Clinically speaking, depression is a chronic mental illness with a certain degree of genetic factors. But from a psychological point of view, depression is an emotion that will explode over time if long-term negative emotions, psychological trauma, and heart knots are not resolved in time. From this point of view, it is more in line with the Buddhist ideas.
From the perspective of Buddhist thought, psychological diseases such as depression, anxiety, compulsion, and fear are fundamentally caused by the psychological habits of greed, anger and ignorance. Only by changing this bad psychological habit, depression and other psychological diseases can we be completely cured.
In layman's terms, only the psychological pattern of changing the patient's sensitivity, worry, suspicion, random thoughts, stubbornness, and pursuing perfection has changed. It is no longer as easy to be persistent, entangled, and compare as in the past. When you know how to look at life with a normal mind, the depression will naturally be cured.
The very classic and common method of cultivating the mind in Buddhism is " Vipassana ".
Practicing "inner vision" can remove people's psychological habits, correct people's personality defects, and make people open-minded, accommodating, positive and positive. This is naturally the psychological quality that needs to improve in patients with depression.
From the perspective of Buddhism and psychology, depression
Depression is simply a persistent psychological disorder caused by cognition and emotions. From a Buddhist perspective, all kinds of psychological sufferings of people's emotions, troubles and various psychological sufferings are actually caused by disgust and discrimination. If we cannot feel discriminatory thoughts and feelings about the thoughts and feelings of things and do not make value judgments, there will be no worries and pains.
Suggestions for friends with depression
1. If the symptoms of depression are very serious and cannot bear it yourself, drug treatment is very important . When it is time to take medicine, you should take medicine. Don’t be stubborn and don’t reject medicine. Many times, as long as the medicine is targeted, the symptoms of depression can be quickly improved. As long as the symptoms are stable, we can do things in the future.
2. Practice Vipassana. In the practice of innate practice, the "Breath Contemplation Method" is a very classic practice method. It is practiced by meditation and continuous awareness of breathing in and out, and then cultivate an optimistic, positive and live in the present mentality of "equality".
suggests that you can focus on the two books "Presisting Depression" and "Emotional Self-Save".
3. Reading " Diamond Sutra "
Reciting "Diamond Sutra" is an invisible "psychological massage". When you recite, your heart will become more and more peaceful and more peaceful. For friends with depression, continuous reciting the Diamond Sutra can stabilize the heart and inspire the mind, and effectively stop the emergence of thoughts that cannot be controlled against their will.
In addition, reciting the Diamond Sutra every day can break the fog in front of us, allowing us to clearly see ourselves and the world.
All conditioned phenomena,
is like a dream,
is like a dew and lightning,
should be viewed in this way.
extracts the Diamond Sutra paragraph and encourages them together.
4. Persist in exercise
A large number of scientific studies have confirmed that exercise can help improve mood problems such as depression and anxiety. If aerobic exercise can be maintained as regularly as possible, the effect of improving mood and symptoms is very obvious. Studies have shown that the symptom improvement effect brought by good aerobic exercise even exceeds the effect brought by drugs.
So, what exercises are more suitable for friends with depression to persist for a long time?
For example: jogging, brisk walking, badminton, skipping rope , etc. In short, it is best to exercise outdoors to help improve your physical and mental state.
The recovery of depression is not overnight. It requires long-term and patient inner training and growth. As long as you stick to the right method, I believe you will definitely be able to recover. come on!
