Have you ever experienced feelings of sadness, anxiety, resentment, and emotions that all mixed into one in 2 weeks or more? If so, you have been depressed.
Like uninvited guests, depression can come to anyone with a variety of causes. This mental health disorder can attack the poor or rich. No exception to celebrities or commoners.
Of course, when depression has arisen it needs to be cured so that it is not prolonged. How to deal with depression is usually by taking antidepressant medication.
But, it's not a good thing when you're used to taking medication to deal with depression. There are still other ways to overcome depression without drugs. What are you? Please refer to the 9 ways below.
- Meditation
The thing that is needed when you experience depression is to get peace of heart and soul. One way is to do meditation.
A number of research results prove that meditation can prevent the recurrence of depression. The power of this meditation is like you are taking antidepressant drugs. Being able to make you feel more calm.
But meditation must be done consistently. Don't just do it when you need it. Make meditation your daily routine.
For those of you who are Muslims, doing dhikr and wirid are forms of meditation that are in accordance with the teachings. Memory is to train the heart and mouth more in remembering God.
Remind zikr as long as you move, then the heart will feel calmer
- Do Light Sports
Doing exercise regularly can not only make your body healthy. But it is also a way to deal with depression. Especially mild depression to moderate depression. Do this healthy routine every morning.
Why is it chosen morning? Because at that time the air was still quite fresh. The air has not been heavily contaminated with vehicle fumes.
Especially if you exercise in an area that still has lots of trees. There is a lot of fresh oxygen that can be breathed while exercising.
Sports do not have to be heavy. Walking around the residential complex is also quite helpful. If indeed your house is close to the park, you can also do a light jog there.
- Manage Food Intake
Consuming food can also reduce the level of someone's depression. Of course not just any food, but foods that contain selenium and high magnesium. Both of these ingredients have a useful effect to cure depression.
Selenium-containing foods include nuts, wheat, and tuna. While many foods that contain magnesium are chocolate, sunflower seeds, shellfish, and pumpkin seeds.
So, rutinkan eating foods that contain two types of minerals so that your depression level can decrease.
- Eager with Storytelling
Whatever things are weighing on your mind, lighten up by telling a story. Depression can occur because you keep the burden of the mind alone.
Share with your friends or friends. Thus, the existing burden can begin to decrease.
Storytelling is also a way to expel the negative aura and energy due to depression. You can tell the load that is in mind step by step.
Tell me what you really want to tell. If something still wants to be saved, please save it first.
When you are ready to release everything, just do it. Because keeping the load for too long is obviously not healthy for your soul.
But remember, tell someone who you really trust. Those who can lock and save your entire story are only for themselves.
- Consumption of Fish Oil
In addition to foods that contain selenium and magnesium, people with depression are also encouraged to eat foods with omega-3 fatty acids.
A number of studies have shown that a lack of a certain amount of fatty acid intake can trigger depression.
Salmon meat is a significant contributor to omega-3 fatty acids. You can also get the same kind of content in tuna albacore and herring. But the last two types of fish seem to be quite difficult for you to get in Indonesia.
- Vacation
For those of you who are active on social media, you must know the term "less picnic".
The term raised by the Mayor of Bandung, Ridwan Kamil, refers to those who often think too much so that the comments that appear often are strange and not in context.
Looking at things in a heavy and complicated way is a characteristic of the emergence of depression.
Therefore, how to overcome the symptoms of depression as above is to walk more often, aka on vacation. With a vacation, the heart and mind will usually be calmer and happier.
No wonder in every long holiday, many people in Jakarta choose to go out of town. They go to places that can be used as a means of reducing stress levels while working.
Stress that is allowed to go on will turn into acute depression. Avoid more on vacation.
- Writing Journal
Writing is an activity that has various benefits. Especially to be a therapy for those whose hearts and minds are upset and depressed.
Write the mood you feel in a diary. Try to write it every day so that the atmosphere can still be recorded properly.
How to overcome depression through writing this much recommended by experts. No need to be able to write well in doing this therapy. Because your writing is not for other people to read.
Just write down what is in your mind and heart, then save it well. Simple, right?
However, write when you are free. Do not force writing a journal when you are preoccupied with work. Because your mind and heart are definitely not maximally shed when writing.
- Consumption of Turmeric
Indonesia which is rich in natural resources turns out to store food sources that can reduce levels of depression. Precisely is turmeric.
The cooking ingredients that produce this yellow color according to the results of the study have high benefits for reducing the symptoms of depression.
- Trying to Tawaqal
There is no place to lean the best besides God. Send all the life you live to only the One True God. Make sure that God always gives the best to all of his servants.
By surrendering everything to the provisions that have been outlined, your mind will not be burdened by life's problems. Even the heart will be more peaceful and calm.
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