable, and curable
This column helps you build hope and understand that depression can be gradually identified, intervened, and healed through assessment, psychological support, necessary treatment, lifestyle adjustments, and stable relationships, without having to endure it alone for a long time or deny yourself.