In the modern world, the questions "How to get out of depression?", "How to overcome depression?", "How to deal with depression?" are very acute. After all, depression, as a disease, in many ways remains a complex and unclear phenomenon, researchers have more than a dozen varieties of it, and the course of the disease is extremely individual. However, there are general guidelines for dealing with depression. And if they are carried out, then there is a high probability of quickly returning to a full life, full of joys and pleasure.
Instructions
Step 1
Sometimes it is enough to get out of the house for a few days, and the depression begins to weaken and recede. When visiting new places (and even old ones, where they have not been for a long time), a person inevitably gets certain impressions and emotions that act as a distraction. In addition, any trip does not do without communication with different people, this does not allow to be isolated in oneself.
Step 2
It is not for nothing that in all ages, doctors have talked about sleep as the best medicine. Insomnia often accompanies depression, so you need to take steps to establish healthy sleep. To do this, you must go to bed in complete silence, in a well-ventilated room. If necessary, you can take a weak sleeping pill or drink herbal soothing tea at night (the composition should contain valerian root, motherwort, lemon balm, peony and lavender flowers).
Step 3
Let humor into your life and very soon you will notice that interest in life is awakening, and the desire to live and love comes to replace the oppressed state. Watch comedies, concerts of famous comedians, listen to recordings of infectious laughter - your being will become much brighter and more positive.
Step 4
Don't go deep into your worries. A person who is in a depressed state tends to scroll a thousand times negative thoughts in his head, to return again and again to the point from which, as it seems to him, all the troubles began. You can endlessly crush this "water in a mortar", or, according to Dale Carnegie, sawdust, which has been in this sawdust state for a long time. This is a vicious circle, into which a person has driven himself, and from which he does not allow himself to get out. You need to distract yourself in any way, switch your thoughts to something else. Even through force.
Step 5
“You just have to go through it” - it's not forbidden to scroll this thought in your head. The world has not stopped during your depression, the Earth is still spinning, factories are working, people are born, fall in love, get married. Either way, you will return to the usual course of events, leaving depression in the past. Reality, if not too resisted, will bring you back to life.
Step 6
Of course, sensuality and libido are usually diminished during depression. But sex (as an instinct for procreation) is one of the main instincts of a person, forcing him to act, so he cannot completely disappear. Just like the instinct to breathe, eat, sleep (we are not talking about the instinct of self-preservation here, because if it is weakened, i.e. a person is visited by thoughts of suicide, then it will not be possible to overcome depression on your own, you need qualified help from a psychiatrist). Sex promotes the production of the body's natural antidepressant, endorphin (the hormone of joy), so making love can help you to slowly get out of depression.
