This type of human condition is quite common in our time and is well known to everyone. Depression can be determined by the appearance and behavior of a person - fatigue, apathy, an almost complete lack of motivation and faith in oneself and the future.

We have all experienced blues, boredom and apathy. And if you feel this condition for only a few days, then it is not dangerous and is generally considered normal. This is bad mood. You can wait it out, gather your thoughts and move on with your life. Bad moods happen to everyone.

But if this state drags on for weeks, months and years, then here you need to pay attention and consider this state in more detail. And the first thing to start with is to find out the reasons for its appearance. Here we can already talk about an affective disorder that requires psychological and medical correction.

Why does depression appear?

Divorce, separation and separation from loved ones, death of relatives, illness, long stay in critical difficult situations, constant failure in business and personal relationships, condemnation of a person by relatives and significant people, lack of love and care, burdened heredity, fears are the causes of the disease .

Depression can come in adolescence. During this period, there is an active reassessment of values, strong internal changes, a change in worldview and worldview.

Sometimes a person does not have enough resources to cope with such a period, and he gives up. A person creates the belief that nothing else will ever work out for him in life, the world is too aggressive and cruel, it is stronger, there is no point in fighting. The world becomes dangerous, there is a feeling of powerlessness and a basic distrust of people and everything that happens. A person feels inferior, unnecessary, lonely, useless.

At some point, somewhere deep inside, there is a breakdown, a breakdown of faith in oneself and the future, deep disappointment sets in, loss of the meaning of existence and the desire for success. So, along with the disappearance of faith, the future also disappears. Depression is a loss of faith and a break with the future. No future, no life. There is a stop in development and a slow extinction of the personality. The energy tone drops so much that it is difficult for a person to leave the house.

Against the background of a depressive disorder, phobias and panic attacks may worsen.

This is the most difficult condition that requires not only medical treatment, but spiritual. I have met many people who have been on medication for depression for years. The pills only drowned out the pain, temporarily relieving the symptoms, but did not eliminate the cause of depression, which was hidden in the person himself: in his thoughts, feelings, beliefs. Therefore, if you are faced with this problem, do not try to solve it only with medicines. This requires high-quality and in-depth work of a specialist psychologist.

How can you help yourself get out of depression?

1) You should know that there is a way out of depression and other life crises, always has been and will be. And if you don't see a way out, it doesn't mean there isn't one. Human resources are huge, you just need to be able to get to them and discover the source of life.

2) Go deep into your inner world. The solution is hidden there. You are not just a piece of meat on legs. You are something limitless, multidimensional. Inside a person there is his Intuition, the Higher Self - the very power that can lift from his knees. It is she who gives a burst of inspiration, helps a person to dream and create what he really wants, to make breakthroughs and exploits, to open a "second wind".

Allow yourself to believe in the existence of this power. Remember those moments when you had insights, sudden premonitions, prophetic dreams, signs of fate and much more, when you just did something, knowing that it was right. And you didn't look for any evidence, there wasn't a single drop of doubt.

The state of harmony and integrity is contact with the Higher Self, with that source of life within.

Children come into the world in contact with intuition, the higher self, but in the process of development, being saturated with the negative atmosphere of fears and beliefs of the social environment, they forget their deep source of guidance, losing their inner core and support. But it can be returned. Because you know the way back, you remember that state of serenity and deep faith, you remember it not only consciously, but also unconsciously. Your body and senses hold this healing state, waiting for you to access it.

3) Throw away your logical reasoning, and eternal regrets about the past. Sit down and think about what you really want in life? What does your soul want? Because desires coming from the heart will lead you to success! Only then will your source of strength open up and help you reach your goals. There is a future - there is life.

4) Write a letter to your Higher Self. And read it every day with love and faith. For example: “Thank you for being you, that you love me and help me find harmony. Thank you for taking care of me and helping me find my way to health. I give you the freedom to develop and make me happy. I love you!" You can write your letter, but it must come from the heart and evoke warm feelings. I won’t be surprised if small, and maybe big miracles begin to happen in your life from now on.

5) Plan for tomorrow. What will you do, how will you feel, what will you think about? Write it all down in your diary. Sit down every night and write down what positive happened today. Describe it in all colors, as brightly and lyrically as possible, only about the good! Create a daily routine. So it will be easier for the body to distribute and save resources.

6) Looking at yourself in the mirror, greet yourself with kind words and wish you success. Let this be a ritual at first, until you feel that you are experiencing joy from your own kindness and wishes.

7) Optimize your space. Do more of what you want and less of what you don't. Seek pleasure. Start small. Fulfill even the smallest and strangest desires, for example, to buy summer shoes in winter, or a pineapple at two in the morning, etc.

8) Create your image of health and try to try it on, that is, feel it with your whole body and soul. Imagine that you are already out of the crisis. How are you feeling? What do you think? What do you want to do? Try it on every day and wear it with pleasure.

9) Let sleep be your guide. Allow yourself to sleep more. Sleep will naturally restore you.

10) Seek help from a specialist.

And now I turn to family and friends who want to help people in a state of depression.

Rules of communication and behavior with people in depressive states.

1) Do not demand from a person what he cannot do. In a state of depression, it is very difficult to stir up a person, because there is no desire to even take care of oneself, one does not want anything, nothing pleases. Therefore, do not scold him, do not make him guilty, do not press. Otherwise, you will only develop in him an even stronger sense of guilt and self-loathing.

2) Always try to talk about the near bright future. For example: “Tomorrow we will go with you to buy curtains and hang them in the kitchen. It will be cozy and beautiful in the house. All the family will be happy and you will like it too, you'll see." “We all go out of town on weekends. Let's take a walk in the forest. There are now such pleasant smells, squirrels run underfoot, you can feed them. They will be glad to see you." Since a person does not have his own future, he lives only in the present, your task is to help him see the future, at least tomorrow. It seems like trifles, but it is with them that the way out of the crisis begins.

3) Help the person to be needed. Turn to him for help, ask for advice, praise in order to raise self-esteem and switch thoughts to activity.
Introduce something new into the environment in the room where the depressed person lives, give this person small gifts, offer to update the wardrobe. Take a trip.

4)Believe in the person. With your confidence, you will give him the strength to live on and rise from his knees.

I would like to highlight situations when depression is so deep that a person closes in on himself, can go into illusions, dreams, unrealistic fantasies, for example, computer games. People quit their jobs, forget their family, children, friends. They do not want to hear anything, change, they are comfortable in their illusory world. The requests of relatives are ignored, the person does not want to go to a specialist. In this case, it is almost impossible to help. The only thing that can save in such a situation is prayers.

If, nevertheless, you understand that the person is listening to you, then all is not lost. It is necessary to instill in a person the belief that he will succeed. And for this he needs to be offered a choice. “You have two paths. Or you move down very quickly and easily. There is nothing below, only emptiness. Or now we are moving up together with you. On this path, you will have to work a little. But everything is waiting for you - a new harmonious future, new people, love, success. I will always be by your side, we will walk together. We will master everything. I know for sure it's worth it. Believe me. Many people got up from their knees, and you will succeed.” One way or another, the future that a person must choose is prescribed in these paths. If there is even a drop of hope inside him, he will choose the way up. Maybe this conversation will be repeated. But one way or another, words of support must sound with power, with deep faith, so that your feelings are transferred to your opponent.

And so, here I reflected exemplary actions in a situation of depression.

But I ask you not to forget that in addition to instructions for action, it is advisable to contact a specialist and make the exit process more fruitful and faster. Because the work requires special techniques and professional approaches.

After reflecting on this article, you can figure out what mood is and why it is sometimes bad, how it is classified and what methods you can use to improve your mood.

In our vocabulary, such phrases very often flash: good, high spirits or bad mood. Let's define what a mood is.

There are many definitions for it, but we will choose the most understandable:

Mood is a state of mind, emotional mood, a form of life perception, the general state of our experiences. It often changes depending on our attitude to various situations, life attitudes and temperament - a type of higher nervous activity. Mood has a corresponding effect on human activity.

It can change even for no apparent reason, but still there are certain life situations that most often cause a bad mood.

Waiting for a baby

During pregnancy, a woman can become emotional, easily vulnerable, irritable. She often has tears in her eyes, she is offended by everyone at home, because she is afraid of misunderstanding.

Hormonal changes also play a role in mood swings

The onset of pregnancy changes the hormonal background of a woman, everything in her body changes and she needs to adapt to a new status. Often women have a bad mood at the beginning and end of pregnancy, when toxicosis torments.

How to deal with it?

From the first days, as soon as a woman found out that she was going to become a mother, she needed to change a lot in her life: she needed to work less and give up bad habits, and relax more in the fresh air. Physical activity and healthy sleep are very important for her. She should avoid stressful situations and be balanced. All these measures will invariably improve her well-being and mood. But from time to time, she may need the help of specialists so that the pregnancy proceeds calmly and the birth is easier.

Why is it always bad at heart?

Yes, it happens to us. Suddenly optimism evaporates somewhere and does not care at all. This is what we call a bad mood. But in medicine there are such concepts as depression and apathy, which are quite difficult to defeat on your own. Here you will have to resort to the help of psychiatrists and psychotherapists. The mood associated with stress or grief is quite manageable with the help of psychotherapy. Endogenous depression and depressive syndrome within the framework of schizophrenia, organic brain damage and bipolar affective disorder are treated with long-term use of psychotropic drugs.

A very wise woman and the great Russian actress Faina Ranevskaya said: “Life is too short to spend it on diets, greedy men and a bad mood”

Therefore, getting up in the morning and feeling that there is complete dissatisfaction in your soul, try to tune in a positive way, change your attitude towards yourself and the current situation. Learn to support and calm yourself on your own, be more tolerant of people and external circumstances. Study yourself: your strengths and weaknesses, accept yourself for who you are. Remember the words of Faina Georgievna more often, who often had a very hard time in life, but who treated everything philosophically and with humor; and he could cheer up thousands of people.

If you can’t cope with a bad mood with beliefs alone, try to break away from the factors that traumatize your soul and stop dwelling on unresolved problems. Switch your attention to something more pleasant, and break problems into tasks and solve them as they come. Try to relax by taking a contrast shower or a bath with herbal decoctions. Make friends with joyful and happy people, attend entertainment events, watch comedies and read humorous novels.

In the morning the mood is worse than ever

The following factors may contribute to this:

• when you sleep in an unventilated room, sleep becomes restless, and the morning threatens to start in a bad mood.
• just before going to bed, you ate and were practically motionless for 7-8 hours. This leads to stagnation in the intestines, where the processes of fermentation and putrefaction occur, which negatively affects the entire body. Dinner should be no later than two hours before bedtime.
• perhaps you "overdid it" with caffeine, which causes a stressful state in the body (coffee, cocoa, chocolate and black tea). Control their use and move more - physical education perfectly relieves stressful conditions and improves mood.
• there are any bodily problems: foci of infections, chronic diseases, prolonged pain, hormonal imbalance, pathology of the nervous system. Visit doctors and follow their recommendations. Depression itself can exacerbate existing diseases and weaken the immune system. Therefore, it is necessary to treat a bad mood with a psychiatrist-psychotherapist in conjunction with the treatment of existing ailments.li>
• hypodynamia - lack of active movements in general. Movement is life filled with joy!

Mood worsens before menstruation

Some women experience premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and this is understandable as hormone levels fluctuate. Some people tolerate it easily, while others may have headaches, swelling, soreness of the joints and muscles, heaviness in the lower back, “swelling” of the chest, lethargy, strong heartbeat and “hot flashes”. All this leads to irritability and frequent mood swings.

With PMS, you can learn to control your condition by learning the methods of relaxation and self-regulation of the body. Research also shows that we ourselves exacerbate our condition. These can be smoking, coffee and alcohol abuse, malnutrition and lack of physical activity, lack of the right response to stress. You can undergo anti-stress therapy and master the techniques of self-hypnosis and relaxation at the consultations of a psychologist and psychotherapist.

Migraine and tachycardia, dizziness and weakness in PMS can cause magnesium deficiency. And fluid retention in the body, fatigue and sensitivity of the breast - vitamin B6 deficiency. Replace sweets with dried apricots and persimmons, prunes and figs, take magnesium and calcium supplements.

2-3 days before menstruation, if there is a tendency to pronounced premenstrual syndrome, coffee and chocolate should be taboo! Dramatically cut down on animal fats and all unnatural foods in your diet. All this destroys vitamin B6

Go in for dancing and sports - this will increase the production of endorphins in the blood, reduce pain and improve mood.

Depression before childbirth

Each woman may have her own prerequisites, but there are common factors leading to depression:

1. Fears associated with the upcoming birth.
2. Hormonal changes in the body.
3. Feeling of loss of control over your body.
4. Poor relationship with husband.
5. Fears due to lack of finances in the family.
6. Fear of changing the general rhythm of life in the near future.
7. Fear of harming the child.

Many consider this condition before childbirth to be the norm, but this can develop into postpartum depression, which will negatively affect the condition of the mother herself and her baby. Therefore, you need to try to get her out of this state. To do this, a woman needs the constant support of loved ones, meeting with friends and feasible loading with household chores. You need to tune in to more positive thoughts and gather your courage, because childbirth is a natural process, but also hard work. Be ready for it, and it will reward you with the best gift of fate - a child!

How to successfully deal with a bad mood?

In many situations, we have given you advice, but this is not always effective. It happens that a bad mood develops into a deep depression and then only contacting a psychiatrist or psychotherapist will help you.

You can not resort to self-medication - it can be life-threatening, trust the professionals who know how to help you. Usually in such cases, an antidepressant is used, which can only be selected by a doctor.

In Moscow, you can be examined and receive appropriate assistance at the Transfiguration clinic. Her main areas of activity are psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology. The clinic itself and its trained staff are conducive to the fastest recovery. The main emphasis here is on a drug-free approach, using psychotherapy and physiotherapy, hirudotherapy, reflexology, massage and manual therapy. This is an absolute plus in the treatment of neurotic depression. The clinic employs highly qualified psychotherapists and psychologists who have been helping patients to return to their normal lives for many years, using modern diagnostic methods and effective treatment.

Everyone is subject to mood swings. Some less often, some more often. Everyone is familiar with the situation when everything around is annoying, nothing pleases, the sun seems too bright, children are noisy, friends are intrusive, work is like hard labor. But this does not mean that the person himself is bad. It's just a bad mood.

But even if they say that someone spoiled the mood, this is far from the case. The reason lies within the person himself. He himself is responsible for what happens in his life. People are very fond of plunging into a depressing state and finding those who can sympathize, regret. Only this is not good enough. They can sympathize, regret, help with advice, but there will be no sense from this. Often a person simply justifies his laziness, inertia, lack of desire for something.

Bad mood. What to do in this case?

The very first thing to do is to identify it in its infancy. It is precisely when trouble occurs that this is the first seed that falls on the fertile soil of depression. In this case, it is very important how to look at this situation, how to evaluate it. Only the person himself can decide how to look at the problem and how to relate to it. If you throw out negativity in response to trouble, it will just fall on fertile ground, but if you try to be calm and laugh at the situation or even at your own mistake, then the grain will not germinate.

Good and bad mood. We listen to ourselves

First of all, you need to look inside yourself and understand what there can cause a threat to your mood. Listen to your feelings and sensations, to your soul. Only the person himself can understand what is wrong there, and find discomfort or doubts inside himself that can change his mood in the future. And in this case, you need to choose what you prefer - despondency or joy.

Sensitivity and observation is not an innate quality for everyone. Those who do not have them need to be developed with the help of special exercises and techniques. There are many personal trainings that specialists conduct in order to teach people to understand themselves and their feelings.

The reasons

Often the human body warns in advance that not everything is in order. A person wakes up in the morning and already feels that something is wrong. Why bad mood? In this case, you need to try to remember what happened before going to bed. Psychologists and nutritionists agree that a hearty dinner before bedtime is harmful, and often after that a person wakes up irritable in the morning. In this case, food should be taken just two hours before bedtime.

The mood, oddly enough, depends on the ventilation of the room. If you sleep in a stuffy room, then the body does not have enough oxygen, and it cannot recover. Accordingly, a person does not get a good rest and wakes up again in a bad mood. It’s easy to change in the bud - open the window for the night.

Stress

Another reason why a bad mood is stress, which can be caused by many factors. For example, if you live in the same apartment with people who are unpleasant to you. Then you just need to move to another place. If stress causes fatigue from work - try to distribute work time in a different way. Perhaps it is irrationally used, and as a result - you do not have time, you worry. Or maybe you should just change your job to a more relaxed one.

Caffeine

This substance causes a stressful state of the body, and its overdose the next day can cause irritation right in the morning. The way to fight, again, is simple - limit the daily intake of caffeine. By the way, it is contained not only in coffee, but also in black tea, but in green - most of all.

Traffic

If there is little movement, then you need to reconsider your day and diversify it with sports. Due to poor mobility, the cells of your body do not receive the required amount of oxygen, and a bad mood is his cry for help.

Disease

If everything that is listed is corrected, but the mood is still bad, then in this case the cause may be bile or kidneys. With poorly functioning kidneys, urine in the body stagnates, poisoning occurs. In this case, you need to take a diuretic and drink more water. If there is stagnation of bile, it is necessary to check the gallbladder and drink cholagogues.

Depression

A bad mood not only creates discomfort, it is dangerous, as it can lead to long-term depression. And it, in turn, negatively affects not only human life, but also relationships with colleagues and loved ones. In addition, the negative extends to human performance.

But depression and bad mood are different concepts. Depression has three components: fatigue, autonomic disturbances and a mood disorder, which is precisely caused by bad mood, the duration of which is over two weeks. In a depressed state, a person often cannot notice his mood, since this period is accompanied by longing, despair, anxiety, and indifference.

How to get rid

Are you in a bad mood? What to do in this case? Revisit your thoughts. You just need to follow them, analyze what is happening, whether there is a biased attitude towards the situation or the person. It is advisable to perform this procedure initially, as soon as the mood begins to deteriorate. After such an "inventory" of thoughts, many feel much better.

Action and inaction

Oddly enough, but these two things will help get rid of this condition, even if the mood is very bad. The first option is to mess around, the second is to work.

For the first category, “workaholics” are suitable, who give their all at work, take overtime and even work seven days a week. They can simply allow themselves to lie on the couch, watch a movie, get enough sleep, in general, do whatever they want, but not business and work. At the same time, you need to set a condition for yourself: there should not be any feeling of guilt! Very often, work sucks out of a person a lot of the energy he needs, so the body simply needs to recuperate. You just have to allow yourself to drop everything for a while and do only what you want directly.

The second category, on the contrary, is lazy people. The exact opposite is intended to treat their bad mood. These people just need to do something, overcoming their laziness. This does not mean that it is necessary to work hard. You can find an activity that you like. And if a favorite thing is found, then negative thoughts simply go aside, as a person is focused on the positive. After a while, the bad mood will simply disappear, evaporate.

Intellectual activity

Another effective way to cheer up even a very bad mood is intellectual activity. And besides this, it is very useful for self-development. You can solve crosswords, scanwords, play backgammon or checkers, pass a lot of psychological tests. And even better - come up with something of your own, what exactly you want to do now.

Fun

The mood can be changed almost instantly by being in a place where fun reigns. Amusements help a lot in this - practically the most effective medicine. There are always people, smiles and laughter, and even against the will of a person, the positive energy that this place is filled with is transmitted. It can be said, briefly, that desperate times require the same measures.

Music

If you are constantly in a bad mood, then you don’t want to go anywhere from home. Then the best remedy is music. It must be necessarily cheerful, rhythmic, incendiary. In this case, she herself will make you dance, and thoughts will gradually be distracted from problems, and your mood will turn into a good one. Here, at home, you can also advise comedies that are great for raising a bad mood. Not corrected after one film - you can turn on the second.

Communication and sex

Communication is also an important moment for the treatment of bad mood. Loneliness will never help get rid of it, but conversations, contacts - yes. But no communication can replace sex, which acts on a person, instantly correcting a depressed state. Above all, it is one of the most enjoyable ways to improve your mood. During sex, the body is fully activated, and you get not only pleasure, but also benefits.

Loneliness is another reason why you are always in a bad mood. In order to fix this, go to visit, or even better - to a party or club. You can arrange a holiday at home. Then you will be busy preparing and forget about your bad mood completely.

Period

When a woman expects her period soon, she is in a bad mood very often. The fair sex acutely and often painfully feels the approach of menstruation, reacting to this with bouts of irritation and some aggression.

The fact is that the hormone progesterone is to blame for this. During this period, its deficiency is observed in the female body, as a result of which the blood sugar level decreases and the production of adrenaline increases, which is released during severe fear or nervous tension.

But many experts believe that not only the hormone is to blame for the woman's bad mood during this period. The instability of the emotional state largely depends on the woman herself, her subjectivity. She may feel fine if her period started on time or if she does not take it hard. But the violation of the cycle just can cause irritation. In addition, if menstruation is difficult to bear, then the woman, feeling their approach, is already starting to get nervous, she is overwhelmed by the fear of pain, which, as she already knows, she will experience.

How to fight

First of all, you need to pay attention to nutrition and exclude from the diet at this time those foods that are exciting. For example, caffeine, black tea, chocolate and Coca-Cola. Try to consume as little salt as possible, as it retains water in the body. Sweet will also have to be excluded - it enhances the discomfort.

Alcohol should be completely avoided. But vitamins B, on the contrary, help to alleviate the condition. They are found in fresh herbs, bananas, nuts, liver, cereals and legumes. Relieve irritability, headache and swelling. Zucchini, spinach and nuts relieve tension, and clean water prevents swelling.

And the most important thing is rest. You need to be able to relax, and in this state it is better to postpone things for other days.

Bad mood: what to do if things don’t go well in the morning and every little thing annoys?

Moreover, irritation tends to increase with each passing hour, threatening to culminate in an outburst of anger or a nervous breakdown.

Is it possible to fight this condition and are there recipes to help get rid of a bad mood?

Why is there a bad mood?

Any person can experience a bad mood (and this is normal).

And it manifests itself differently for everyone: someone cries, someone becomes depressed, someone tears photos to shreds or breaks dishes.

A bad mood has many faces, it poisons life, so you should get rid of it as quickly as possible, you just need to understand the reasons for its occurrence.

So why is there a bad mood? It may be caused by:

• The presence of severe stress. One-time stressful situations are not as dangerous as constant nervous strain, which is fraught with the development of many ailments and leading to incurable chronic depression.
• Serious disease poisoning a person's life and significantly worsening the quality of his life.
• Constant lack of sleep due to the accelerated rhythms of modern life.
• Difficult financial situation.
• Serious quarrel with a loved one or work colleagues.
• Mismatch between the level of claims and reality (unfulfilled dreams).
• Resentment towards others.
• Various experiences and increased anxiety.
• The habit of holding back and accumulating negative emotions inside oneself towards bad people. When the burden of unspoken emotions becomes too great, the human subconscious mind responds with depression.

And this is an incomplete list of possible causes of bad mood.

The ability to deal with a bad mood largely depends on the attitude of a person.

Caused, first of all, by the environment in which the formation of his personality took place, the level and quality of education, close circle and a number of other circumstances.

“If the mood is bad, what should I do?” - you ask. Here are some easy ways to deal with bad moods:

• In order to analyze the reasons for your bad mood, You can turn to the help of a close friend. Confidential conversation with him will help not only get rid of negative emotions (which in itself will help to alleviate the condition), but will also open your eyes to the true cause of your experiences. And knowing the reason, it is already much easier to cope with a bad mood.
• The complex of the most ordinary morning exercises is able to drive away the blues and bad mood. Just recharge. Does it surprise you? In vain. The fact is that physical activity stimulates the production of endorphins - substances that can improve the emotional state of a person. As a physical discharge, you can choose a walk, jog or visit the pool. An ordinary punching bag helps some: 40 minutes of active “communication” with it can save not only a bad mood, but also extra calories. To tone up, you can do aerobics or go to a dance class.
• You can eat a few slices of real dark chocolate: This will help you cope with a bad mood, as chocolate promotes the production of opiates that improve emotional mood.
• You can watch funny movies featuring your favorite actor. If you do not have enough time for this, even a small video found on the Internet can cheer you up. It has been proven that in such cases, stories about the tricks of pets or viewing pictures with witty comments help well.
• You can engage yourself in intellectual activities: solving all kinds of puzzles, crossword puzzles, passing psychological tests, playing chess.
• You can visit the town of attractions. The atmosphere of unbridled fun that accompanies vacationers will infect you with a good mood and leave no room for spleen.
• You can do any creative activity: beading, painting, jewelry making, salt dough modeling, poetry - everything that you like and can distract from heavy thoughts.

How to overcome a bad mood?

What to do when a bad mood brings discomfort into your life, being a source of constant despondency and dissatisfaction with life?

• If the reason for your bad mood was communication with people who are unpleasant to you, try, if not to avoid communication (if it is someone from your administration or from among colleagues), then at least minimize contact with them.
• Make sure that in your environment there are people who are a source of positive energy. If for some reason you stopped communicating with them, make every effort to start this communication again. Nothing lifts your spirits like contact with someone with a good sense of humor.
• Try to think about things that make you happy: you can think of a time when you were successful and happy. Viewing a photo album with pictures from that period will help you get rid of negative emotions. Do not allow yourself to think about the bad, replace the negative with the positive - and you will feel how the bad mood will begin to leave you.
• Get pets: that's who will dispel the blues and fill life with positive emotions. The antics of pets will make you smile more than once, communication with them can calm a person (it has been established that stroking soft fur affects the frequency of contractions of the heart muscle), and systematic walks in the fresh air (if you get a dog) will help improve health and move will also have to.
• Depending on whether you are a workaholic or like to goof off, you should change your occupation. It will be useful for a workaholic to relax and unwind a little, going out of town or to a resort, and a lover of idle pastime, on the contrary, needs to devote himself to some important occupation.
• To get rid of a bad mood, a person sometimes needs only a good night's sleep, because chronic sleep deprivation can be the cause of depression .
• Stop worrying about everything. Often the cause of a bad mood is unreasonable anxiety. If you have some business to do and anxiety is associated with it, do not delay its implementation - and you will get rid of this unpleasant feeling.

What if it's depression?

You are constantly in a bad mood: what to do in this case?

The most important thing is not to dismiss your problems, but to take this condition seriously.

The fact is that it can easily develop into depression, which requires a mandatory referral to a psychotherapist and drug therapy. Therefore, it is better not to bring it to it, but to prevent it at the stage of a constantly bad mood.

When should the alarm be sounded, how not to miss the borderline state? When the mood is very bad can be considered already evidence of developed depression?

A consistently bad mood, observed in a person for two to three weeks, gives the right to claim that he has the first stage of depression, called a mood disorder.

At this stage, the mood is not always stably bad, there are also sudden changes.

It happens that a disgusting morning mood improves significantly in the evening, but it happens exactly the opposite: getting up in the morning in a great mood, a person feels depressed and tired in the evening.

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If you have similar symptoms, do not postpone a visit to a psychotherapist until later: help provided in time will save you from serious and lengthy treatment.

Health

Bad mood can arise for completely different reasons. Maybe you were badly served in a cafe, or you were stuck in a traffic jam in the morning, or you didn’t have lunch on time.

Factors that provoke a bad mood depend on the person and what provokes stress in his life. But what happens in your body and your brain when you're not in the mood?

The biology of bad mood

Some psychologists believe that bad mood arises from the depletion of the "ego". According to this idea, put forward by researcher Roy Baumeister, when people use their willpower to avoid temptation, they deplete their cognitive resources.

For example, if you refrain from something, say food, because you're on a diet, or outrage because you've been treated badly, it drains your brain and you become irritable.

In fact, the more you try to avoid something, the more irritable you become.

Try to imagine this as some kind of stress limit. When you cross the line, you have a bad mood, which is expressed in anger, irritability and cynicism. All this causes fluctuations in blood pressure, and also increases the level of the stress hormone cortisol.

There is evidence that bad moods change the way we look at life. In a 2009 study, researchers found that the condition bad mood causes a feeling of tunnel vision and narrows the field of view. Conversely, when you are in a good mood, you have a broader view of what surrounds you.

How to deal with a bad mood?

Luckily, bad moods are pretty easy to deal with if you follow a few tips. Of course, provided that you have a temporary condition, and not long-term depression, but even in this case, some tips can help.

1. Eat

Theoretically, if you do any activity that brings you pleasure, then it improves your mood, but food in this regard is effective for several reasons.

First, she restores those nutrients that you lost during the day. If you're in a bad mood because you haven't eaten anything and you have low blood sugar, you'll immediately feel relieved after eating a snack. Also, fatty acids in food have a positive effect on emotions.

If you're avoiding fat at all costs, you can replace it with spicy foods that release endorphins. However, be careful not to overeat.

2. Get physically active

Exercise increases endorphins and changes your mood from bad to good in minutes. The greatest charge of endorphins can be obtained by performing moderate to high intensity exercise.

The fact is that when breathing becomes difficult during such exercises, the body releases endorphins, which cause a state of happiness. Although the euphoria does not last long, it will be enough to forget your short-term problems.

3. Listen to music

Music releases dopamine in your brain. Music is associated with a sense of pleasure, and a three-minute song can easily turn your gloominess into a smile. As you listen to the tune, you anticipate what will happen next, and you may be rewarded with a burst of pleasure.

4. Take advantage of it

A bad mood often leads to a more attentive and thoughtful state, which allows you to focus on specific tasks.

As mentioned above, it gives you a kind of tunnel vision, which means that you can fully concentrate on a project. Also, a bad mood makes us more persuasive, as it contributes to the development of specific ideas and communication style.