{"id":298351,"date":"2025-07-28T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298351\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:30:17","slug":"explainer-how-can-hongkongers-seek-help-for-depression-and-what-treatment-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298351\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer | How can Hongkongers seek help for depression, and what treatment is available?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong was shocked on Sunday by a suspected <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3319722\/woman-2-children-found-dead-hong-kong-hotel-after-man-fell-premises?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=homepage?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">murder-suicide case<\/a> in which a father with a history of mental health issues was believed to have taken his own life after killing his wife and two children at a Tsuen Wan hotel.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">No suicide note was found, but the 37-year-old man had posted on social media before the incident that he was struggling mentally and was very worried about not being able to take care of his family. A source said he had suffered from depression.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Police psychologist Michael Fung Ho-kin explained that emotional illnesses could not be \u201ccured\u201d by a hike or a meal after which the sufferer could \u201cgo home and become happy again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Post looks at the prevalence of depression in the city and the different treatments available.<\/p>\n<p>1. What is depression?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Depression is a common mood disorder affecting 5 per cent of men and 10 per cent of women in developed countries. It is characterised by symptoms such as a persistently low mood, loss of interest and energy, and negative thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong was shocked on Sunday by a suspected murder-suicide case in which a father with a history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[1301,105,47723,3749,110560,110559,218,104771,110557,182,29593,110561,110558,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-depression","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-homicide","11":"tag-hong-kong","12":"tag-hong-kong-mental-wellness-association","13":"tag-may-lam-mei-ling","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-psychiatric-disorders","16":"tag-samaritan-befrienders-hong-kong","17":"tag-social-media","18":"tag-suicide","19":"tag-suicide-homicide-tragedy","20":"tag-tsuen-wan","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114930635531600885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}