In today's world, the questions "How to get out of depression?", "How to overcome depression?", "How to deal with depression?" are very sharp. Indeed, depression, as a disease, in many respects remains a complex and unclear phenomenon, there are more than a dozen of its varieties, and the course of the disease is extremely individual. However, general recommendations on how to overcome depression are available. And if they are followed, then there is a high probability of quickly returning to a full life full of joys and pleasures.
Instruction manual
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Sometimes it’s enough to get out of the house for a few days, when the depressed state begins to weaken and recede. When visiting new places (yes, even old ones, where I haven’t been for a long time), a person inevitably gets certain impressions and emotions that act as a distraction. In addition, on any trip, it can not do without communicating with different people, this does not allow itself to become isolated.
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Not for nothing in all ages, doctors talked about sleep, as the best medicine. Insomnia often accompanies depression, so you need to take measures to establish a healthy sleep. To do this, go to bed in complete silence, in a well-ventilated room. If necessary, you can take a weak sleeping pill or drink herbal soothing tea at night (the composition should include valerian root, motherwort, lemon balm, peony and lavender flowers).
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Let humor come into your life and soon you will notice that interest in life awakens, and the oppressed state is replaced by a desire to live and love. Watch comedies, concerts of famous comedians, listen to records of contagious laughter - your being will become much brighter and more positive.
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Do not delve into your experiences. It is common for a person in a depressed state to scroll through negative thoughts thousands of times in his head, to return again and again to the point from which, it seems to him, all the troubles began. Pounding this “water in a mortar”, or, according to Dale Carnegie, sawing up sawdust, which in this sawdust state is a long time ago, can be endless. This is a vicious circle in which a man drove himself, and from which he does not allow himself to leave. You need to be distracted in any way, switch your thoughts to another. Even through power.
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“You just have to survive it” - this idea is not forbidden to scroll through the head. The world did not stop during your depression, the Earth is still spinning, factories are working, people are being born, falling in love, getting married. One way or another, you will return to the usual course of events, leaving depression in the past. Reality, if not particularly resisted, will bring you back to life.
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Of course, sensuality and libido during depression are usually weakened. But after all, sex (as an instinct of procreation) is one of the main human instincts that force one to act, therefore, at all, he certainly cannot disappear. As well as the instinct to breathe, eat, sleep (we don’t talk about the instinct of self-preservation, because if it is weakened, i.e. a person is visited by thoughts of suicide, then it will not work out to overcome depression, qualified psychiatrist help is needed). Sex contributes to the production of a natural antidepressant in the body - endorphin (the hormone of joy), so when you make love, you slowly get out of depression.
note
Before you begin to fight depression on your own, check your condition on the Sheehan scale. Perhaps your depressive state is so neglected that you cannot do without the help of a specialist.
Useful advice
During a depression, do not make major and global decisions (divorce, abortion, job or residence). Your psyche is broken, and the decisions made can be rash, hasty, which then you will have to greatly regret.
Psychologists also recommend:
- sit in the park and just watch life;
- contemplate the night starry sky;
- swing on the waves (sea, river, basin);
- light candles and sit in silence;
- periodically take a deep breath and prolonged exhalation;
- make a foot massage;
- take a walk in the warm rain;
- perform dirty dances naked to bravura music;
- laugh out loud and full (you can start through force).
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