Can a person be seriously depressed and still help themselves?

If one is severely depressed, the first thing to do is to find a way to ask for help, to ask for help from professionals (psychologists or psychiatrists), and to seek understanding and support from family and friends.

I can understand the despair, helplessness, and lack of understanding that people with major depression feel. Because I was once. Because I had an anxiety disorder and counseling, when I became ill again, the first thing I thought of was to seek help from a professional.

At the time, I didn't realize that my condition was no longer just anxiety, but also symptoms of mania. When I went to the hospital, I just told the doctor that I had a relapse of anxiety, and then the doctor prescribed me anti-anxiety medication straight away.

But in fact, what I should have done was to take a detailed psychological test first (unfortunately, my doctor didn't advise me to do so).

Then, after three months of being home and shut in, and taking medication with all the frequent side effects, I finally realized that I didn't seem to be able to hold out much longer. I asked a friend to go to the mental health center with me, and then did a detailed psychological test, only to find out that it was already major depression. (I'm depressive manic bipolar affective disorder).

Then almost everyone couldn't understand what was happening to me, why the extreme self denial, why I wouldn't go out and go to work and meet people.

Because of the strained relationship with my mother, I also never asked for help from my family because I knew that asking for help would only cause more harm.

Finally, I was forced out of my room. This is thanks to Papa Ma Yun and Papa Ma Huateng, whose loans forced me to go out and work in the lowest, hardest labor positions.

Although my depression isn't good, and my moods come and go, at least I'm starting to try to get out. I can, and I believe you can too. I don't want to say cheering and encouraging words, because what depressed people hate the most is cheering, ah, encouragement.

Finally, I would like to say: don't give up on yourself, if you help yourself, God will help you.

Of course.

First of all, we need to know what is depression? Why does depression occur?

We all know that depression is a mental illness. We usually refer to a lot of negative energy, constantly doubting yourself, and a lot of stress.

So why does depression occur?

1, the factor of the gene: there are some people who are depressed because there is a gene in his body that can cause us to produce depression, and this gene is from our parents.

2, the cultural environment of the factors: we are in the environment is more depressing, or stress, then we will be prone to depression. So what is the physiological factor here?

In fact, the main thing is that when we are under a lot of stress, we will produce adrenaline, this adrenaline will make us produce cortisol, and this cortisol will make us produce some emotional or physiological reactions. So it can make us depressed, our body can become poor and so on.

So if we want to address depression, then what we're going to address is lowering cortisol levels. And of course that means addressing it from both the external and internal parts.

First of all, externally we each have to control our diet and sleep.

But more importantly, we need to control our stress, because stress is an important factor in the production of cortisol. So how do you control stress? This one involves stress management.

Stress management is very important to express emotions, because a lot of stress to build up and can not be released, which produces too much cortisol, so let us get depressed.

So it is important to carry out the mood and release, but many people may know that they should release the pressure, but a lot of people can not release the pressure and what is the reason?

It's not realizing and being stuck in a negative cycle. Not realizing is that we don't think we're depressed in this state, we think it's normal, and that's a cognitive bias.

The second thing is that we're stressed because we're busy, and then being stressed might make things worse, so we get busier. Then we don't have time for stress at all.

So a very important step is to be aware of your stress and the negative emotions that come up because of it.

You can talk to a friend on a regular basis about where you are and what's going on.

The next question you can ask yourself is what are my emotions right now, am I stuck in a negative emotion? Be sure to try to ask yourself such a question, in fact, you ask such a question, you are jumping out of your original emotions.

It turns out that you can't form this kind of consciousness because you don't ask yourself often enough or don't expose yourself to the relevant content often enough. If you kinda get to a point every day where someone says you need to be aware of your emotions and you need to reflect every day on what your emotions are like within that day, you're slowly going to form that awareness and allow yourself to look at yourself outside of your own emotions.

That's how I got here. Whenever I have a setback and I have a negative emotion, I can recognize it and ask myself if I'm stuck in a negative emotion again, why am I stuck, and how do I get out of it? So that you can slowly take control of your emotions? It's a little bit of a step-by-step process.

The so-called "major depression", in addition to the depression of the common low mood, upset, nonsense, reduced mental capacity, learning work efficiency, but also the following characteristics:

1. serious self-blame or even self-criminalization;

2. refusal and avoidance of all Interpersonal interactions;

3. Pessimism, accompanied by serious suicidal ideation and even suicidal behavior;

4. Often refusing to seek medical treatment because of a lack of confidence in their own illness.

Once this happens, it is very dangerous, and the most terrible consequence is suicide!

Clinically, many successful cases of suicide mostly belong to this situation.

So, it is almost impossible to talk about making a severely depressed patient "help himself"!

This requires that people around the patient, especially family members, pay close attention to the patient's condition:

Once the patient showed the idea of suicide or suicide attempts must be "mandatory" to send the patient to the hospital in a timely manner.

Because people who have committed suicide have a high likelihood of committing suicide a second time, and the success rate is very high.

This is the only way to avoid a tragedy!

1, disease of the mind. Major depression is mostly due to long-term psychological pressure to form a personality mindset, which contains, life, family, career, marriage, the environment and so on the more complex causes that the impact of their own psychological formation of a mental disorder.

2. Behavioral diseases. Behavior refers to the wrong way of behavior, the wrong cause produces the wrong fruit, the wrong idea produces the wrong behavior, the wrong behavior into the wrong result, this, can not see and touch the lesion is difficult to make people believe. But it is true that there is everyone's side.

3. People with severe depression, it is difficult to break through their own psychology, often dominated by an uncontrollable external force, is not easy to rely on their own ability to change and break through. The people with severe depression care about every word of others, even every look, and hope is more understanding, and other people's care for themselves. Family members and loved ones should be more understanding and care, never stimulate and hurt their desperate heart.

4. People with severe depression should always cultivate the improvement of positive thinking and learning. Only a true change of heart, raise the right consciousness within. Let go of all the hatred in your heart. Resentment. Cultivate inner compassion and great love, learn traditional culture and morality

Cultivate, filial piety and parents, do good deeds and virtue, is the root of the good disease.

5. Depression is a major problem in the world, but there is no such thing as a terminal illness in this world, and those who are suffering from terminal illnesses have not encountered the right way to do it, so I can only say that they are all destiny. The right person, the right edge, the right method, virtues and good deeds, admit mistakes and change, filial piety, change the nature of the heart, enhance the positive idea, you really do, the disease of self-healing, if you do not believe that no one can do anything, because the great love of the cure for all diseases.

Self-help is very important, actively go to the hospital psychiatry, follow the doctor's instructions to take medication, or consciously to socialize, go to sports, to do their own feel happy, this is "self-help". Self-help also means recognizing that you are sick, not resisting it, treating it well, accepting it, and having faith in it.

What I mean by self-help is to accept the illness behaviorally and psychologically, and then to treat it in various ways.

There is no way to cure major depression if you just rely on your own will alone, because the disease is already physical, not psychological. In the brain of a person with major depression, there is a neurotransmitter secretion of too little, which is not controlled by the human spirit and will. Just like menopausal women, if the estrogen secretion is too little, it can only be regulated by drugs. It's not that you can just think about it and be strong.

Don't save yourself, don't save yourself, don't save yourself.

Most people are not professionals so-called major depression many people have their own views, which will make part of the suicidal tendency of people lost the opportunity to rescue.

There are also a lot of people who say that depression is a sign of physical illness, hypothyroidism, hypoadrenalism, and some people even have brain tumors. In this case, if you help yourself, you actually lose the opportunity to be treated.

The formal approach is to find a doctor to determine the diagnosis, if it really has nothing to do with the endocrine, the brain, consider the mental illness, do formal treatment, and then self-help.

The biggest enemy in life is yourself, and to defeat the enemy, you must first defeat yourself. Suffering from major depression, the key to rely on yourself. There is food and drink, pulling the urine normal, do not say that there is still can not get through, can not think of things? I don't need to go into detail. Look at grandparents, grandparents, grandparents, even involving the father or mother, these have born you, raise you, love you, love you, give you money to spend, for you to go to college, get married, pay the down payment, to help you pay off the mortgage in advance, to give you laundry and cooking to look after the children, to take the bank card for the retirement fund is also given to you, because of the fear of paying the inheritance tax, and even the name of the deed to the property has been changed to your name. If you still don't know what to do and are still depressed, then it is really hard for others to understand. What I have listed above are patients suffering from depression in the middle and young ages. As for the elderly suffering from this disease, I can only say, good luck.

I was once depressed, that is, after a few years of divorce and remarriage, think about it is the selfishness of the performance led to depression, if you let go of everything, do not pay attention to the gains and losses, do not pay attention to how other people evaluate, do not live in the framework of other people, break through their own thought confinement, what the depression will be solved.

You can try meditation! Stress comes from the burden of thought, that is, too much delusion, meditation is a yoga practice of meditation, but now is misunderstood by many people, thinking that meditation is a thought activity, any thought activity is a delusion, the more you think of the heart more impure, so some people sit down the more meditation more trouble, but with the purpose of meditation against the wishes of the fact that to meditate is to control the thoughts of the mind, the fewer the thoughts of the mind, the more quiet, the stress is a matter of mind, the heart is the more quiet. Stress is in the heart of the matter, the heart is quiet, natural pressure, even if it is a short period of calm, but also a short period of relaxation and rest I'm not, do not dare to make their own opinion, the highest state of meditation is to enter the fixed, so to give you a recommended reference (because it is not a formal practice of Buddhism, so can only be counted as a reference, can be one ten thousandth of the essence of the great benefit) a simple and easy to learn Buddhist method of entry, the root of the ear to pass the method, from the listening to sound Start to achieve the purpose of meditation, the purpose is not to learn into the fixed, after all, into the fixed is not the average person can do, but used to meditate is to kill the chicken with a bull's-eye, the effect is immediately visible, long practice natural purification of the mind Simply put, it can be referred to as the "smell sound method", **** divided into four steps: First, concentrate on the idea of listening to the sound of all sounds, do not choose, do not separate, from large to small, from near to small, from near to near to small. From big to small, from near to far, not to listen to the root of the ear, is to let the sound come from. Second, knowing that you are listening to the sound, and the sound is also being listened to by yourself, at this time there is only the sound and your own response, there is no distracting thoughts present. Third, there is only the sound and one forgets oneself, and one has merged into the undifferentiated, limited sound.