I will tell you about three ways to overcome the symptoms of self-diagnosis of depression. Even healthy people can get depressed at some point. There are many reasons why depression comes, but it is very important how to deal with it. It would be great if you remember the signals that your body is sending and overcome it well.

Symptoms of Depression

Depression is like the weather of a person's mind, and our minds are constantly changing little by little. One emotion, that is, sadness, is always at the center of our minds. It is commonly called depression when it stays there for more than two weeks. I will tell you what changes occur when you get depression.

1. Changes in lifestyle

When we think of depression, we only think about our emotional state, but in reality, our eating habits and our sleep cycles change a lot. That's why, suddenly, your appetite drops, you can't sleep, or you have characteristics like sleeping too much. There are also many changes in behavior. You need to look into yourself and think about why these changes are happening instead of just dismissing it as something trivial.

2. Lack of motivation

You don't feel like doing anything, everything feels boring, and you look like you're just lazy without any motivation.

3. Negative thoughts

The most common feature is a phenomenon called rumination, where negative thoughts keep swirling in your mind. When we talk about rumination, we mean chewing something over and over again. It is constantly turning over a certain thought in your head.

But if it is something constructive and positive, it would be good, but it just happens to have some negative content, for example, the mistake you made yesterday or worrying about something that will happen tomorrow.

And the bigger problem is that there are wrong beliefs that you have, such as "I can't do anything well", "Everyone hates me." These negative beliefs keep swirling in your head.

As a result, it keeps maintaining a depressed mood, and as you maintain that depressed mood, the problem is that the depressed state continues. However, many of the thoughts called rumination are distorted. If that happens, it can make you even more difficult.

So, instead of trying to forcibly avoid that wrong sound of your mind, you need to look at the sound of your mind objectively. And think "That's not always true" and think about where it was distorted.

When you look at it objectively, "why did those distortions arise?", there is truth and falsehood mixed in, and being able to distinguish them is part of the treatment.

In conclusion

Therefore, it is necessary not to hold that flow of your mind in a rigid way, but to let it flow naturally. You need to accept it as it is, and in a given situation, you need to do what you can instead of trying to forcibly avoid it or overcome it.