How to deal with depression?

Bad mood, inability to experience pleasure, pessimism and only one desire - to go nowhere and do nothing. These make us depressed. Taking away our strength, it becomes stronger. But what if in this state, the hidden "life preservers" that can help us?

Take his fortune

The first step in dealing with depression can be very acceptance of the fact that you are in this state. psychologists team led by Amanda Shellkross (Amanda Shallcross) from the University of Denver (USA) interviewed 50 women at the time of the study passed through serious trials of life. Respondents identified the level of depressive syndrome, stress and the degree of acceptance of their condition. The series of tests took place at intervals of several months, gave an interesting result. The higher the respondents was the level of recognition of the doldrums, the weaker over time became very depressed.

Inherent to this same state of apathy pulls us into inaction, envelops the desire to get away from the problem and thus unleashes depression hands. Not yielding to this feeling, not letting it go, realizing there is a problem, we are moving in spite of depressed scenario.

Analyze this

Being depressed, we get hung up on any issue or infinitely, obsessively scroll the same situation in my head. On the other hand, are prone to constant "soul-searching" People are much more likely to get depressed. In essence the analytic process, "soul-searching" instead of constructive solutions leads us to self-destruction.

This type of thinking is called rumination. Professor at Yale University (USA), Susan Nolen-Hoeksema describes it as a constant and passive thinking about negative emotions, focusing on the symptoms of depression and anxiety. The thoughts that beset man in such a state, centered around questions such as "When I finally get out of this?" And ideas about the inability to concentrate, feeling unwell. Accordingly, the result of such thinking is even deeper dive into the depression, not the output of it. Other opinion is shared by Paul Andrews (Paul W. Andrews) and Anderson Thomson (J. Anderson Thomson), who in 2009 hypothesized "analytical rumination." Scientists believe that depression is beneficial to our ability to analyze. And she rumination given to man to comprehend their situation and find a way out. The assumption that during the depression in us forcefully wake analytical skills, of course, can cause justifiable doubts.

Referring to his own experience, we are not likely to remember about such laws. But it should not just devalue the possibility as such. After all, if the hypothesis is true, then the depressed person is saving remedy in itself. In favor of the idea of ​​"analytical rumination" and says an experiment in which healthy people and those who were depressed, offered to find the best candidate for a certain position. Affected Depression looking for longer, more carefully, viewed more options, choose a more appropriate one and, accordingly, received more encouragement.

But the heated debate about the legality of such an interpretation is not weakened. For example, the well-known positive psychologist and author of the book «The how of happiness» Sonia Lubomirski (Sonja Lyubomirsky) sees no rumination as such no bright side. A way to exit from depression consider the process of "problem solving" and self-reflection. But fundamentally the nature of both concepts is one - is thinking, analysis and reflection. The depression is important for us to understand yourself and the situation, understand what is happening, and literally pull yourself the power of thought. Analyze the situation required. What should also be our domestic issues?

The right question

Thoughts that we address ourselves, can be divided into two categories. The first - the painful thoughts, sad, we get hung up on the issue. "Why is this happening to me?", "Why me?", "What I done to deserve all this?", "Why I can not overcome the problem?", "Why do I have problems, while in others they do not?". These questions focus on the obstacles we have facing us, forced to look closely to the shortcomings and make our depression stronger.

For structural design solutions should be and the question itself. You need to analyze your personality and thought, why depression has begun. To consider the specific events that led to this state, to reflect on their feelings and feelings at this moment. Many studies show that the treatment of depression in the long run it is more effective the second group of questions. They help to weigh the situation carefully consider it, to find the reasons, and in the future reshenie.Ne "What am I doing wrong?" And "What makes me feel bad?". Self-flagellation or self-pity leave us on the spot, finding the causes opens before us a difficult path of struggle. But it will be a movement of the viscous state of depression, try to overcome it.