Sometimes we identify tears with the expression of pain, but on many occasions, deep pain does not find a way to relieve and become communicative with others, some people even suppress crying because it is a shame for them to expose their feelings in public. judged or stigmatized and fear that their suffering will be assessed. Crying isn’t the only way to express sadness.
Depression is a very complex topic, with a difficult therapeutic solution, which requires explanations and intervention from different areas of knowledge, scientists associate it with a decrease in the number of boosters, or positively reinforced behaviors, that is, the individual stops enjoying what he does.
- This may be because the actions have changed shape and content.
- And are no longer so pleasant (change of company.
- Location.
- Etc.
- ).
- Because.
- Even if they do.
- Their inner world does not treat them in the same way for a psychological event.
- What happened? Or just because he’s so sad he doesn’t even execute them.
This is certainly one of the most dangerous ways to express sadness: because we are not motivated by what surrounds us, we do nothing, nor do we receive feedback, positive or negative, we do not know how to take care of ourselves and we do not continually harm ourselves.
When we are in this situation, the search for professional help can mark a significant departure from our future development, first of all we have to make a correct diagnosis, but there is no point in knowing what thoughts hurt us or make us avoid confrontations. should be a fact-based treatment.
Many patients associate depression with spending all day in bed crying, but this perception may be mis-rather, attention must be paid to other behaviors, which also indicate the delicate moment we are going through.
Depression has, in sadness, his mental symptom par excellence and, in case of severe depression, the subject may even come to deny this feeling of sadness. But there are other mental symptoms: irritability, feeling empty, nervousness.
Apathy, indifference, inability to feel pleasure. There may even be disappearance of motor responses, gestures, movement difficulties that are not due to another disease. In the most severe cases, you can get to the “depressive stupor?”(Muda and motor paralysis).
There is a change in memory, attention and ability to concentrate, knowledge and self-judgment deteriorate: excessive guilt, loss of self-esteem and self-esteem.
Insomnia, excessive fatigue, loss or increase in appetite, decreased sexual activity.
There is a deterioration of interpersonal relationships, and if isolation also occurs, the prognosis is worse.
Depression is sometimes called “soul disease” in more lyrical terms, but it is a disease that can be serious and requires treatment. There is a wide variety of therapies (Beck cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy or behavioral therapies). The important thing is to understand that even if we don’t cry (we may not be able to do it), there are many signs we need to be careful with.
Because when trying to be strong, you can end up being very weak, if this happens to you, asking for help is a step that shows courage.