What does depressed mood mean? Depression generally comes from two reasons, external and internal. The external influence may be caused by things in other people's lives, and the internal influence may be because the appearance is not good-looking, so learn to resolve your negative emotions. Here are some related contents about depression. Let's have a look!

What does depressed mood mean? 1 Depression refers to the negative mentality of feeling tied, restrained, heavy and bored psychologically.

Depression is usually manifested as dull mood, irritability, dissatisfaction, lethargy, and sometimes nameless fire. Everything seems boring. You can neither share other people's happiness nor share other people's sadness. You are indifferent to other people's joys and sorrows, it is difficult to resonate, you lose extensive interests, and you are stuck in self-discipline all day. There seems to be a stone in my heart that is hard to get rid of, and I will feel desperate when it is serious.

Generally speaking, the sense of oppression is most likely to occur in the following situations: when a certain need is not met, and this need is very strong but helpless, it will produce a sense of oppression, no matter whether this need is reasonable or unreasonable, just or unjust, conditional or impossible, as long as this need is coveted but not met, it will certainly feel depressed and bored;

When the overall requirements of society deviate from their own wishes and pursuits, they will feel bound and oppressed, but they can't do whatever they want, and then they will feel depressed; When the academic and professional burdens are too heavy, the competition pressure is too heavy, and the expectations of society, units, schools and families are too high, they will feel overwhelmed, feel depressed all the time, and then feel anxious and depressed; When interpersonal disharmony or even alienation cannot be reversed, people will feel helpless and heavy, resulting in a sense of depression. ...

Although a person's inferiority and depression can also produce or accompany depression, the appearance of these scenes is generally more likely to produce depression. Depression is not the same as depression. Although depression can produce a sense of depression, depression is sometimes accompanied by depression, but depression is only manifested as sadness and depression, usually without the feeling of being restrained and depressed;

Depression, on the other hand, is characterized by depressed mood, as if there is a stone in my heart, with obvious sense of bondage and inhibition, strong desire and impulse to vent, so that I often complain and complain, and there seems to be an uncontrollable fire burning in my heart. Therefore, although depression and depression are both emotional disorders, their inner experiences are different.

Depression is a common morbid social psychology. In psychology, it means that after personal frustration, the thoughts and emotions about change are not released and turned out, but suppressed in the heart and unwilling to admit the existence of troubles. Depression can relieve temporary anxiety, but it does not completely disappear, but becomes a subconscious, which makes people's mentality and behavior become negative and eccentric.

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When there is a contradiction between the individual and the external reality, the individual does not take the initiative to adjust the relationship with the outside world, but retreats, avoids contradictions, returns to the individual's subjective world, self-discipline, self-discipline, and inner peace, so as to achieve spiritual peace.

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Avoiding contradictions does not mean solving them. As long as contradictions exist, individuals are bound to experience unpleasant emotions. This feeling is increasing day by day, gradually depressing the whole psychology, and depressed people often feel bad about themselves.

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Frustrated thoughts and emotions are suppressed in the heart and will be transformed into the subconscious over time. The subconscious mind also dominates people's needs and motives. For example, a person who has repeatedly failed in his career wants to do a blockbuster, such as making a trouble. For example, the more things are forbidden, the more people want to inquire about their mysteries and so on. Psychological repression is different from self-restraint. Self-restraint is to properly control one's emotions and behaviors on certain occasions under the control of reason, which is the behavior of people adapting to the environment. Psychological repression is an excessive repression of one's emotions, thoughts and behaviors, which often leads to abnormal behavior. Therefore, it is necessary to further analyze the causes of depression. [ 1]

What does it mean to suppress emotions? Individuals are not allowed to express negative emotions when growing up, which may lead to emotional depression.

Invisible social rules and family education may also convey an idea to individuals that "emotional exposure" is a wrong, shameful and cowardly performance.

Childhood traumatic experiences may also lead to individual depression. Ignoring or denying individual needs in childhood and being punished for emotional exposure may lead children to suppress their emotions in adulthood.

If an individual suffers punishment or injury because of emotional exposure in childhood, he is likely to avoid injury by suppressing his emotions. In adulthood, individuals may still unconsciously hide or suppress their emotions and consciously push them aside.

In most cases, individuals tend to suppress strong negative emotions, especially those related to painful or unpleasant experiences. Such as anger, depression, sadness, fear and depression.

These emotions are usually classified as negative emotions. Individuals often suppress feelings that they think are "bad" or that others may judge them. This may be related to the education received by individuals in childhood:

Parents may never express or expose their negative emotions, but will intentionally or unintentionally send some information to their children to deny their emotional experience and humiliate or punish their children's emotional exposure behaviors, such as "Never mind", "Don't cry", "Learn to be grateful", "Don't think too much, everything will pass" and "Just worry about you, too melodramatic" and so on.

When individuals come into contact with this educational concept from an early age, they will gradually agree that "it is not a good thing to have and express negative emotions." In addition, in the process of growing up, individuals have never been exposed to the education on how to express and deal with negative emotions, which will lead to the formation of coping mechanisms to avoid and suppress negative emotions.

Even though caregivers may not explicitly deny the individual's emotional experience, they will still stop the child from expressing his emotions freely by ordering him to stop crying. So personally, I think there should be no sadness, anger, depression and other emotions, at least not in front of others.

Individuals tend to be "normal" and show emotions that can be generally accepted by others because they know that these emotions will not attract criticism.

Side effects of emotional depression

Suppressed negative emotions do not mean that they will disappear.

Depressed negative emotions may lead to a series of psychological and physiological symptoms and serious social consequences.

Individuals can't regard themselves as a whole, and can't recognize and face up to their positive and negative characteristics at the same time, which leads to negative cognition of themselves and hinders individuals from cultivating their ability to find their own problems and seek help (Garssen, 2007). Individuals who are depressed tend to present psychological problems in a physical way, pay attention to physical symptoms and ignore emotional problems (Abbass, 2005).

At present, it has not been proved that emotions can directly cause disease. "Sadness won't make people catch a cold, and anger won't cause cancer." However, the results show that emotional depression is related to the decline of immune function, and long-term suppressed unresolved emotions will lead to chronic stress, anxiety and depression.

Chronic stress will lead to the increase of cortisol hormone in individuals, which will lead to arrhythmia, decreased motivation and sleep disorder (Patel &; Patel, 20 19).

In addition, depressed individuals are usually difficult to cope with difficulties, so when they encounter life adversity, they tend to adopt non-adaptive coping strategies, such as overeating, substance abuse, emotional isolation and avoidance.

The following are the possible health problems caused by emotional depression:

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Chronic pain

cardiovascular disease

Decreased immune function

What does it mean to suppress emotions? 3. How to deal with negative emotions?

Emotional depression can be a semi-conscious or unconscious coping strategy (Garssen, 2007). Therefore, if individuals have realized that they are suppressing their emotions, they have taken a crucial step.

Negative emotions can't be eliminated, but individuals can reflect on whether their behavior of suppressing emotions still exists and learn how to deal with negative emotions effectively instead of suppressing behaviors. This process requires individuals to bravely face the pain caused by negative emotions, enhance their tolerance for negative emotions, and learn how to coexist with negative emotions.

Here are some effective methods:

1, know the way you look at emotions.

The cognition of negative emotions affects the individual's coping style, and the individual's attitude towards negative emotions will affect his own feelings and emotional adjustment methods.

For example, if an individual regards negative emotions as a sign of problems, troubles and cowardice, then when he or others experience negative emotions, he or she will feel uncomfortable and will avoid or suppress this emotion. This avoidance or suppression will gradually become a habitual automatic behavior. Therefore, if individuals can perceive their own behavior patterns, it will help to break the cycle of habitual avoidance of negative emotions.

2. Emotional and psychological education

What is the meaning of emotion? What are the functions of positive emotions and negative emotions? Understanding emotion and its mechanism can explain some emotional fallacies and correctly understand the importance and value of emotion, that is, emotion itself is not threatening. Negative emotions are part of a normal, healthy and beneficial life. Avoid falling into the "happiness trap", that is, thinking that negative emotions are a sign of weakness or low emotional intelligence. Trying to escape negative emotions often leads to more emotional pain. The most important thing in life is happiness? Scientific understanding and management of negative emotions

3. Understand the influence of emotions on the body.

To learn to cope with emotions, we must first understand the influence of emotions on the body. Various emotions have different effects on the body and vary from person to person. For example, for some individuals, there will be a feeling of chest tightness when they are anxious; There will be angina pectoris when you are sad; When you are angry, your scalp tightens and your temples jump.

When an individual experiences a specific emotion, paying attention to his physical changes will promote the individual to understand the relationship between emotion and body.

4. Look for factors that trigger emotions

Paying attention to physical changes can help individuals detect and identify the factors that trigger emotions, so as to prepare for the upcoming emotions effectively. For example, if an individual knows that speaking at a meeting will make him feel anxious, he can calm his anxiety by preparing in advance to reduce the possibility of worrying about events, cognitive correction and rational evaluation of his performance, and body muscle relaxation exercises.

Step 5 live with emotions

Individuals can't control negative emotions, let alone eliminate them. Trying to get rid of negative emotions is like someone trying to push a ball into the water, but it always bounces back to the surface. The harder you use it, the greater the rebound.

Instead of always fighting the ball in vain, let it float around your body. Negative emotions are like' balls floating in the bathtub'. If you treat them as toys, you can live in peace with them, otherwise they will become a trouble that affects bathing.

In the same way, instead of trying to drive away negative emotions, it is better to continue to live with negative emotions and change the relationship between individuals and negative emotions. As long as you don't try to suppress negative emotions, negative emotions won't rebound and it will be easier to get along.

Step 6 acknowledge emotions

Name the emotion (for example, the current emotion is "anger"; The "anxiety" emotion is back) helps individuals to admit the existence of their negative emotions. In this process, individuals don't judge themselves and let themselves experience emotions.

Knowing and perceiving the existence of negative emotions will not worsen them. Emotions come and go like clouds and waves. Recognizing the periodicity of emotions can promote individuals to accept negative emotions more completely.

7. Accept emotions

Coexistence with emotions refers to focusing on feeling emotions and the physical changes caused by them. For example, when you feel anxious, you will feel uneasy and your body will be in a tight state. At this time, you can perceive your physical feelings and emotions, "make room" for your anxiety and allow anxiety to exist. Coexistence with emotions is not to change or eliminate such emotions, but to realize that we can coexist with these negative emotions without exaggerating their negative effects. Negative emotions are not terrible.

8. Identify the information conveyed by emotions

When individuals experience negative emotions, it is very important to identify the information conveyed by emotions. Think about three questions:

1, what triggered my mood?

2. What message does this emotion want to convey to me?

3. What do I need to do after identifying emotional information?

Humans rely on instinct to survive and avoid danger, and negative emotions are the intuitive response of individuals when they encounter crisis. As a product of evolution, the negative emotions in modern society rarely indicate the arrival of serious threats, and sometimes unrealistic threats will induce excessive emotional reactions of individuals, just as too much cooking fumes may trigger a smoke alarm, even if there is no fire, the alarm will still sound.

Therefore, even if there are no real problems, emotions may be triggered. Reflecting on the above three questions is helpful to think and analyze the signals transmitted by the brain and body. When individuals realize this, they will not act impulsively because of emotional intuition, but will help them make the most effective decision at the moment.

9. Effective action

Once an individual knows the true information conveyed by emotions, he can decide whether to take action and what kind of action will be effective for the individual and others. Effective actions include:

Find solutions and take effective actions;

If emotion is a false warning, then coexist with emotion until it gradually fades;

Be kind to yourself and care for yourself;

Mindfulness meditation; Relax your body;

Devote yourself wholeheartedly to current activities, such as cooking, playing with children or fitness.

Whether an individual successfully handles his own negative emotions is valuable experience, which can further train his own skills in dealing with negative emotions and cultivate his own recognition and understanding of negative emotions of himself and others.

10, practice

It is not easy to learn how to deal with negative emotions, but we have a lifetime to change our avoidance and suppression coping mechanisms and learn more reasonable and constructive coping strategies. Just like playing the piano, learning a foreign language or driving a car, learning a new coping style is also painful and uncomfortable. Individuals need to set goals, persevere and learn from failures. But with the accumulation of skills and experience, this process will become easier and easier until it becomes an automated behavior and a part of the individual.