The human body is accustomed to heat not only physically, but also psychologically. Whatever the summer, it is always perceived as a holiday, rest, vacation. At this time of the year, people become mobile, active, their mood and general tone of the body increase, while in autumn the activity drops sharply: the body prepares for a meeting with the cold and begins to work to save its own resources. Starting from September, the day decreases, and the lack of light directly affects biological rhythms, which slow down. Also, the body is affected by a decrease in temperature. These circumstances cannot be called joyful, so the mood is rapidly falling.
Autumn blues is a fairly typical psychological state of many people. Usually, this is due to a decrease in the emotional background of a person. In addition, appetite, sleep patterns change, motivation for activity disappears. And what exactly is happening to us, and what are the reasons for this condition? We asked Anna Tolstova, a medical psychologist at the Stavropol Regional Psychiatric Hospital No. 1, this question.
- Signs of the autumn blues can appear in any person. In fact, autumn is just another season of the year and there are many reasons not to get discouraged! So, what is needed in order to calmly endure the period of the change of seasons? First, it's important to find something you enjoy. I recommend making a list of things that you definitely need to complete during the autumn period. Then every morning a person will get up, knowing that new achievements and discoveries await ahead. Thus, you can avoid sad thoughts, replenish your knowledge base and spend time usefully.
Secondly, you should pay attention to the daily routine. It does not matter that the daylight hours have been reduced. The body still needs strength. In order to stay in a cheerful mood, you need to get enough sleep and not ignore the rest, especially if you have to solve complex tasks at work. In the autumn period, it is important to reconsider your diet, eliminating fatty and heavy foods. Autumn is harvest time, so fresh fruits and vegetables are in abundance on store shelves, markets and private outlets. To defeat the blues, you should go in for sports - this will help maintain a good mood and get rid of negative emotions.
I would also advise changing the space around you. Let me explain: you can bring more bright colors into your home, wardrobe, food, such an environment will not allow you to succumb to depression. What else matters? Don't neglect communication. Gather more often with friends or close relatives: you can arrange themed tea parties, outings with a picnic, visit exhibitions and theaters, and go on an excursion to a neighboring city. Spleen is a seasonal concept, and if you pull yourself together, you can be surprised to note: autumn is over, a bad mood has not appeared.
Overcoming the autumn spleen is not so difficult. To do this, we recommend eight simple tricks.
1. Get a cat
Have you long dreamed of a purring warm lump? Here's a sign for you! A cat is the best cure for any sadness, and without a cat, life is not at all the same, especially in autumn.
If you prefer to relax under a warm checkered blanket, a purring mini-tiger will complement this measured idyll in the best possible way. And if you take a cat from a shelter, karma will be favorable to you until the end of autumn. Good deeds warm better than any scarf.If you are an active and active hipster, get your cat Instagram, because everyone loves cats.
2. Buy a stupid scarf
Speaking of scarves. Who said it's time to change into gloomy brown things in autumn? The dimmer outside the window, the more fun the wardrobe should be. Buy a beautiful, bright, crazy, soft and expensive scarf! Let it be the main accessory of autumn. Such that passers-by turn around with a frozen question in their eyes: “Did I really just see THIS?”. And silently envied your courage and carelessness a little.
3. Give gifts
Do you love receiving gifts? Everyone loves! Why not make a loved one happy with an inexpensive but pleasant trifle? To present cute mittens to an eternally freezing girlfriend, to present a new cup to an employee instead of his old one with a gap, to hand over a bouquet of yellow leaves to passer-by girls. And be sure to write your mom a postcard about how you love her and that she is the best mom in the world.
Dayne Topkin/Unsplash.com4. Boil (and drink) mulled wine
Getting drunk in sadness is not a good idea. But a glass of mulled wine in the fall is so good that we couldn't resist adding it to this list. Take a thick, sweet, fragrant, slightly tart red wine, cut ripe citrus fruits, simmer the drink over low heat in an enamel saucepan. Be sure to add a few cinnamon sticks and cardamom. Buy a couple of those same mulled wine glasses and drink with a sweetheart person.
5. Watch stupid talk shows
It is not customary to talk about this, but if you turn on a talk show and start watching with one eye, then time will fly by unnoticed. Unpleasant thoughts will disappear from the head along with sorrows, and the hand itself will reach out to turn on the next video.
But the next day the gym! And arthouse.Once a week, in the saddest moments, it's even great to order a huge pizza and turn on stupid tear-jerking programs.
6. Take pictures among the yellow leaves
The right way, tested for years and generations. It is better to take a professional photographer for a photo shoot, or at least a person with straight arms and a good camera. Dress brightly, find a huge park with beautiful forged lanterns and benches. Collect a bouquet of leaves, throw them up, fool around like a child and have fun. Put the result of the photo shoot on the avatar in social networks, anger the snobs with this.
7. Do Surya Namaskara
A scary name, but nothing illegal in it. This is just a set of exercises that awakens, invigorates and energizes for the whole day better than any coffee. Perform it immediately after waking up, drink a glass of warm water with lemon. After that, you will be ready for a positive perception of the gloomiest weather.
Christopher Campbell/Unsplash.com 8. Drink cocoa with marshmallows
Heavy artillery in case all else fails. Not a single spleen has resisted cocoa yet. Pour a chocolate drink with snow-white, slightly melted marshmallows into a new red cup, and you are guaranteed a good mood. It is best to fix the fight against autumn spleen with a sweet chocolate-marshmallow kiss.
Bright autumn to you with unforgettable impressions. Don't forget to take pictures of your best moments!
And what are your ways of dealing with the autumn blues?
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It's autumn now, it's gloomy, cold and damp outside. Of the entertainment for ordinary people, there are only books and TV (if you can afford to break away in mid-November to Mexico on a sunny beach, then you can no longer read), going to the cinema and to a pizzeria on weekends, chatting with friends, usually online . Of course, the New Year will come very soon, and the mood will improve dramatically, but for now, psychologists give us advice on how to overcome the autumn blues (depression is a disease and is treated exclusively with medication, after a doctor's appointment). I thought, what will happen if we really put all these tips into practice and will the autumn blues remain next to us?Council the first. Be sure to walk outside for an hour before bed every day. It’s better not to do some household chores and don’t watch a series, but be sure to go for a walk.
The respected author who gave this advice probably lives somewhere in the shady streets of Italy, where in autumn it is warm, light and there is some body of water nearby (for example, Lake Garda). Or maybe the author of this advice lives in a cozy cottage in Sochi and, before going to bed, wanders around his yard, well fenced with a high fence.
Now let's transfer this advice to real life. You return from work at 7-8 pm, it is already pitch dark and rare, and in some places even large sleet cheerfully sprinkles your chilled top. Having cooked dinner at home, checking the lessons of the tomboys, somewhere around 11 pm you scream:
- It's time for me to go for a walk! I have !
And having sent her husband, frightened to death, to watch TV, you begin to get ready to go for a walk. Putting on a hat and padded jacket (so as not to be robbed), taking with you an ax and a bat (besides being in a good mood, I would also like to stay alive), a bottle of vodka (even if, like me, you don’t drink at all), to keep warm by tying a lantern on your forehead (dark) you, sniffing loudly, go out for a mandatory walk before going to bed. And then you darkly cut circles around the house, lightly swinging your ax (so as not to freeze), dimly illuminating the pavement at your feet with a trembling flashlight. An hour later, exactly at midnight, like Cinderella, you return home. And so every day.
The next day, you read in the News, "on Mira Street, apartments have fallen in price four times, because of a strange person with an ax walking around the yard at night."
Psychologists turned out to be right: there will be no trace of the blues, either for you or for your neighbors.
Go to any social place and meet new people: share your problem and let them help you
You go to the neighborhood grocery store and start sharing. First, approach the seller sitting at the checkout and, having pushed aside the still live line, stick to her ears.
It seems to me that I have . My body aches, my teeth itch, I'm in a bad mood, and I have a rash on my chin. I don't think anyone loves me.
- Yes, why love you, you tattered cat! - shout already tired, stunned and sweaty buyers at the checkout. - Go for a walk for an hour before going to bed! - they are already yelling, at the limit of their voice capabilities.
The psychologists turned out to be right: there was no trace of the blues, and the man stopped drinking from the bus stop and left for Tibet, as he was sure that he had met face to face with the devil himself.
: especially those who have been on a diet before
This is advice so advice! A feast for the eyes! In short, you go to the store and buy everything that you could not afford before: cakes, rolls with jam, sweets, pies and donuts. Then come home and sweep it all away in one evening, munching loudly with pleasure. The mood will noticeably improve, especially when a week later your face is covered with acne from sweets, after two weeks you won’t fit into any jeans, and after a month your teeth will fall. And just in time for the New Year, you will come up in all its glory: a cheerful, cheerful barge with bad skin and the remaining two front teeth.
Psychologists turned out to be right, what an autumn blues now, now it’s just tin looking at you from the mirror and eating up another bun.
Keep smiling
Morning, gloomy tram passengers sniffle and cough, the conductor sells tickets, a flea market, and you smile all the time, i.e. all one and a half hours from the moment we entered the crowded tram and until the moment when even the driver escaped from the empty tram to call you an ambulance for psychiatric help.
Having explained to the cheerful doctors that you are just “on the positive side”, you enter the office and, without stopping constantly smiling, go to the boss. He, turning purple in the face, reprimands for the work, and you smile. He is already shouting with a good obscenity: “Stop smiling!”, And you are smiling. The chief fell under the table and wheezed from a heart attack, and you are still smiling, calling the doctors.
The psychologists turned out to be right, everyone is having fun: you, colleagues, but not the boss, and since no one likes management, everyone is satisfied.
autumn blues how to deal with it and what to do so as not to fall into a deep depression on the eve of the new year?
November has already arrived, the time of the autumn blues has come. Runet groans from melancholy and sadness. Articles on psychology vying to give useful advice, and it seems to you that there is nothing better than taking time off from work, wrapping yourself in a warm blanket, listening to old sad songs and watching old sad movies.
1. Sadness came up, well, I’ll go, I’ll take a walk ...
The option of spending time at home only at first glance seems cozy. Give it a couple of days, no more, and then on the most dull and not sunny days. Scientists argue that the state of melancholy and apathy is quite a physiological symptom caused by a lack of sun, which contributes to the development of " happiness hormone» serotonin. And if there is not a cloud in the sky, feel free to go out into the fall. Dress according to the weather and walk until your inner child wakes up inside, which does not care about rain or snow, which is joyful only because it exists.
2. Lemons, tangerines and other bananas
Passion for the use of products containing antioxidants, in fact, it also has a completely physiological need to reduce the oxidation of the body, which leads to various diseases and early aging. Treat yourself to a variety of colorful fruits and exotic vegetables. And raise your mood, and get enough of natural vitamins, and slow down aging.
3. It's great that we are all here today ...
Communicate at this time to the maximum, but with those who bring joy and evoke positive emotions. And even if in the evening you don’t feel like leaving your warm cozy house in the autumn gloom, force yourself to do it, perhaps your friends also fell into a rut. The joy of communication is the most of all that will remain in the memory of the outgoing autumn, and in the near future it will allow you to forget for a while that you need to mope.
4. I see the goal, I believe in myself ...
Autumn is the time when we have not yet cooled down from summer emotions, goals and tasks that we solved against the backdrop of summer, sun, warmth and joy. And what prevents you from setting yourself a new task and solving it with perseverance and diligence? And there is time before the New Year, and a new activity will perfectly distract from bad thoughts and sad films.
5. And laugh...
Certainly for viewing - funny programs, funny videos, for reading - new jokes and humoresques. The same psychologists say that you can deceive the brain if you smile through force. Your brain, having received the command to purse your lips in a smile, will think that you are actually having fun and will give the command to produce the appropriate hormones.
And, most importantly, remember that all this minor is temporary. December will come, the ground will be covered with fluffy white snow, supermarkets will deliver fresh tangerines and preparations for the New Year will begin at full speed. And there until the summer - at hand!
So the warm, bright and colorful summer is over. “A sad time, eyes charm” ... This line from the classic poems most accurately characterizes the aching melancholy that we experience in the last autumn month. In anticipation of prolonged cold weather, many of us are prone to bouts of blues and apathy. Psychologists say that such manifestations are especially characteristic of sensitive and emotional people, who subtly feel the biorhythms of nature, leaving for winter rest.
How to overcome despondency, sadness, melancholy, negative thoughts and tune in a positive way, without resorting to medication - antidepressants? Here is what experienced psychologists advise their patients complaining of autumn depression.
Walk outdoors as much as possible
Nothing “winds the head” and relieves stagnation like being in the air. During hiking and playing sports, endorphins are produced in the body, which are responsible for mood and emotional background. Take an hour-long walk at your own pace every day, inhaling the delicate aroma of autumn leaves and rain, and in a week your condition will improve significantly.
Walk with friends and alone, with children and pets, in the autumn forest, nearby park or square, be sure to visit the botanical garden and admire exotic plants and autumn flowers.
Rest your soul on the desert alleys, enjoying peace and tranquility. Feed the pigeons while watching the lively birds snatch the bread crumb. Immerse yourself in the state of contemplation of nature, which has been and remains the best healer.
Devote a weekend or vacation to your favorite hobby
If you are a fan of "silent hunting", then it's time to go to the forest for mushrooms. Healing air, saturated with phytoncides of coniferous plants, improves the condition of the respiratory and nervous systems. And the discovery of mushrooms hidden in the most unexpected places, causing genuine delight, is the best cure for depression.
There is no better rest and relaxation for fans of fishing than gatherings with a fishing rod near the river and lake and throwing spinning from the shore or boat. Go fishing with friends or on your own, enjoy the autumn bite, at the same time delighting the household with tasty and healthy prey - the catch.
Have a picnic in the country, kindle a fire, grill meat and barbecue, devote time to active ball games, badminton, a flying saucer with the kids, ride down a hill or swing on a swing, remembering your childhood. All this time you will communicate with your loved ones and relax morally, freeing yourself from stress and negativity, and the invigorating autumn air will be a pleasant bonus that improves your well-being and cleanses you spiritually.
Fans of bath procedures are advised to visit the sauna or the Russian steam room. Steaming with birch or oak is not only relaxing, but also guaranteed to bring positive emotions. And even better if you combine a trip to the country, fishing and a visit to the bath. A short rest in a sanatorium, at a camp site or in a spa center outside the city will help get rid of the blues.
aromatherapy
Did you know that inhaling the healing vapors of some essential oils relieves depression and relaxes? Saturate the air in your bedroom, living and working spaces with the help of an aroma lamp with the smells of citrus, lavender, juniper, rosemary, geranium, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, patchouli. Wear kuramic pendants with these scents.
Strengthen the body and nerves with B vitamins, which are rich in honey and bee pollen
Significant assistance to the nervous, cardiovascular and immune systems is provided by a monthly intake of bee pollen (bee pollen). It contains a lot of B vitamins that improve the conduction of nerve impulses, support the cognitive functions of the brain and 
responsible for the beauty of the skin, hair and nails.
The product is also rich in carotenoids, other vitamins and vitamin-like compounds, trace elements, enzymes, antioxidants, amino acids, phospholipids, nucleic acids, phenolic elements and substances with antibacterial properties.
Take every morning, on an empty stomach, 20-30 minutes before breakfast, a teaspoon of pollen, along with the same amount of natural honey, dissolving the product in your mouth until completely dissolved. After a monthly intake, take a break of 3-4 weeks and, if necessary, repeat the course in winter or spring.
Enrich your diet with antidepressant foods
According to experienced nutritionists, in the fall, you should definitely include a number of products in the daily menu, the biological substances of which stimulate the production of serotonin - the "hormone of joy" - by the body. We are talking about bananas, grapes, ice cream, dark chocolate, nuts, marmalade, dried fruits, seeds, halva, bee products - honey, royal jelly, bee bread.
How do you deal with autumn bouts of melancholy? Share your recipes in the comments below. Let your mood be equally rosy at any time of the year!
The information is provided for informational purposes only. Any treatment, like diets, should be carried out only as prescribed by a specialist and strictly under his supervision.
