When a person falls into melancholy and despondency, he ceases to be interested in what is happening around him, he fences himself off from others with an invisible shield, tries to calm the blues with alcohol, withdraws into himself and does a lot of things that are harmful to his mental health (however, for physical health too, since everything is very closely related). Meanwhile, there is only one correct solution to this problem - to overcome depression and melancholy. There are several time-tested methods.
Instructions
Step 1
Cheer up and stop sinking into a state of melancholy and despondency, even with an incredible effort of will. Stop seeing the positive moments in the role of a kind of melancholic who has everything bad in life (everyone regrets, sympathizes, consoles - believe me, few people do it sincerely, rather, everyone has long been tired of your dull depressive appearance). Find courage in yourself and look at yourself from the outside: is it really you - a once-cheerful little man with a twinkle in your eyes, next to whom everyone felt happier to live, looking at whom you wanted to breathe deeply, create beautiful things and love the whole world. Don't you want to be like that again and emit light, not longing?
Step 2
Learn about the "Globe Principle" and apply it to yourself (it's not fatal). Take your mind off the ground and soar into the clouds. Higher, higher. Already the planet from the height of your flight looks like a multi-colored ball, like a beautiful ball, like a globe. And where is that continent on it where you live? That country? That city? Finally, a street and a house? And somewhere there is you. With my despondency and longing. Oh, you can't see the house, street, city? And even the country is not very clear? And even more so, I can't see you with your blues. So is it really there? And does it really matter so much on the scale of the Universe? Think about it. Psychologists say that after such a "flight" the joy of being returns to the person, and the longing goes away.
Step 3
Try to make a list of the top reasons why you feel discouraged. If there are several lines, start honestly analyzing each - whether this really caused the melancholy. It is quite possible that a lot will turn out to be far-fetched. Even more often, psychologists say, a person cannot find the cause of his blues at all when he starts looking for it (it is possible that this is not despondency at all, but simply a bad mood, inspired by a boring autumn rain or a long wait for a phone call). Not finding a global and weighty reason that gave rise to despondency, a person is terribly surprised, then shakes himself up, as if after a dream, and then enters the usual rhythm of life, forgetting about melancholy.
Step 4
Watch a comedy. Choose what you like best - classic Russian films or Hollywood (French, Italian) films. Best of all, if you go to a comedy at the cinema - collective laughter infects, its positive effects are more powerful than laughter alone.
Step 5
Give yourself a shake-up. It is better if at this moment no one is at home. Turn on bravura music and perform the dance of a maddened camel (crocodile, mammoth, grasshopper). Jump, grimace, throw out intricate knees, make a variety of sounds. Feel free to yourself. This is called letting off steam. Dance to the point of exhaustion, to the feeling of fatigue (as if a carriage with coal was unloaded). Often after such therapy, a person cries, let your tears not frighten you - this is also part of the ritual, after such a cry it becomes easier to breathe, and the soul experiences a pleasant weightlessness. What about despondency? It evaporates like morning mist.
Step 6
Let off steam - it's time to look around. And there - life goes on. And there are so many interesting and surprising things in it. Maybe you should travel? Or arrange a meeting of friends (home party, bachelorette party, date)? Or just remember that you haven’t bought any updates for a long time and go to the store? Well, you can come up with something that does not require large financial costs - an outing into nature, to the gym, to the bathhouse, finally. Allow yourself to relax and enjoy life.
