Depression, a disease that is not recognized by the public, affects countless people. According to WHO statistics and speculation, there are currently more than 350 million people suffering from this disease. Even more frightening is that many people think that depression is just an emotional emotion or because they think too much.
"The reason to live", this book is a depressed person who tells his own experience of depression in a way of memory, and also shares some attitudes towards life, and also enthusiastically shares 40 tips for a healthy life that the author thinks. This book not only tells you what it's like to suffer from depression in another more emotional way, but also tells readers to accept their "strangeness". The author points out that "normality is actually subjective and there is no standard. There are 7 billion people on the earth, so there are 7 billion normals. "
? The first half of the chapter feels confused, and it is a bit difficult to sort out the logic of the chapter, but this does not affect reading. What you can feel is the state and feelings almost expressed by patients with depression in this half. The poet [MelissaBroder] once wrote Weibo: Which fool calls it "depression"? Why not say "My chest is full of bats, and I see ghosts"? Another author's description makes me feel how little we know about depression. "The more we study depression, the more we will realize our ignorance about it. 90% is still a secret. " Our understanding of these distant stars even exceeds our understanding of the working mechanism of the brain. The brain is the only thing in the universe that can think about the whole universe. On the other hand, the author describes the feeling of suffering from depression as "you are at the bottom of the sea, you are on fire ..." and "there is a fireball in your head that others can't see".
? Perhaps we really know too little about depression, which is accompanied by depression, physical discomfort, anxiety, delusional persecution and so on. If we can experience the following feelings, we may really feel a little suffocated:
? It is difficult to walk from home to shops hundreds of meters away.
? When you look at the bathroom door, you feel that when you open the door, there is a person's head on the ground. When I sleep, I always see someone staring at me outside the window.
? You want to kill yourself, but you think it's as difficult to get a knife as to overturn a train.
? I kept an action for a long time and couldn't move. The food has been stuck in my stomach. Even after four hours, it seems to be stuck in my stomach.
? Lying in bed, even if someone quietly takes the pillow away, his head hangs down and seems to lean against the pillow.
The second half of the content seems to be talking about my attitude and life after I slowly got out of depression. What I like best is that the author collects the reasons why netizens feel alive. The netizen's answer is "friends, books to read, cats and dogs, the world is more empty after death …", which makes me feel very warm. Maybe each of us has a reason to stick to it in a hard life. In other content introductions, running, yoga, meditation, reading, writing and traveling introduced by the author are all ways to fight depression, which makes people feel that life is very interesting. Finally, the author shared 40 healthy living skills and excerpts to encourage himself.
1. When happiness appears, enjoy it.
Drink slowly, don't gobble it up.
3. Be gentle with yourself. Work less and rest more.
You can't change the past. This is the basic physical principle.
5. Be careful of Tuesday and October.
6. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was right: "Reading and writing are by far the most nutritious forms of meditation discovered by human beings."
7. Listen more and talk less.
8. Don't feel guilty when doing nothing. Maybe work is more harmful to the world than doing nothing. But it can perfect your laziness and make it aware.
9. Be aware that you are breathing.
10. Try to discover beauty whenever and wherever you are. A face, a poem, clouds outside the window, graffiti, wind field. Beauty can purify the soul.
1 1. Hate is a meaningless emotion. Just like eating scorpions to punish you.
12. Go for a run and do yoga.
Take a bath before noon.
14. Remind yourself how big the universe is. Seize every opportunity to feel the vastness and remoteness, which will make you see your own smallness.
15. kindness.
16. Realize that ideas are just ideas. If you think the idea is unreasonable, argue with it, even if you can't find the reason. You are an observer of your thoughts, not a victim.
17. Don't watch TV aimlessly. Don't go to social networking sites aimlessly. Realize what you are doing and why you are doing it. Don't ignore TV, you should pay more attention to it, so you will watch less. Unrestrained entertainment will distract your attention.
18. Sit down, lie down, don't move, don't do anything. Observe and listen to the voice of your head. Instead of judging what's going on in your head, let nature take its course, just like Snow White in Frozen.
19. Don't worry too much.
20. Look at these trees, approach them and plant them. Because trees are great. )
2 1. Listen to the yoga instructor on YouTube, "Walk like kissing the earth with your feet."
22. Life, love, let go.
23. The mathematics of wine is a power operation. The more you drink, the more you want to drink. If it is difficult for you to stop at one cup, it is even more impossible to stop at three cups. Addition is multiplication.
24. Be careful of that gap. The gap between where you are now and where you want to go. If you think about it, the bigger the gap, the more you may fall in.
25. Read a book, don't try to finish it. Just reading. Enjoy every word, sentence and paragraph. Don't expect it to end, or never.
At the deepest level, there is no medicine in the universe that makes you feel better than being kind to others.
27. Listen to what Hamlet, the most famous depression patient in literature, said to Rosencrantz and Gierden Stern: "There is no distinction between good and evil in the world, but it is determined by thought."
Allow others to love you. Believe this love. Live for them, even if you feel meaningless.
You don't need the world to understand you. It's okay. Some people will never really understand what they have not experienced, but some people will. Be grateful to those who understand you.
30. jules verne wrote Infinite Life [Illustration]. This is a world of love and affection, as vast as the sea. If we immerse ourselves in it, we will find infinity and the space we need for survival.
3 1. 3 am is not the time to try to sort out your life.
32. Remember: you are not surprised. You are a human being, and all your actions and feelings conform to nature, because you are an animal in essence. You are natural. You are an ape. You live in this world, and the world lives in your heart. Everything is connected.
Don't believe in good or bad, win or lose, win or lose, high tide and low tide. In your lowest and highest place, whether you are happy or desperate, calm or angry, there is a consistent core "you" This "you" is the most important thing
Don't worry about the time lost in despair. After overcoming despair, the value of time will double.
35. Be transparent to yourself. Build a glass room for your mind. Observe.
36. Read Emily Dickinson, graham greene, italo calvino and Maya Angelou [Illustration]. Look at whatever you want, look at it. Books are possibilities, not retreats. When you have no choice, they give you a chance. Every book is a home for the displaced mind.
37. On sunny days, you can be outdoors.
Remember: the key to life on earth is change. Cars will rust, pages will turn yellow, technology will become obsolete, caterpillars will become butterflies, night will become day, and depression will dissipate.
When you feel too busy to have a rest, you need to find time to have a rest most.
40. Be brave, be strong, breathe and live. You will thank yourself today.