Reduction of light day negatively influences our mood, many find in themselves apathy and drowsiness during this period. But at some autumn despondency turns into a depression with which it is necessary to think up how to fight. And it is necessary to make it because the similar state has ability to progress and, neglected, can lead to very unpleasant consequences.
How to struggle with a male depression independently?
To deal with this question, at first it is worth learning to distinguish a depression from usual fatigue. Distinguish from symptoms of a depression:
- fatigue, constant drowsiness, feeling of exhaustion even after daily affairs;
- constant grief, feeling of alarm or emptiness;
- lack of self-esteem, constant heart-searching, sense of guilt and impossibility to struggle with feeling of inferiority;
- increase in weight or its dumping against the background of the changed appetite;
- sleep disorders;
- the increased irritability;
- pessimism, misunderstanding of the role in this life;
- difficulties with concentration of attention, impossibility to concentrate, forgetfulness;
- decrease in sexual activity;
- lack of desire to communicate with someone, even with the closest friends;
- thoughts of death;
- problems with digestion, spasms, migraine, muscle pains and pains of other character which are killed only by drugs.
To speak about a depression, it is necessary to have several signs, except for thoughts of suicide, but in this case the independent solution is impossible, the help of the expert is necessary. If the situation is not so started, then the question how to fight against apathy and a depression independently, is quite justified because the fact of the address to the doctor for many is a severe stress. But it is necessary to understand that a condition of melancholy, fatigue and other symptoms of a depression will be it only in the presence of duration of manifestations, that is you have to be in such state not less than 2 weeks. If everything couple of days you want to do nothing and at all there is no desire to see the faces of colleagues, then this state "everything bothered, I want a vacation", but not a depression. But such overcautious persons among a strong half of mankind are not enough, owing to the rationality only the problems connected with a physical state seem to them essential, and here it is possible not to pay attention to emotions. Therefore often the headache is muffled by tablets, fatigue is written off for a working overstrain, and everything proceeds. Besides, thanks to inability to express emotions the depression at men can pour out in various corporal illnesses – pains in heart, migraines, disorders of digestion, skin diseases with which see a doctor. As a result all forces are thrown on elimination of symptoms, and a question how to struggle with a male depression is set when it became long, that is has constant character for half a year and more.
Naturally, treatment of a depression needs to be trusted experts, but without your active participation in process of elimination of an illness nothing will turn out.
How to struggle with an autumn depression independently?
- Try to observe a day regimen, go to sleep and wake up at the same time. Do not accept sleeping pill if it was not appointed by the doctor, otherwise your dream will depend on drug intake. Also you should not go too to bed early if your organism got used "to be disconnected" after 12, then at 9 o'clock in the evening you will hardly fall asleep.
- Often during a depression the people forget even about daily affairs, up to personal care. Return to the normal state, having remembered them, try to prepare for yourself, to do exercises, it gradually will help to return self-confidence.
- Remember what you liked to do earlier: walks, hobby, reading books. It is important to do it now even if special you do not feel pleasure.
- Go to the gym, begin to be engaged seriously. During physical exercises the brain begins production of natural antidepressants. Therefore active lifestyle will help to cope with a depression not worse than the drugs appointed by the doctor.
- Do not avoid communication with friends and close people, sometimes it helps better than a conversation with the psychotherapist. Do not consider this illness the weakness, and be not afraid to show it, such fears take away the mass of forces.
- Alcohol, the narcotic and stimulating substances are capable to give temporary relief, but finally they will only aggravate a state, having added problems with health. Also do not abuse caffeine as its surplus is capable to raise a condition of uneasiness that in the period of a depression will pour out in very unpleasant consequences.
- Try to address east practicians with meditations and contemplation. Mental analysis of a situation will help to leave only the facts, will show insolvency of experiences, so, and it is not necessary to wait for finding of tranquility long.
The main thing that needs to be remembered: a depression – it is serious, it is necessary just to pay attention to this state, it needs treatment, as well as to any other illness. But in other cases you can only implement the recommendations of the doctor, and at a depression it is possible to take active part in improvement of the state.
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