Self-treatment of mental illness? How to treat mental illness

Some people suffer from mental illness without knowing it, such as anxiety, bad mood, etc. In fact, these are all reflections of mental illness. Especially after becoming ill, it is easy to lose temper with people around you and have no confidence and hope in life. How can I treat myself after suffering from a mental illness? Let’s take a look at the following introduction.

1. Do deep breathing or relaxation exercises. When people are angry, they will have obvious physical reactions, such as muscle tension, slight tremors, and accelerated heartbeat. Deep breathing or relaxation exercises can help relax your muscles and bring your body down from its high-alert state. So when you're angry, try taking a few deep breaths and see how that helps.

2. Delay getting angry. When you are angry, try to delay your anger, 10 seconds at first, and then gradually extend the time. If you can postpone your anger for just one day, you will find that the anger has basically disappeared. Also, when you feel anger filling your chest, take a few seconds to calmly describe how you and your spouse are feeling. When you are able to describe the real situation from a "third person" perspective, the anger will slowly disappear.

3. Keep an anger diary. When you are angry, you might as well write down your thoughts or feelings. This will help you organize your thoughts and discover your true feelings, because the emotional reaction when you are angry is not your true feeling. Studies have shown that people who are good at writing down their feelings or concerns are healthier and happier than those who just think without writing. Moreover, when we write down our feelings, we feel less angry.

4. Divert and vent. Psychological experts do not advocate suppressing one's emotions excessively, because negative emotions accumulated in the heart for a long time will harm a person's physical and mental health. Therefore, moderately releasing the negative emotions accumulated in your heart is one of the effective ways to regulate your psychology. When you feel unhappy, you can do the following exercises, which can not only vent your negative emotions but also avoid hurting others. 1. Put on loose and baggy clothes, lie on the bed, and make fists. While raising your right fist, lift your left foot and hit it hard on the bed. Then, switch to left fist and right foot. Repeat this movement without stopping. You can also open your mouth and shout a specific word such as "hate", and the volume will increase with the speed of the hits until you get tired of shouting. 2. Think about the person or thing that makes you angry, take a deep breath, and make some sounds without any text symbols with your mouth, but don't let yourself say it out loud. Continue to take deep breaths until you feel the person or thing that makes you angry slowly disappear from your mind.

5. Participate in some high-intensity exercise. It is recommended that men participate in some high-intensity exercise when they feel bad or irritable and anxious. A large number of studies have shown that exercise has a calming and anti-depressant effect on the human mind. Intense physical exercise such as running, hitting a sandbag or playing tennis, skiing, swimming, etc. can not only maintain masculinity and enhance self-confidence, but also effectively soothe emotions and reduce stress.

These six common mental illness symptoms and self-treatment methods have one core, which is that all mental illnesses are caused by the lack of harmony between the patient and the surrounding environment and the patient's inner self, so the treatment must be tailored to the disease. On the one hand, patients are required to muster up courage and firm their confidence; on the other hand, they are also required to control themselves and maintain good relationships with people around them. This is the key to treating mental illness.