Physical therapy can give people a sense of relaxation and autonomy after exercise, which is conducive to overcoming the loneliness of depressed patients. However, exercise must have a certain intensity, duration and frequency in order to achieve the expected results. Take doing aerobics as an example, including running, skipping and fitness dancing. , at least three times a week, each lasting 15 to 20 minutes. Walking can also achieve the same effect as running. Experts advise patients to walk 1500m every day, and strive to walk within 15min. Then gradually increase the distance until you run 4500 meters in 45 minutes. When you start exercising, you must get the doctor's permission.
Nutrition therapy Many doctors believe that vitamins and amino acids contained in food have an important influence on people's mental health. Some experts believe that paranoid people can also cause depression if they lack a single nutrient, so he suggests that people eat more foods rich in vitamin B, such as coarse grains and fish. He also asked patients to take a certain dose of vitamin B complex. He thinks these are vitamins that people are easy to lack.
Psychotherapy patients with depression often look at the world and themselves with colored glasses. In order to change this misconception, Gary Emmer of the Los Angeles Psychiatric Center put forward the "three A methods", that is, understanding, answering and acting. Because the English letters of the three words all start with a, they are called.
Understand: first admit that you are depressed; Secondly, we should pay attention to our emotional changes, whether there are abnormalities in words and deeds, and the differences between feelings, thinking and physical reactions.
Answer: Learn to identify and record mistakes in time when they occur. Write down your wrong ideas first, and then write a more practical choice answer, in order to test your ideas in practice. After writing, ask yourself, "Can this be true?" Then ask yourself: "How to look at it from another angle?"
Action: If you don't feel valued, you should adopt a new way. If you are uncomfortable at work, you should take a course to improve your skills or find a new job. Plan more activities to make your life regular.
The research of communication therapy shows that people who are good at making friends are much happier in mental state than those who like to be alone. A mental health laboratory in the United States recently launched an activity with the slogan "Friends are good medicine". They think that social support can even make people live longer.