When we face an increasingly common problem, such as depression, it is important to go to a psychologist to help us in the good we find ourselves in. Because contrary to what can be thought from the outside, overcoming depression requires more than willpower: it requires the use of different tools to help us in this process.
The roles of a psychologist in this context are multiple. First, you will be responsible for confirming that there is the depression we suspect; second, although you cannot prescribe, you can refer the patient to someone who may recommend pharmacological treatment, which is very positive, especially in the early stages of therapy; thirdly, it will establish an appropriate action or treatment plan for the patient and accompany it in its application, being able to make adjustments and follow-up when the depression has disappeared.
- However.
- We all know that depression is not exactly a condition in which we are particularly proactive in changing or acquiring certain habits.
- Keeping them in time and making them effective.
- That is why the will.
- But also intelligence.
- The plan of action.
- Is important.
- Established by the specialist or drug treatment.
Depression disappears when we take our strength where we don’t have to take small steps in the right direction, but the process is not easy at all.
People with depression are often particularly tempted to develop new habits that fuel their own depression: one is to isolate oneseseed from others, we don’t want to see anyone, are we sad all the time and academy, painting classes, music?Everything, We loved each other, motivated and made us feel full, now it causes us great indifference.
Perhaps this time of pause and distance is good in some cases and for a short time, especially when depression has arisen as a result of an prolonged period of stress, however, in the long run, cut this kind of “melancholy”?essential to get out of depression.
Overcoming depression is possible when we begin to do the opposite of what it leads us to do. Don’t we want to leave? Let’s go out with our friends. Don’t we want to play sports? We will get up very early and without thinking that we are going to take our backpack to go to the gym or we are going to run in nature. You will see that then it is not so difficult and it even becomes a pleasant activity. Maybe not like before, okay, but it makes it even more valuable.
The important thing is to get out of this cycle in which inertia takes us or in which we have already fallen, we have already found that there is no point in continuing like this, that nothing changes, that everything remains the same if we do continue in the same direction.
Learning to meditate, relativize problems, manage emotions, look for sources of reinforcement are tools that a psychologist can give us if we want to get out of depression.
So, one of the keys to overcoming depression is to start introducing different habits or recover those we love and abandon, there are, for example, some, like playing music, that we may have stopped loving, that may be advisable not to. Recover. However, I am sure that there are many others for which we continue to retain a certain taste and that we do not do so because of the initial effort they demand of us; an effort that looks like a mountain before the few forces we feel.
Going to the gym and talking to strangers or acquaintances, dating friends you’ve always had an excuse for, starting to eat healthier things (practicing so-called conscious eating) and doing moderate exercise will be important steps with what we say?depression. Simply because they will provide times when we will feel better.
Very well. We already know that depression will tend to leave us when we recover or seek activities that do us good, in front of us and doing an exercise of will to recover activities that we have liked or incorporate new ones that we may like. And what else?
Previously, we said that one of the characteristics of depression is that it usually provides introspection. She said, “Hey, are you in crisis?” And it puts us in a state where it seems easier to think. Well, we can use that to try to get to know each other better and get our emotions in order. Yes, our internal order doesn’t work, so let’s look for it and find a new one.
In this sense, writing can be very positive to evacuate emotionally, and also to follow our emotional changes, also allows us to return to our words to know where we continue to fail and be more aware of the situation in which we find ourselves.
Many professionals consider writing to be therapeutic, and they are right. Sometimes we can’t or don’t want to tell anyone what’s happening to us, but we always need to communicate one way or another. Keeping an emotional diary is very important, and not just when we are suffering from depression or some problem. This habit will be very positive for everyone.
The natural thing is that at first we find it difficult to return to the pages where we express all our pain, however, over time it will become a necessity to feel, revive and heal, until we can navigate the pages like someone else. reading a book, recovering memories of a lived situation that already resides in the past.
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. -Napoleon Hill-
At this point, we already know that overcoming depression is possible when we change certain habits, however, the path will be difficult, long, and many times we will stop moving forward to take steps back. The current one, following the help of a psychologist, the depression will end. Because. Depression also dies when we cut off all the sources that provide it.