The main symptoms of depression are apathy, sadness, depression, irritability. Some people often have similar feelings but deal with them successfully. For others, this mood turns into everyday anguish that interferes with enjoying life.
Instructions
Step 1
Build up your strength. Severe fatigue and chronic sleep deprivation can severely ruin your mood. Set aside things that are weighing on you and set aside a few hours for a good rest. Be sure to get enough sleep - go to bed early and make sure that nothing disturbs your sleep. Close the curtains tightly, put on earplugs, and ask your family not to wake you up.
Step 2
Share your experiences with loved ones. Talk about problems, worries, and troubles with friends or family. Express your emotions, don't keep everything to yourself. After a heart-to-heart conversation, you can receive support, advice, or concern.
Step 3
Do not cheat yourself and do not come up with additional difficulties. Depression can only get worse because of your speculation. Make a table, in the first column of which list all the problems at a given point in time, and in the second - the ways to solve them. So you can get rid of the feeling of hopelessness and solve what is tormenting you.
Step 4
Do what you love. If you like reading, embroidering, drawing, be sure to take the time for this. This will help you take your mind off your worries, enjoy the activity and cheer you up.
Step 5
Seek help from a specialist. Sometimes, none of the methods can help you cope with depression on your own. In this case, you cannot give up and plunge into the abyss of despair. Get help from a psychologist. Several sessions will help you look at the situation with different eyes. As a last resort, you will be prescribed a special medication for depression.
Step 6
Do not be discouraged or completely immersed in your experiences. Do not forget that there is a way out of every situation. If all else fails, it seems like the world has turned its back on you and nothing is helping, take a break. Allow yourself to get some rest. Take a vacation or sick leave, travel to another city and just enjoy the moment. If there is no opportunity for travel, just stay at home, watch entertaining films and ride out the black streak in life. When you feel the blues receding, start slowly returning to your daily routine.
