Suddenly something bad happens and sadness begins to take over your life. You feel bad, very bad. Everything creates so much pain that you don’t want to do anything. And you don’t. You lie in your bed watching life go by. There comes a time when it’s not that you don’t want to move, you just can’t.
And you get used to this lack of activity. It seems to make you feel better. You’re convinced that leaving the house would be an increase in inconvenience. Because disappearing hasn’t disappeared, but it seems that by not moving, you’re already stabilized and even bearable?React, take back control of your life and start feeling better!There’s a long way to go, but do we have to take the first step?Behavioral activation can help us, will we go with me?
- Although there is generally little comment on these issues.
- The reality is that 13% of diseases are mental.
- Due to their high prevalence and associated risks.
- Such as suicide.
- Depression is one of the most important conditions.
- Not only is it the main and the most common complaint in primary care.
- But it is also the health problem that hurts you the most.
- Because depression has the power to weaken our whole body.
The prevalence of this type of disease exceeds the rates of various physical diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular problems, in addition, the number of this type of disorders is expected to be significantly higher by 2020 if prevention and treatment strategies, such as behavioral activation, are not implemented.
In addition to reaching a considerable number of people, this entails a number of costs for patients, both personally, socially and economically; on the other hand, it is often associated with other diseases, both physical and mental; finally, it is a disease that usually gets chronic, causing a worsening of everything mentioned.
Behavioral activation is a tool to overcome depression that focuses on the behaviors of depressed people. Thus, the application of this therapeutic instrument is part of the analysis of what people do with this diagnosis. When we look at this, what we find is that depressed people do little activity and, as depression progresses, the number is even lower.
That is, when we are depressed we reduce our participation rate: we refuse to participate in new projects when those we had in progress finish and even abandon them. Behavioral activation works on these abandonments. What this technique is trying to achieve is to make the person gradually increase the things they do.
But you must keep something in mind. It’s not about doing things to do. X? The problem is to do more activities that are relevant to the person suffering from depression, this can involve various tasks, from reading, doing sports, resuming friendships, dancing, even traveling or going to lunch to our favorite place. should be done gradually. So we’re trying to rebuild our lives little by little.
Behavioral activation has been extensively studied, so the benefits it brings in relation to the treatment of depression have been identified and, more importantly, presents itself as an alternative or complementary technique to psychopharmaceutical treatment, increasing the positive impact of treatment, shortening the recovery period and reducing side effects.
In fact, behavioral activation has been shown to be at least as effective as the use of psychopharmaceuticals in the treatment of depression, but not only that, it has a very clear positive point about drugs: it does not cause the side effects of drug treatment. .
Behavioral activation is a technique that has proven its effectiveness in treating this health problem, this does not mean that it should be implemented in isolation in the therapeutic process, on the contrary, it is another tool to consider to recover health and health. wellness, and should always be designed, programmed and controlled by a professional.
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