{"id":29368,"date":"2025-07-28T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29368\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:33:10","slug":"explainer-how-can-hongkongers-seek-help-for-depression-and-what-treatment-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29368\/","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=\"nofollow 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":29369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,6319,84,21333,15674,23077,23076,393,394,10565,23074,1942,13511,23078,23075],"class_list":["post-29368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-depression","tag-health","tag-homicide","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-mental-wellness-association","tag-may-lam-mei-ling","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychiatric-disorders","tag-samaritan-befrienders-hong-kong","tag-social-media","tag-suicide","tag-suicide-homicide-tragedy","tag-tsuen-wan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}