Do you often feel pressure at the end of the year? Experts support to crack the "year-end syndrome"

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Near the Lunar New Year, many people joke that they suffer from "year-end syndrome", feel that the pressure is multiplied, often depressed, and even insomnia, anxiety, depression and other conditions. Experts remind that there is no need to worry too much, and you can respond positively in a healthy way.

Why is there more emo at the end of the year? Stress events focused!

Celebrate the Spring Festival, but often feel suddenly stressed and depressed? "The 'year-end emo' (emotion abbreviation, that is, year-end emotional, year-end depression) that many people joke about is actually a normal psychological stress mechanism, and attention should be paid to regulation, but there is no need to worry too much about increasing anxiety." Jia Fujun, director of the Mental Health Center of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, analyzed that this is related to a specific point in time, most commonly found in urban working people and young parents.

The end of the year is the summary stage of the year, in addition to the pressure of the final summary of the work, there are more social activities such as the annual meeting, and the time schedule is tight, so the stress events are also more concentrated. In addition, the summaries, competitions, awards, training, and when faced with relatives and friends, there are tangible and invisible comparisons in the social community, which will bring pressure to people, especially those who are not good at socializing and have poor coping skills will feel more pressure. These are easy to cause psychological stress, nervousness, insomnia, diarrhea or depression and other conditions.

For young parents, the winter vacation of their children is an "abnormal" situation. This year, due to "double reduction" and epidemic prevention and control, the children's winter vacation model is very different from the past, and parents have to rearrange their children's diet, learning and parent-child activities, facing pressure. In addition, some children have nothing to do and cannot play with children, and the pressure generated by children will also be "contagious" to parents.

Is there a lag in psychological help at the end of the year? Watch out for abnormal sleep!

It is worth noting that due to the approaching end of the year, people are busy preparing for the festival, and second, according to traditional customs, if it is not an acute illness, they should try not to go to the hospital at this time. Coupled with the reasons for epidemic prevention and control, people try to go to the hospital as little as possible, so when they encounter emotional problems at the end of the year, people's enthusiasm for seeking help from psychological clinics will be low, showing a certain lag.

"Therefore, at this time, we should pay more attention to early prevention and timely treatment." Jia Fujun pointed out that sleep is a very important indicator, sleep abnormalities are often many emotional problems and early symptoms of psychological diseases, at this time you can pay special attention to yourself.

"Normally, everyone has a constant amount of sleep. For the average person, putting aside external factors such as alcohol and drinking tea, if there are more than three days of sleep in a week, the sleep time is reduced by more than one hour than usual, and the sleep is not clear, and the next day the spirit is not good, tired and weak, it is necessary to pay attention to it in time and actively adjust the self-state. If you can't adjust yourself for two weeks, you can ask your doctor for help as soon as possible. Jia Fujun reminded, "In general, early awakening is an early sign of depression, while difficulty falling asleep is closely related to anxiety." ”

Three ways to crack the "year-end syndrome"

"In fact, 'year-end syndrome' is not a disease name in the mental health discipline, it is related to a specific point in time, so there is no need to worry too much, and you can actively respond in a healthy way." Jia Fujun said that to crack the "year-end syndrome", there are the following suggestions:

First of all, during the new year's closing period, you can make time planning in advance, give up some "unnecessary socializing", and leave your own time and space. Try to maintain a normal and regular rhythm of life to avoid the impact of lifestyle chaos.

Secondly, for the social pressure that many people currently jokingly call "suffering from social phobia", Jia Fujun said that it is necessary to pay attention to the positive effects of social interaction, try to transform social pressure into a positive social support system, and become a channel for stress relief. "There are two kinds of social networking, passive socialization that you don't like may have a stressful side; but active socializing, such as talking with friends or leisure, is actually a good way to relieve stress, and it also helps to form your own social support system and alleviate emotional problems." Therefore, passive social interaction can be appropriately reduced, active socialization can be increased, or passive socialization can be changed to active socialization.

In addition, proper exercise or half an hour of sun exposure every day can improve sleep and alleviate anxiety, depression and other emotions. People can also adjust their state through self-relaxation training. When it is difficult to self-regulate, you need to ask a professional for help in time. (Text/Reporter Lin Qingqing Intern Lin Shuhan)

Source: Yangcheng Evening News