With the arrival of autumn, we have moved from the lively, cheerful, extroverted mood of the summer months to a slightly rainy and partly cloudy mood of looking out the window a little more, listening to oneself more, and spending individual time. Although there is no scientifically qualified evidence, it is among the information obtained that seasons accelerate or eliminate depression processes.
Seeing oneself as worthless and inadequate and feeling bad is valid for everyone from time to time. This is not a crime or weakness. If these feelings have turned into depression, great relief can be achieved with treatment and professional help.
We can define depression and the process of receiving this diagnosis as follows;
-Decrease in the things you enjoy and loss of interest.
-Feeling sad, sad, not in a good mood.
-Decrease or increase in weight.
-Sleep disorder or excessive sleep.
-Boredom, restlessness, restlessness, indecisiveness.
-Feeling inadequate, worthless, as if you have committed a crime.
-Decrease in attention and thought concentration.
-Decrease in energy, feeling of aging, decrease in working power and efficiency.
-Recurrent thoughts of death.
-Change in sexual interest.
If you have at least 3 of these symptoms and have been experiencing them for at least 2 weeks, a clinic-based treatment for depression is recommended.
Depression is a concept we all know or are familiar with. Our expectations from the mood of depressed people contain similar expressions for each of us. These ; The depressed person is sad, unhappy, does not enjoy life, is stuck in his/her personality, has a weakness in social communication, and has an ongoing sad mood... However, covert depression breaks all known taboos, because the person with covert depression does not show depressive symptoms. While they may seem happy to others and always have a smile on their face, they suffer from inside. Smiling depression, also known as masked depression, often goes unnoticed. People who suffer from this ignore their feelings and always keep them under the rug. These people may not even be aware that they are depressed, or they may not admit that they have symptoms of depression for fear of appearing weak.
“G The most distinctive feature of smiling depression is sadness. The smile on the face and external appearance are a defense mechanism that a person hides behind to hide his true feelings. A person may experience sadness due to reasons such as a relationship with an unhappy ending, internal troubles due to family reasons, difficulties with his career, or not being able to set a correct goal for himself in life. Other common symptoms of latent depression are restlessness, fear, anger, fatigue, irritability, hopelessness and helplessness.
In latent depression, the feeling of joylessness, stagnation, sorrow and lack of pleasure in something is not observed much. This time, depression emerges through body and organ language. Chronic, migratory pain, facial pain, headaches, asthma attack, gastrointestinal disorders, palpitations, dizziness, blood pressure imbalances, nausea and vomiting, allergies, rheumatism, forgetfulness, learning disabilities, sleep problems, appetite, sexual problems, alcohol-drug. Substance use, obsessions, obsessions, and personality changes may be reflections of depression in different ways.
So, is it possible to get rid of this situation?
Yes, there is a treatment for implicit depression, and it is not as difficult as you think. In addition to receiving counseling services or support such as psychotherapy or hypnotherapy, people with smiling depression can start by opening up to the people around them. and making it a routine to share your concerns. While doing this, it is important that the person does not feel like he or she is a burden to the other party.
We sometimes ignore the fact that people around us can be happy when they support us, even though we know that it makes us happy when we do the same thing for others. Opening up and sharing your feelings is the most important step in dealing with depressive thoughts. Human beings are social beings at every point of their lives, interacting with others allows you to accept the situation and experience the lightness of sharing it with another person. Remember that depressive feelings and thoughts should not be handled appropriately. When it grows, it grows exponentially within you and takes you captive. The basis of sharing with someone and meeting with an expert is to share and reduce those negative feelings and thoughts. Unhappiness decreases as you share, happiness increases as you share.
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