What to do if depression causes insomnia every night?

Updated on psychology 2024-06-24
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Depression and insomnia can be managed independently or in combination with depression.

    According to the understanding of life instinct psychology, depression is caused by major life and psychological difficulties encountered by individuals, and the main manifestations are decreased appetite, decreased interest, reduced activities, and insomnia. If depression is resolved, these manifestations will gradually disappear.

    The insomnia caused by depression is mainly due to the fact that the person concerned is too preoccupied, and the normal sleep is affected by the thoughts and cannot sleep, coupled with the further impact of anxiety and irritability, which makes people unable to fall asleep normally.

    The solution is to deeply communicate the troubles encountered by the individual, analyze and guide the parties to look at these problems reasonably, these worries are not affected, and they are no longer anxious and irritable, and they can sleep normally.

    The above is the method of dealing with depression and insomnia together, and the following is the method of dealing with insomnia independently, that is, if the mind is not resolved for a while, if the person concerned can understand the relationship between the mind and depression and insomnia, he can also achieve the effect of overcoming insomnia through self-regulation.

    1.Seek medical attention and tell the doctor about your insomnia, and the doctor will decide whether you need to arrange medication to help you sleep;

    2.Exercise, maintain a certain amount of aerobic exercise, regardless of whether you are mentally sleepy or not, first make your body sleepy, so that your body feels that it is time to rest. Helps with sleep.

    3.You can find some hypnotic meditation, white noise**, brainwaves** to listen intently. Or you can look for something that you were bored and sleepy when you were a child. For example, history documentaries, physical chemistry classes**.

    Introduce an app called small sleep with all kinds of sounds, the sound of wind and rain, the sound of reading, there is training to do psychological relaxation, there is sleep training, I sometimes try it when I can't sleep, I think it's very useful at the moment, I hope it can help you, come on, and defeat the devil of depression.

    Insomnia is one of the main complications of depression, if you want to have insomnia, you must first of all**depression, you can take pantoprazole, sulpiride and other drugs appropriately**, and teach you several TCM external treatments that help you sleep, which may help. 1.Baihui acupoint tap:

    Use the tip of the thumb of the right hand to tap on the Baihui acupoint, and immediately switch to the thumb abdomen rotation after the local feeling of heavy swelling and numbness, and so on for about 30 seconds, and then use the palm to take the Baihui acupoint as the axis, and press and rotate evenly for 30 seconds. 2.Tianmen Cave Opening:

    The two thumbs are attached to the Yintang acupoint, and the remaining fingers are fixed on both sides of the head. The left thumb first pushes vertically upwards from the Yintang acupoint, and then pushes the upper star acupoint through the Shenting acupoint, and then the two thumbs are lower left and upper right, and upper left and lower right are pushed alternately at the same time. The technique is from slow to fast, from light to heavy, and repeatedly pushes for about 1 minute.

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