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Testing / KY Assessment Department
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Hello everyone, I am a dish in the KY evaluation department.
Last weekend, I finished watching a documentary film launched by CCTV, "How We Fight Depression." As China's first documentary series on a comprehensive interpretation of depression, this film takes a more realistic perspective, documenting what depressed patients think in the Chinese context and the lives they are experiencing.
In the first three episodes of the show, the antidepressant path of three groups of depressed patients is told: teenagers, women and the elderly. These three groups received special attention from the show because in the epidemiological data, they became a high-risk group for depression for a variety of reasons.
So, in this context, my little friend and I couldn't help but start thinking: Why is it that some groups are more likely to have depression or even depression? In addition to the physiological causes, will there be other reasons at play?
Driven by these questions, we have consulted a large number of literature on the causes of depression and found that in addition to the influence of genetic or biological factors, cognitive factors, especially cognitive thinking patterns, that is, how you see the world, your surroundings, and your self in the environment, also play an important role in the production of depression. So today, we're going to talk about the topic of "depressed thinking mode."]
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Your mindset or the cause of your depression
The depressive mindset, in layman's terms, refers to looking at the surrounding environment and self from a negative perspective. Under the influence of such thinking patterns, people will have many manifestations related to depression, such as low mood, depression, increased addictive behavior, suicidal thoughts, avoidance desires and so on. Over time, it can develop into depression or other mental illness.
For example, in an intimate relationship, if your partner doesn't respond to your messages for hours. For the average person, they are able to objectively analyze that their partner does not reply to messages for external reasons (e.g., busy at work, broken phone...). Or internal reasons (e.g., ta is angry...). ) and . If they find out that it is an external cause, then just wait for your partner to reply. If it is an internal reason, they can also actively resolve the problems in the intimate relationship. In contrast, people who adopt a depressed mindset may feel that their partner's untimely response is because "the ta does not love himself", or "the TA is bored with the relationship", which will fall into depressed or depressed emotions, and thus cause some damage to the intimate relationship.
Many people continue to fall into depressed moods or feel a long-term loss of interest or pleasure because they have a long-term tendency to see themselves as incompetent, defective, and useless. At the same time, they also look negatively at their current experiences and what may happen in the future. This stereotyped mindset is especially common in people with depression, such as constant self-blame and self-denial when they encounter difficulties or setbacks.
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How depressed thought patterns affect us
Although depressive thoughts have a big impact on our life experience, in reality, in everyday life, they often manifest themselves as unconscious behaviors that are difficult for the self to perceive.
Combining the negative self schema model proposed by psychologist Beck and the learned helplessness model proposed by Seligman, depressive thinking can be divided into two parts: "latent" and "superficial".
We can compare the depressed mindset to an iceberg in our minds, and the underlying depressive mindset to the subsurface part of the sea. It manifests itself in the deep-rooted values and beliefs buried in our hearts, both our values, how we see the world and the laws of its workings, as well as our perception of our relationships with others and our knowledge of ourselves.
In contrast, [the surface of the depressive thinking] is more like the upper part of the sea level. It manifests itself as our response to negative events in our daily lives, or so-called "first reactions," including how we attribute negative events, how we treat the things themselves, and the depressive emotions that come with them.
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How to understand your own depressive thought patterns
As mentioned earlier, the depressive mindset is difficult to find in daily life, and its impact on our lives is subtle and invisible. So, how do we know if we have a mindset that can easily induce depression?
After a large number of literature reading and summarizing and combing the previous research results, the KY Assessment Department has developed this "depression thinking mode" test to help you self-awareness and self-reflection from a more objective perspective, so that you can lead to the road of happiness in your heart. Through this test, you will get:
1: Your current level of depressed thinking
You'll learn from the test results report whether you have thought patterns that tend to induce depression and how often they occur in your life.
2: Your [underlying] and [superficial] depressive thoughts
As mentioned earlier, depressive thinking can be dissected from two perspectives: "latent" and "superficial." In the results of this test, you will be able to more fully understand the degree and performance of depressed thinking from different perspectives, helping you to avoid the problems caused by depressed thinking in a more targeted manner.
3: Targeted and figurative recommendations
After fully understanding your level and performance of depressive thinking, you can also get suggestions for improvement in different depressive thoughts. To help you better implement these specific recommendations, we also provide specific implementation examples and schematics on the report results page.
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This test is perfect for you if you meet any of the following criteria:
Feel depressed or depressed lately
I feel that I can't be motivated by life, and many things are not interesting
Feel that your own way of thinking/thinking about problems is more negative
Interested in content related to depression
Long press to scan the code to understand your "depressed thinking pattern"
References:
Beck, A. T. (1963). Thinking and depression: I. Idiosyncratic content and cognitive distortions. Archives of general psychiatry, 9(4), 324-333.
Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Morrow, J. (1991). A prospective study of depression and posttraumatic stress symptoms after a natural disaster: the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.Journal of personality and social psychology, 61(1), 115-121.
Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Morrow, J., & Fredrickson, B. L. (1993). Response styles and the duration of episodes of depressed mood. Journal of abnormal psychology, 102(1), 20-28.
Pretz, J.E., 2011. Types of intuition: inferential and holistic. In Handbook of intuition research. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Raidl, M.H. and Lubart, T.I., 2001. An empirical study of intuition and creativity. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 20(3), 217-230.