According to the psychologist: the pros and cons of the spring depression

Guest post from Vladimir Vahrameeva - practicing psychologist and a certified Gestalt therapist from Perm. Vladimir writes articles and notes about the psychological recovery on the basis of their personal and professional experience. One of them - about the symptoms, causes, positive aspects and dangers of spring blues - he shares with readers Layfhakera.

In the spring often I notice at grooving symptoms of depression, the people - the blues. Clients come to me in this period, often with the same, so that we always have something to talk about. :) Overall, this painful condition, but with good treatment, it may be helpful and perhaps even pleasant (oddly enough!).

Depression occurs when some important for our desires are unanswered.

And in the spring for some reason it becomes particularly large. Or are they at this time for many of the more noticeable.

symptoms It is well known:

• fast fatiguability;
• drowsiness;
• gloomy thoughts;
• light, often unfounded irritability;
• emotional depression;
• lack of inspiring interest;
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• change in appetite: I want to have many, many, especially sweet, or, on the contrary, the piece will not go into the throat;
• decreased physical and intellectual activity;
• blunting of emotional response;
• detachment from the people ...

All these "joy" is rolled simultaneously or selectively.

Yourself can add to the list for its top-end signs (write in comments, I wonder).

The reasons are not always as obvious. In addition to the banal beriberi (which, of course, also affected), there are many occasions in my heart and in human relations.

Outside, everything comes to life, and inside there

In fact, it may be, and in the winter the human condition has been so-so. But as the round was too cold and gloomy most of the day, it is not much contrast with the surrounding environment. In the spring everything is different: the sun gets more people lightly dressed, snowdrops are punched, the whole of nature comes alive. Against this background, it becomes more obvious their own depressed.

Experience it as if otstaosh from some very important train. In which he leaves all good, and you at this desolate and lonely platform no pleasure does not wait.

Intimacy with others? No, have not heard!

Spring around it becomes warmer and lighter, too, wakes up in a lot of sympathy for others. How all of a sudden you notice that some man greatly loved, someone is important to someone like to meet, to speak frankly, to experience intimacy.

On and a lot of experiences, and ways to do this, forms of expression - a little. And the scary show.

The sympathies of some of its many vulnerabilities - and suddenly rejected! Therefore, it all remains a deep stuff, and under a thick layer of melancholy packaging. So that no one would never guess that this grim and depressed friend in a loving, gentle and very sympathetic!

Ok, Google... Where is my inspiration?

Love air spring. He's so tempting, easy and pleasant... as you open the cabinet of the working window, look outside as just want to go for a walk, to spend time on the street. If this is what you do for a long time you are not happy, you have lost interest, inspiring meaning of the work, the nature of successfully competing with the workload. We have to literally force myself to keep the workplace. And any abuse leads to a depression. It becomes important to look for the lost interest, lost meaning. Otherwise it will have to fall into depression, to somehow ignore the desire to send everything to hell and from morning to evening walk around the city with friends, as a child!

Probably, especially astute readers know more good reasons to fall into melancholy in the spring. Share in the comments. Discuss!

Depression is like the lady in black. When she came to, do not drive it away, and invite to the table, as a guest, and then listen to what she was going to say.

TO. G. Jung

Spring blues with good circulation with it can be a valuable and carry a few advantages.

Pros spring blues

1. If you're a long time was a hyperactive, depression It helps slow down, Begin to notice something important, but an endless race for achievements, successive impressions and personal greatness!
2. Some depressed are more sensitive to their psychological boundaries. If, for example, a man accustomed to tolerate others, to maintain goodwill, even in cases with poor treatment, the depression It helps to step back, To close the border and start to scare others. At least his expression grim.
3. Blues and a lot of help to become deeper and more meaningful. As often imply lack of interest in what you're doing, what you devote time. This allows you to slow down, abandon the pointless and look for the lost inspiration.
4. Depression can slow down the experience of pain. If suddenly a man suddenly faced with the fact that much of his wounds, for example, was rejected by the way he man the spleen helps to press pause. And for a while to wait. As long as you do not will have more opportunities to survive the painful sense.

Perhaps you have something to add to this list... Well, you already know, comments do just that!

Cons and dangers of the doldrums

1. To depression get used to. If recent positive experience in humans have been two years ago and there was no one to pay attention to the fact that he was very depressed, it is possible that depression is familiar with its background. It seems that the way it should be.
2. The longer the melancholy, the longer go out of it. To return to the metaphor of the train, the farther left the composition of a good mood, the harder it is to catch up.
3. There are more and physical ailments. As various kinds of disease often accompanied by depression (since she is also associated with reduced immunity), and prolonged exposure to these conditions can lead to a nasty physical ailments.
4. Depression can occur in the so-called phase of mania. This is when it seems that everything is great, you're on the rise, the day you have a million dating, a thousand things designed and redesigned. In this case, you do not notice as the host country's decision, the plant unnecessary contacts, behaving meaningless talk is wasted wasting power. BUT deep down you are very lonely and depressed. Then, once in the opposite depressive phase, it becomes very slowed down, sleepy and grim. A so-called yearning for mania. Although in reality it's just two sides of the same coin!

How can I prevent the spring blues

1. be physically sedentary life, To give your body regular exercise. Clinically it is proven that a sedentary lifestyle contributes to depressive feelings.
2. Talk with loved ones about your relationship, that you care about. About his experiences. That they are not settled in your dead weight that drags the bottom of the depression.
3. To pause conceptualize, where are you going and for what. In order not to lose the inspiration to do what is really important. And not the fact that supposedly should be done or that someone imposed from the outside.
4. Finally, I believe that a psychologist - is a modern and safe way take care of your emotional state. Otherwise, why would I do that?

The last thing I will say today: the life of every healthy person is filled with different states, including close to depression.

If in spring you played out light blues, for a day or a bad mood, then there is no reason to panic. This is normal.

Be attentive to him. In that case, if you are in a depressed state for quite a long time (more than two weeks), it makes sense to think about depression.