Depression is a serious condition in which a person loses mutual understanding both with himself and with the outside world. The fight against depression should consist not only in defeating the negative aspects of this mental illness, but also in finding inner harmony. You need to learn to listen again and understand yourself.
Depression treatment
Antidepressants are great help in combating this ailment, but medication alone is not enough. It is due to the lack of additional methods of struggle that a considerable percentage of people experience relapses after drug withdrawal.
Psychotherapists recommend several additional remedies:
- go in for sports.
It has been proven that endorphins, natural hormones of joy, are released in the brain during exercise. In a number of cases, regular exercise can completely replace antidepressants.
- chat with friends.
Warm communication with those who are dear to you can bring back the joy of life. People are social creatures, often the lack of communication in itself becomes the cause of depression.
- try alternative methods such as aroma, color and light therapy, various breathing exercises, massage. Everyone perceives the world in their own way, and for women, cognition of the surrounding space through sensations does quite intensively. For some, smells are able to restore harmony, and for some, the breath of yogis will help.
If you are wondering how to overcome the autumn depression, then there is a ready-made solution: spend more time in the sun. The problem lies in the banal lack of vitamin D, which is produced in the human body when exposed to sunlight.
Do not forget to be examined by an endocrinologist: often the cause of depression is hormonal imbalance or other somatic disorders.
How to overcome pessimism
Negative thinking and lack of desire to do anything will prevent you from returning inner harmony. Therefore, you need to fight them! Pessimism - the tendency to evaluate everything that happens in a negative way - leads to the fact that the brain stops producing substances that are responsible for feelings of happiness or satisfaction. Therefore, you should begin to consciously control your thoughts. Just ruthlessly remove all negative thoughts from your head: forbid yourself to think bad.
Set goals, do something. Let the goals be very close and easy to achieve at first. Make lists, and if you have big tasks ahead of you, chunk them up until they turn into a few small and easy tasks. So you can achieve some results, which will inevitably give you strength and allow you to overcome apathy and pessimism.
Laugh in the morning every day. Try this exercise: When you wake up, consciously start laughing. It won't work at first, and you might feel stupid because there is no reason for fun. But there is a task: to laugh. In a minute, you will forget about the absence of reasons and start laughing for real. A few minutes of laughter will create a good mood for you, which will last longer every day.
