Psychological treatment methods for depression help you face depression correctly

Depression is a common disease among modern men. As the core of social work, men often face psychological pressure from all aspects. Lack of understanding and support from friends, family, and colleagues, as well as a bad mental state, can easily lead to negative emotions and depression. Mild depression is not easy to attract the attention of patients, so patients with mild depression can use some self-psychological treatment methods!

Steps/Methods

1. Supportive psychotherapy, also known as general psychotherapy, commonly uses techniques such as listening, explaining, guiding, venting, reassuring, encouraging and supporting.

2. Psychodynamic therapy, also known as psychoanalytic therapy. The main purpose of this treatment is to help patients recognize the subconscious content of depression so as to control their emotional symptoms and abnormal behaviors, and at the same time better deal with the problems they encounter.

3. Cognitive therapy for depression. The goal of cognitive therapy is to help patients rebuild their cognition and correct their biases, including incorrect interpretations of past experiences and incorrect predictions of the future, helping patients with depression to clarify some issues and correct their incorrect assumptions.

4. Behavioral therapy for depression. This type of therapy focuses on the patient's abnormal behavior, rather than the patient's subjective experience. It is based on the theory of conditioned reflexes. Through methods such as keeping a diary, participating in recreational activities, relaxation training, and improving social skills, depressive patients can establish new reflex patterns, both behaviorally and psychologically.

5. Interpersonal psychotherapy is a short-term psychotherapy method lasting 3-4 months. The purpose of interpersonal psychotherapy is mainly to improve the patient's interpersonal communication function. It is suitable for patients with mild and severe depression.

6. Marriage and family therapy. Marriage therapy is also called couple therapy. It is a type of therapy that focuses on the relationship between couples and marital problems. Family therapy takes the family as the unit, and all family members must participate.