2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
If there is depression, what to do?
1. See a psychiatrist for a diagnosis. If going to a psychiatrist causes persistent resistance, go to a neuropsychiatrist or neuropathologist.
2. There are different types of depression (eg psychogenic, endogenous). The doctor will take this into account when prescribing medications for you.
3. Take treatment seriously and take whatever your doctor prescribes.
In no case, you can not stop taking medications on your own - you will only harm yourself.
4. Do not be disappointed in the prescribed treatment, expecting quick results. Antidepressants do not start working right away - they must accumulate in the body. If you faithfully follow the doctor's instructions, you will still feel better not immediately, but some time after you start taking the medication.
5. Antidepressants are also different. For example, there are antidepressants that activate, and there are those that soothe. You do not know which antidepressants your doctor prescribed and for what purpose. Therefore, do not self-medicate. This is life threatening. Jokes with depression are bad.
6. Antidepressants have to be taken for a long time.
7. It is necessary to go to individual psychotherapy to eliminate the root cause of depression.
* Depression - from lat. depressio - "suppression" *
It is important to find out what exactly you are suppressing.
If situations of loss and grief are the cause of depression, it is important to get over those situations. And in no case should you push difficult experiences into an emotional container until better times.
8. With a psychotherapist you will meet regularly and for a long time 1 time a week for 1 hour.
9. Over time, stop suppressing yourself, your desires and feelings. Learn to rely on yourself, understand your relationship with the environment.
Depression is an insidious and powerful condition. It is difficult to cope with it on your own.
3 main criteria for depression:
1. Decreased mood (mournful facial expressions);
2. The speed of thinking falls;
3. Motor retardation (difficult to perform movements, shuffling gait).
The face of depression:
- No pleasure, nothing pleases, - I don't want anything, - Apathy, no energy, - Sleep disturbance, - Decreased appetite, - Tearfulness, - Loss of body weight, - Everything is seen in a dark light, - Gloomy thoughts, - Feeling of meaninglessness and emptiness, - Narrowing of social contacts (there is no desire and strength to communicate).
What led to depression:
- Against the background of what did you get such a state of mind and body?
- Did something happen in your life: loss, parting, betrayal?
- What severe stress tormented you lately?
- What has changed in life?
- Has an event severely disrupted your life?
- How do you explain to yourself why you have such a state?
After defeating depression, you will perk up: thoughts will become different, self-esteem will grow, perception of reality will change. You will start enjoying life!
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