The recent Microblogs and circle of friends have been almost occupied by not very good news. Seeing these frustrating news, you will find that individual disasters are happening all the time.
While feeling anxious and sad about the situation of others, I also worry that I may face the same difficulties one day, and the whole person will inevitably become anxious. But still can't control the brushing, the more you brush the more anxious, while anxious while continuing to brush, into a dead cycle.
Before, because of the "how to look at the bad news, how to live with the bad news", I had a fight with my boyfriend. He sent him some news to discuss, and he said he didn't pay much attention and expressed that he didn't want to pay much attention.
I angrily asked him why not pay attention.
His answer was "What about paying attention, I can't change anything, only because of my own incompetence."
My view at the time was that things exist objectively and don't happen because you don't pay attention. Pretending to be invisible seems to me nothing more than a manifestation of covering one's ears and ringing the bell, and a selfish mentality without empathy.
But in fact, human psychological endurance is very limited. When I receive enough bad information, my emotions will also be on the verge of being in sync, and I am not in the mood to do anything, which affects my life and work.
Try to do what you can, find that it is difficult to solve the problem, can not make things better, and will eventually be surrounded by a huge sense of powerlessness.
Especially recently, as the situation has become more and more serious, this mentality has reached its peak, and as soon as I lie in bed in the middle of the night, I begin to feel uncomfortable, accompanied by the physiological reaction of poor breathing and dull heart pain, I realized that bad emotions accumulate to a certain extent, which will bring real discomfort to the body.
While the Internet has made it easier to spread information, it will now cause people to have some psychological problems because of information overload.
There is a term in psychology called "political depression," which is not just a metaphorical symptom, it is in line with the American Psychological Association's (APA) criteria for depression.
When I looked up the data, I saw an article that said that a study in the United States found that adolescents who browsed social media for more than three hours a day had a 60% higher risk of psychological problems with anxiety and depression than others. This kind of depression may contain political depression.
"The manifestation of political depression is the feeling that you have lost control of your destiny. Most of the time, there is a constant feeling of irritability or depression, with sad, empty, or hopeless thoughts and feelings. ”
What I want to say is that this is not pretentious, not unfounded, and it is not a blind worry as a spectator. This is quite normal, an emotion that everyone with empathy will produce.
Maybe everyone has a variety of different levels and degrees of pain at the moment, but in many events, what we can do is too limited, everyone and everything to empathize is empathetic, frequent browsing of information will only add pain.
In my experience, when emotionally unstable, the best thing to do is to cut off most of the sources of information. Being an ostrich for a while and a half is no big deal, and although it is shameful to escape, it is not necessary because bad news affects your mental health.
Temporarily cut off your connection to the world, get out of the current environment, go out and do something else, and find the feeling of being stimulated by other things.
Everyone has their own channels to get energy, take the spicy for example, if you often look at her Weibo friends will find that she has recently been addicted to rock climbing, soaked in the rock museum after work, and also went to wild climbing with friends on weekends, she said that she began to fall in love with rock climbing because the Internet is too painful.
She herself is a person who is afraid of heights, before walking the overpass to look down will have a rapid heartbeat, she said that the adrenaline surge in the process of climbing up will briefly forget those bad things, and the endorphins produced by the body after exercise will also make people happy.
A good way to alleviate anxiety is to pay attention to something completely unrelated, some friends around you are unhappy to go to Taobao, read the Little Red Book, or brush vibrato to see handsome men and beautiful women, through beautiful things and beautiful faces to get a little energy, superficial but happy.
There are also friends who have recently chosen to fold group chats, close the circle of friends, try not to look at mobile phones, and read paper books at home. Holding furry little animals, talking to plants, and even talking to yourself will be cured.
The weather is now very suitable for going out for a walk and walking slowly, and a person will be much better after eating and walking around the wind.
The friend has also recently become obsessed with watching landscape documentaries and travel vlogs, pretending to be traveling in the clouds. Listening to podcasts is also a good choice, doing exercise or tidying up the room when you leave it, it's easy to enter the world they talk about, and time will pass quickly.
For me, the mood deterioration will rely on some nipple music to evacuate the mood, watch funny variety shows or brainless sweet dramas, play games, hide in the spiritual peach blossom garden to recover a little, and wait until the blood is full.
Of course, we should not turn a blind eye to the bad news, the above is not to say that we should not pay attention to it, stop speaking, but do not be overly anxious, and it is also a kind of consumption to be occupied by them all the time.
Pay more attention to yourself, eat well, go to bed on time, and work hard. Exercise and stay in a good mood. Only by living your own life and maintaining good inner order can you help others.
Illustration / "A Beautiful World"
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