It is worthy of recognition that in the necessary stage of depression attack, drug intervention is needed and can play a role in alleviation and control, but to achieve real cure, psychological intervention is ultimately required. If you only rely on drugs to treat depression, you will often become more dependent on drugs in the end. Even if you take more and more drugs, your mood will become more and more fragile.
Psychologist Teacher Li Hongfu said in the book "Beat Depression" that the only way to completely cure depression is to change the patient's psychological model (thought model). Otherwise, it will just be "treating the head and feet to treat the headache," and treating the symptoms but not the root cause. As the saying goes: "Heart disease must be treated with heart medicine."
Depression does not happen for no reason. Maybe it seems to you that it is caused by external factors, but fundamentally speaking, your wrong outlook on life and bad mentality are the essence of depression.
In the various external events that you think of, whether it is a setback in your career, a strained relationship, a breakdown in your family, some kind of illness, or the death of a loved one.
On the surface, these factors will indeed cause some emotional distress to people, but these factors are only an indication factor, or a predisposing factor. Therefore, only changing the mentality and changing the bad way of thinking in the past is the fundamental cure for depression.
So, how to change the bad mentality of the past and get out of depression? The following four suggestions are given to patients with depression:
1. Continuously practice the mindfulness "breathing method". The method can be said to be the solution to neurosis such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc. It is very important. The practice is not difficult, just sit quietly and observe (concentrate) the breathing in and out of the nostrils, and stop all thinking and judgment. For the specific exercises and theories of , patients can refer to the book "Overcoming Depression".
2. Stop judging and focus on the present. Don't try to figure it out and solve your doubts and troubles through thinking. Keep in mind that your knots and anxieties cannot be solved through thinking and analysis. The more you think, the more anxious and depressed you will become. This will only make you dig deeper and fall into a vicious circle. The more you can't figure it out, the more you will think about it, and the more you think about it, the more you will be unable to figure it out. So stop thinking and judging, and focus on the present moment, and many problems will be solved naturally.
3. Let nature take its course and do as you should. The book "Emotional Self-Healing" mentions that you should not think about how to eliminate symptoms all day long, nor should you expect that the symptoms will disappear at all and then live a good life.
What we have to do is "live with the symptoms". Study when you need to study, go to work when you need to work, play when you need to play, in short, live how you want to live. Try to arrange your life to be fulfilling and happy. In this state, things will get better unknowingly, and life will get better and better.
4. Exercise is the most natural healing method. The movement has been scientifically proven to be effective in improving physical and mental diseases such as depression, but it is often ignored by people. Studies have shown that once-a-day aerobic exercise is even more effective than many antidepressant treatments.
In essence, antidepressants can only relieve symptoms quickly, but are not a cure for depression. The body and mind are integrated and interact with each other. If you exercise for one hour every day, it can not only improve your physical condition, but also make your mental outlook healthier. In the recovery of depression, the effect is very obvious.
Therefore, exercise is very important and indispensable for the recovery of depression. If you do the above four things, I believe you will recover from depression.
