In an office at Nanjing University's Shenzhen industry-university-research base, the reporter met Yang Feng and his team. Everyone sat down, and Yang Feng made tea on the side. Team members wore uniform white lapel T-shirts with an orange "Be· Shinning", which means shining light, is also the core concept of "one window of warm sun".
Yang Feng, who was born in 1993, has just passed the age of establishment. During the interview, he always asked the team's friends to speak first and say more, and make supplements and summaries by himself, without the domineering and domineering of the founder of the company, on the contrary, with a little shyness and humility. No one would have imagined that such a gentle person would have been depressed three times. "This is also my original intention to start a window of warm sun, I really want to help those who are in depression, confusion and pain, accompany and support them to get out of the dark predicament and find their true selves. Yang Feng said.
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From going on to going on to finding a job, he experienced three times of depression
"You're just too sensitive", these were the words Yang Feng had heard the most, but his real feeling was as if he had been thrown into a fish tank and kept sinking.
The first depressive episode was in the second year of high school, and the changes at home and the pressure of his studies made Yang Feng unable to sleep all night, his body was tense all the time, and he heard all the sounds roaring in his head. He knew that he had to fall asleep because he had an exam tomorrow, but the harder he tried, the more tired he became, and the feeling of exhaustion drained him. In my hometown, no one cares about or discusses the problem of psychological disorders.
In order to survive that stage, Yang Feng cut off contact with his parents and lived in a rented house with a converted basement next to the school. Parents feel sorry for their children, but they don't dare to disturb, and often leave some food at the door and leave silently. For more than a year, it was their only connection.
Leaving the stressor of the family, Yang Feng's sleep state improved, from 4 hours to 2 hours to fall asleep, although the progress was slow, but he was finally able to fall asleep. In addition, he began to read a lot of books on psychology and philosophy, and his survival instinct drove him to tell himself what was going on through books and movies, not to be afraid, and to give himself positive psychological hints.
The second relapse of depression occurred in Shenzhen, and the pressure of the workplace caused him to suffer from severe depression again. I even walked to the window in the middle of the night, and a voice sounded in my head countless times, "Jump down and it's over." However, the courage to fight depression and save himself in high school was always pulling in reverse, reminding him not to give up easily. Yang Feng chose professional psychotherapy, and the psychiatrist suggested that he change to a new environment, so he changed to a new job.
"The change of job, the new environment, and the new colleagues really offset a little bit of the negative emotions. However, if human emotions are compared to a reservoir with an inlet and a drain, then the negative emotions that are offset only solve the problem of drainage and drain some bad things, but do not cure the root cause. Because, negativity is still pouring in from the water intake. Yang Feng, who graduated from Xiamen University and was born in science, made a vivid analogy. Therefore, when the new job can no longer balance the distress caused by emotions, Yang Feng knows that the third depression has come again. This time, he resigned decisively.
▲The first "Depression, We Are Coming" activity organized by One Window Warm Sun.
Love and growth help him tighten the "faucet" of bad emotions
Life is always full of all kinds of surprises, and the law of conservation of energy comes into play at this time. Yang Feng, who was at a low point in his life, met Brother Hui and Mr. Lin (co-founders of One Window Warm Sun). After in-depth contact, they began to accompany Yang Feng with a set of growth practice theories and methods, guide him, and help him relieve anxiety and internal friction. "Mr. Lin found that every major choice in my life was actually taking the initiative to stay away from home, and deep down I was avoiding my family, the place that made me depressed. Yang Feng said frankly. That's right, he was afraid of his original family, and after graduating from high school, he left without looking back, and tried not to go home during the Chinese New Year. For a decade, he had little contact with his parents. "One day, Brother Hui and I shared some ways to live with emotions and stories about getting along with my family, and I was deeply touched and inspired. Later, with their support, I began to try to communicate with my parents. ”
One night, Yang Feng received a call from his father, at the end of the call he burst into tears, the misunderstanding and complaints about the family and parents were finally solved, and the pressure and pain in the bottom of his heart seemed to dissipate at that moment, Yang Feng suddenly realized that his parents had always loved him!
"Remember what I just said about the cistern? It was Love and Growth that helped me tighten the faucet at the inlet. When the negative emotions no longer bubble, I felt a lot calmer, and then, the original negative emotions were also eliminated little by little. When he saw the root cause of the family problem, Yang Feng relearned to get along with his parents and get along with himself who had been injured in those years. He, Brother Hui and Mr. Lin gathered a group of friends and practice partners who supported each other, researched and built a set of empowerment support and healing system for depressed people, and found an ideal career worth fighting for a lifetime.
People-oriented, technology-empowered
"What we want to do is to provide counseling, empowerment and personalized support when you feel depressed and different from your normal emotional state." Mr. Lin, the co-founder, said that the cause of a person's emotional sub-health is not only in the subject, but also in the family, workplace and even the general environment. Starting from the main body, Warm Sunshine helps people with depression face real problems, including the relationship between husband and wife, parent-child in the family, the relationship between leaders, subordinates and employees in the workplace, and the "major relationship" such as career transformation and entrepreneurial development. In the process of dealing with various problems, people-oriented, not only to channel internal psychological problems, but also to empower external affairs to deal with, to help depressed people embark on the growth track of learning and practice, this is the "humanistic" concept mentioned by Yang Feng. So, how is technology blessed?
"Our psychotherapy game has now been developed and it will take some time for it to be fully marketed. It's a functional game, unlike traditional entertaining online games. Functional games should first be satisfied with helping users solve certain problems, and secondly, they should be entertaining. At the same time, it adopts a form of interaction, because depressed people are more sensitive, relatively autistic or lonely, and have greater resistance to contact with the outside world, so the way of playing is easier to eliminate barriers. ”
"Secondly, there is a sand table game to solve psychological problems, and the psychiatrist observes and obtains a lot of subconscious information through the sand table placement. Our interactive games also use this format, and we obtain data for analysis as users make games. Yang Feng introduced.
There are many reasons for a person's depression, and their performance is also different, users need personalized services, and big data and technology make everything possible. "We do a good job of the algorithm, and when we collect enough data, we can make a relatively clear analysis of the user's depression status, severity, and then give feedback and solutions. This is the empowerment of science and technology to humanity in Yang Feng's eyes - gathering resources, solving problems, and improving efficiency at the same time.
In this society, if we can have a more real understanding of depression, we can give more correct care to the real needs of depressed people and their families. Then, this world will always be warm. "A window of warm sunshine is to hope to bring warmth to others and illuminate others with light. That's what we're here for. ”
Yang Feng
Born in 1993, he graduated from Xiamen University with a bachelor's degree and an MBA from Peking University. He used to work in Sangfor and Tencent, and had 3 major depressive episodes in 15 years. He is now the founder of One Window Warm Sun.
Source | Crystal APP
Reporter: Li Min
Editor: Ye Hui