Regarding the solution to depression and anxiety, give you a visual example to understand

Question: I am really seriously anxious, I don't want to take medicine, because I read the Internet to say that taking medicine will be sluggish again, memory decline, I think I need memory very much, right?

Teacher: If you have a medical history of about two or three years, it may be a chronic anxiety, and this kind of panic and chest tightness that you have recently appeared, ah, feels very uncomfortable, ah, in fact, it is an acute anxiety attack based on chronic anxiety. So overall, in fact, this anxiety is very serious, anxiety is a common disease, like a cold, but you are now, like a heavy cold, immediately developed to the most serious extent.

So, first of all, you have to realize that this is a disease. Second, the condition is to be treated. There are many methods of treatment, medication, physical therapy, psychotherapy. Medication can relieve your symptoms relatively quickly, and medication first makes you feel better and relaxes you. Psychotherapy requires a cycle.

Regarding medication and psychotherapy, an analogy can be made. In our daily lives, one of the most common things in life is to boil hot water. Then the depressive state is very similar to the pot of hot water that we burn in our symptoms, as the time of boiling water becomes longer, the water temperature gradually rises, which is similar to our usual depression has been accumulating, and our depressed state has become more and more obvious. When the water temperature burns to a certain extent, the water will boil, and our depression will erupt at this time.

So how can this boiling water be calmed again? In fact, it is very simple, there are no more than two ways, the first is to add some cold water to the pot, so that the water temperature is temporarily reduced, which is similar to the hospital prescribing drugs, through the drug to temporarily control the body's indicators. The second way is to reduce the fire of boiling water, or even turn off the source of the fire, which is similar to psychotherapy, which fundamentally solves the cause of depression and thus prevents depression from recurring.

After reading this example, we know that psychological counseling for the treatment of depression is very necessary, because we not only treat the symptoms, but also treat the root causes, psychological counseling is not to give us a temporary listening and companionship, more importantly, to let us learn how to deal with our emotions and correctly look at all problems.