In addition to being affected by major events, depression is more of an outbreak after the accumulation of long-term negative emotions. People with depression need to remember one word in their daily lives: less.
1. Be less persistent
Whether a person's personality is cheerful and outgoing or shy and introverted, there will be a paranoid part. Excessive attachment is an unhealthy psychological manifestation that constantly causes negative emotions. When these emotions cannot be resolved in a timely and reasonable manner, emotions will accumulate and generalize. Psychological problems such as depression often arise with this accumulation and generalization.
The less attached a person is, the healthier their mind will be, and the more they will stay away from depression.
Therefore, in our daily life, we should be more aware of our minds, practice reducing this attachment, and slowly correct our mental patterns.
Second, less closed
You may be depressed and don't feel like you want to move at all and don't want to be in contact with people, but this can make you even more depressed. As far as you can afford, it is still advisable to get yourself moving. Closing yourself off will only exacerbate your depression and make it sink deeper and deeper.
When you do it, you don't have too much energy to think about it, and it will also reduce your experience of depression and help you slowly get out of it.
3. Surf the Internet less
Many people with depression will find sympathetic patients to support each other on the Internet, which may give them some comfort, but in fact, the support of fellow depressed patients is very limited. Sometimes there are even some unnecessary troubles after comparison. For example, seeing that others have improved in some way, but you have not made any progress at all, it will add a burden to your already fragile heart.
Fourth, less fantasy
Friends with depression are more likely to indulge in fantasies than normal people. I often lie in bed thinking about life, but it is difficult to get up and do a trivial thing.
Less fantasies, more practice. Anything that seems to you to be in a good mood is worth taking immediate action.
If traveling can bring you joy, then go.
It's worth emphasizing that whatever you do, don't be too purposeful. For example, when you go on a trip, there is only one purpose to cure depression, which can easily lead to you always paying attention to whether your mood has improved, and it is difficult to immerse yourself in the current experience and let yourself fall into new entanglements.
(I recommend depressed friends to read the two books "Depression Check-in Self-Help" and "Emotional Self-Help", I believe that the exercises in the book will be very helpful for you to get out of depression.) ）
Fifth, less control
I often hear patients with depression say that when they see the characteristics of depression in books or videos, they will compare them one by one, find that they are all in it, and then feel more depressed.
When we are emotionally sensitive, try not to label ourselves. Block out some sources of information that make you more anxious and depressed, and create an environment suitable for recovery.
Sixth, less pondering
Less thinking about things in life that are beyond your ability, especially if you are depressed. Frequent pondering and pondering can easily lead to increased psychological pressure and increase the probability of depression. Live in the present every day, experience the joy and fullness of the present, and do not grieve for the past or worry about the future. We need to constantly change this heart that is prone to emotions and accumulate emotions, and change this unhealthy mental pattern.
Let yourself always maintain a "less" mentality, put aside complex emotions, and be happy with yourself.