What Are Alternative Treatments for Depression?

"Smile depression" is a type of depression, a new type of depression that occurs mostly in urban white-collar workers or service industries. Because of "the need for work", "the need for face", "the need for etiquette", "the need for dignity and responsibility", they are smiling most of the day, and this "smile" is not from the heart. Real feelings, but a burden, become emotional depression over time. "Habitual smile expressions" can't eliminate the pressure, worry, and sorrow brought about by work, life, and other aspects. It only allows them to accumulate depression and pain.

Smile depression

(A type of depression)

"smile

On a hot summer day, while the weather is irritating, a "occupational disease" seems to be spreading. Do you often need to smile to your boss, colleagues, and customers? Do you often lose control of your temper when facing parents, partners, or friends? If so, be wary, as you are most likely to have a white-collar "smile and depression."

"Smile-type depression" mostly occurs in successful people with high status, high knowledge, and successful careers. There are more men than women. They are senior officials in institutions, bosses in enterprises, or technical staff in higher vocational schools. The impression that humanoids have in society is that they are powerful and powerful, and their ability seems unquestionable. However, the fact is that these people have the same confusion, distress, helplessness, and sadness as ordinary people, but in order to maintain their "faces" of "powerful people" and "strong people", they are unwilling to talk to others. Deep down in the heart is pain, depression, sorrow and sorrow. Therefore, most of these people are constrained by the concept of "face". They play a strong and strong role on the surface and carry pressure.

"

Currently similar to "

"Smile service" has become a concept advocated by almost every industry. In order to popularize working smile widely, smile institutes have also appeared in Japan and other countries, where you can learn a lot of basic theoretical courses about smiles and laughter. At present, a Fortune 500 company specializing in the production of medical equipment has also developed a face recognition technology device to measure the physiological degree and quality of smiles. Industry and companies want to take it back to improve and monitor employee smile quality.

American scholar Thor believes that different people enter different

Supportive psychotherapy

Depression psychotherapy is mainly based on supportive psychotherapy. Especially in the early stages of the disease, the patient's mood is extremely low, and supportive psychotherapy is the main method. In response to the patient's psychological and social factors and their adverse environment, this is related to verbal and behavioral support. All patients with depression need support and encouragement, and a full explanation of their disease status. If the depression is not serious, you should discuss and consult with the patient on the state of life at an early stage. If the symptoms of depression are severe, they should not be discussed with the patients early, because this will only increase the patient's psychological pressure and increase the patient's disappointment. The doctor should focus on motivating the patients from their sense of responsibility and restore the patients' confidence in life.

2. Psychotherapy

Depressed patients are depressed and interested, often immersed in painful pathological experiences. Therefore, the doctor should take various positive measures to mobilize the enthusiasm of the patient, let the patient do more of what they are interested in, increase the patient's activity, increase excitement, and improve emotional state. Help patients analyze their past and current personality defects to the adverse aspects of the disease and overcome these factors to prevent the depression from harming the body. Let patients vent their bad emotions, a series of positive activities appear psychologically, and strengthen patients' psychological highlights, and encourage patients to love life and be strong in life.

3. Cognitive Therapy

Among the psychotherapy methods for depression, rational emotional therapy, cognitive psychotherapy and human behavior therapy are the best. These treatments are based on the cognitive triad theory of depression, that is, people with depression treat themselves negatively, what they do, and the future. The goal of treatment is to change the patient's negative cognition and replace the negative cognition with a more realistic explanation, so that the patient can better face the reality and deal with the real problems.

How to treat depression has always been the most concerned issue for all people. Psychotherapy is one of the most effective methods in the treatment of depression. ^[1]