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In recent years, "home culture" has gradually become popular in the city, and the network environment has also provided the possibility of long-term stay-at-home, and some liberal workers can completely communicate and communicate with the outside world through mobile phones or computers, and obtain normal demand and income.
But staying at home isn't actually a healthy way to live, and a neurological Sciences study called the "groundhog day effect" tells us that it's easy to be stupid if one stays in an environment for too long.
The study, conducted by researchers from the University of New South Wales, surveyed 4,175 people who had been forced to stay at home due to COVID-19 and found that after a long period of isolation, their mental health and cognitive abilities were on the decline, even on the verge of depression.
Of the 4175 people forced into quarantine, more than 70 percent of participants experienced negative emotions such as boredom, depression, and fear of being infected.
30% of university participants had cognitive problems during stay-at-home isolation, manifesting as poor memory, or inability to concentrate and prolonged periods of unconscious emptiness.
Researchers believe that being in the same monotonous environment for a long time is the main cause of negative psychological and cognitive problems. Because the environment helps us retrieve memories, stimulate the brain, and promote the internal operation of the body, when you stay in an environment every day, the brain will have a hard time distinguishing these memories, and in a state of chaos, cognitive ability will naturally decline.
At the same time, long-term stay-at-home social activities will also increase the probability of depression, Royal Academy of Sciences psychiatrists have conducted a survey of more than 40,000 Norwegian volunteers and finally found:
Those who regularly participate in outdoor activities, regardless of the amount of exercise, as long as they participate in outdoor activities, their risk of depression is significantly less than those who refuse social activities at home for a long time.
The study also found that people who stay at home for a long time are 1-2 times more likely to suffer from depression than the average person. In short, the conclusion is that "extreme stay-at-home" is a way of life that hastens the way of life that hastened human beings to death.
In fact, "home" itself has no antagonistic relationship with death, for some people with excessive social activities, a moderate "home" will help them restore their physical and mental balance.
But anything is too late, human beings are a group species, and even introverts need to participate in social activities to ensure their own survival and physical, mental and spiritual health.
If there is no group, the vast universe will instantly drown the individual, as strong as "Robinson" still needs the company of "Friday", and it is a living person, so don't let yourself fall into the long-term "house".
If it is because of force majeure factors such as the epidemic, it is also necessary to try to find things to communicate with others and stimulate the nerves of the brain to do to ensure the normal circulation of their internal systems.
At present, in addition to the people who are forced to stay at home because of objective factors such as the epidemic and work, there are also some people who have taken the initiative to choose a home, and such people usually have insufficient social skills, a lonely personality, and it is difficult to survive in society.
For example, 28-year-old Xiao Xiao, his education level is not high, can only do some physical work, after the first two years of unemployment, he chose to stay at home to rest, even if he knows that since then the family is no longer willing to go out, and during this period he is addicted to the Internet, all day with computer games.
Because the game is played well, he can earn a little pocket money by "selling equipment", his income is only enough to survive, often with ups and downs, but even so, he is still reluctant to go out and find a job.
He played games day and night, was reluctant to talk to people, and his health deteriorated. He felt that in the game, he could find the dignity of being a human being and the value of his existence, so even if he knew that this was not a long-term solution, he would rather indulge in it than wake up.
This kind of person is distributed all over the world, Japan calls it "Higuyazu", China calls it "otaku", and their common denominator is to stay at home and not go out, escaping from reality.
Because the social value is not high and it is difficult to participate in social activities, so avoid social activities, and society is developing, the more you escape, the more you can't adapt to society, and then enter a vicious circle, and eventually people will become stupid and stupid.
In fact, as a learned species, social skills are not innate, and we need to slowly accumulate them by participating in a large number of social activities. "To know a tree, go to the tree."
If you want to have social value, you must actually participate in social activities, not stay at home.
There will definitely be some difficulties in the beginning, but you have to learn to overcome these difficulties, the equivalent change leads to the qualitative change, and you will find that social activities are not so difficult.
The secret of this is not to go to extremes, do not encounter a little setback, they will reject contact with the outside world, people want to live happily, not to let the world around them turn with their own will, but to train themselves to adapt to a variety of environments.
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参考资料：Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2018). Beautiful mess effect: Self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Journal of personality and social psychology, 115(2), 192-205