The essence of Morita therapy is "let nature take its course and do whatever you want". For patients with depression, accepting the fact of illness is the first task they face, and the next thing to consider is how to treat and cultivate them.

First, accept the fact that you are ill.

Birth, aging, illness and death are inevitable for human beings, especially diseases. No matter how hard you try to prevent it, diseases will still happen. Of course, there are all kinds of diseases, from colds and gastroenteritis to cancer, myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular diseases, which are the three major causes of death of modern people. Depression is just one of many diseases. But depression is obviously different from physical diseases, because its symptoms are not as easy to identify as the above diseases and jaundice. If you have a myocardial infarction, you can find its abnormality through ECG examination, or you can find it through CT or magnetic resonance examination. So far, it is difficult to judge depression through the above physical examination. So it is not easy for me or people around me to understand this disease, which is also the most difficult for patients to accept. The author once treated such a patient who suffered from depression 1 for many years. After being hospitalized, he recovered completely and found a job again. However, he soon heard that he had colorectal cancer again, fearing that it would recur when he needed surgery. The author went to see him on purpose. I said, "You must have suffered a lot from such a big operation." He said, "Although the operation is painful, it is easier than when you are depressed." Depression is a disease that is not easy to see and is often not understood by family members. To this end, he is very worried. The pain of depression does exist, but it is often misunderstood by people around. Sometimes even the patients themselves misunderstand their diseases. Many patients think that they have problems with their ability and energy or mistakenly think that they have become stupid, so they are depressed and feel more and more helpless. Therefore, when suffering from depression, the first step of rehabilitation is to understand the nature of the disease and the fact that patients and their families accept the disease, and then take necessary treatment and health care measures, which is the starting point of treatment and health care.

Second, how to maintain health

1, talking about health preservation from the perspective of medical history

Although some people may think that the word health care is very old, please think it over. What should we do when we are sick? When you have a fever and are weak, don't exercise reluctantly. Pay attention to keep warm and rest quietly. When you sweat because of a fever, you should immediately dry your sweat, put on your underwear and drink some eggnog to nourish your body. When you have diarrhea, don't overeat on weekdays. Eat a small amount of digestible food every night to replenish water. Almost everyone will do these things naturally when they suffer from physical illness. These are the wisdom of life that people have unconsciously explored from long-term practical experience. These empirical wisdom were widely used in ancient medicine. Hippocrates, a Greek known as the father of medicine, based his medical knowledge on such a view. He said that "medicine is a science that promotes the natural recovery of human diseases". During the Edo period in Japan, there was a doctor named Ohara Gaixuan, who, like Hippocrates, attached great importance to health preservation. He wrote a book called "Health Training" to the effect that staying active is the fundamental way to keep healthy.

The "yuan" here is different from the "vitality" we are talking about now. It emphasizes the meaning of "essence". "Yuan" is the foundation of body, mind and vitality, and this idea of health preservation can be said to be consistent with Hippocrates' point of view. Yuan Gaixuan pointed out that "no matter eating, drinking, drinking tea, relaxing bowels and taking a bath", every detail should be paid attention to separately. The content of health training is very specific and detailed, and it still has reference value. The original view is quite respected in the pre-modern medical stage.

2. With the rapid development of medicine, health preservation is easily overlooked.

With the development of modern medical technology, the causes of various diseases have been scientifically studied and eliminated. If you have an infectious disease, you should use antibiotics to fight its pathogen. This is a typical modern medical treatment model. Modern medicine also uses high-tech gene therapy and organ transplantation, but it still can't fully meet the needs of treatment. For example, the cause of diabetes is disorder of glucose metabolism, and its pathogenesis is gradually being discovered. It is very effective to drink insulin with hypoglycemic agents in practical treatment. But diabetes is also a typical lifestyle disease, so in order to prevent the disease from getting worse, it is necessary to adjust diet properly and strengthen physical exercise. Mild diabetes can be cured by diet therapy and exercise therapy, that is, health care therapy, without drugs, and at the same time prevent the development of the disease. Therefore, diabetes experts hold permanent diabetes lectures to let patients know about diabetes and help them consciously carry out diet and exercise therapy. One of the author's college classmates is now an expert in diabetes and Italian cuisine. Dietotherapy is not only a means to limit calorie intake, but more importantly, it allows patients to experience the pleasure of eating. The outstanding feature of this kind of health care treatment is that the subject of treatment and rehabilitation is not the doctor, but the patient himself. In modern medicine, most doctors treat patients with drugs or surgery. At this time, the subject of treatment is the doctor, and the patient is only the object of treatment by the doctor. With the rapid development of medicine today, it is necessary to pay more attention to patient-centered medical care.

3. Natural therapy for depression

Some mental diseases, led by depression, have considerable natural resilience.

Psychiatrist Mr. Nakai Jiuqu defines health preservation as: "In diseases with natural resilience, harmful toxins should be removed as much as possible to prevent a vicious circle in the process of disease generation and development, so that the disease can be restored to health in the best form." This best form is to recover naturally without detours. Mr. Nakai Zhen pointed out that the disease should be recovered naturally. Depression is a disease that can be cured naturally. Before antidepressants were developed, people realized that depression could recover naturally over time. The problem is that it takes a long time to fully recover, and patients will suffer considerable pain during this period. Therefore, in order to make patients recover faster and more thoroughly, antidepressants are used for treatment. But antidepressants can't be cured at once, and it takes a corresponding process from onset to cure. Therefore, let nature take its course, accept the fact that you are suffering from depression, and it will take some time and process to accept recovery. Be careful not to fall into a vicious circle in your life. It is the most important thing to give full play to the natural healing power of your body. Although there are individual differences in this natural healing power, it is the foundation of depression health care. The basic idea of Morita therapy is to promote the natural healing ability of patients. Mr. Morita often uses the word "natural energy". He said: "The treatment of all diseases is to help patients develop and enhance their natural energy, promote the recovery of diseases, and constantly improve the body's resistance to diseases. Morita therapy is mainly aimed at psychotherapy of neurosis, but its basic treatment ideas are also fully applicable to depression. "

4. Morita regimen

Let's talk about Morita's way of keeping in good health, which is to let nature take its course. If people with depression can naturally accept the fact that they are sick, it will be easier to treat them. But in fact, many people refuse to accept it because they often blame their low energy and lack of ability for the difficulties caused by depression. This phenomenon can also be regarded as a symptom of depression, namely pessimistic thinking. It is stubborn. Many people with depression say, "I know I have depression, but it is only because I am mentally retarded."

Most patients with depression are very strong before they get sick, so a considerable number of patients think that the treatment of depression also needs to make every effort to overcome this disease. Some patients, considering their own work, demand that "my illness should be cured before a certain day anyway, because there is still a very important job waiting for me afterwards". Even the recovery of the disease "must" follow its own schedule, and such patients may not stop until they are unable to move due to illness or fracture. Because the symptoms of depression are sometimes difficult to find, most patients are always unwilling to accept it. In addition, as mentioned in the first chapter, most patients with depression have the thinking mode and life philosophy of "what to do" and "what not to do". They tend to be cautious, enthusiastic and inflexible.

For patients who refuse to accept the fact that they suffer from depression, or accept it on the surface, but still think that they must try their best to cure as soon as possible, introduce some of Mr. Morita's own experiences.

According to Mr. Takayoshi Takehisa, a disciple of Mr. Morita, even if he is lying in bed due to illness, he will do something according to the degree of fever. When he has a little fever, he only writes something in general; When the fever is above 37 degrees, read books at most; If the fever is high, listen to others reading. It can be seen that Morita's treatment of diseases is based on improvisation before illness. If the temperature is above 39 degrees, I'm afraid Mr. Morita himself will stop all activities and have a quiet rest. Similarly, if depression is at its worst, quiet rest is the best policy. The essence of this is the same. No matter how serious the symptoms are, they are never working as usual. It is very important to adjust actions according to the degree of depression.

The natural health care mentioned here is to accept the reality that you are sick and rest quietly; The second layer means that depression will definitely enter the recovery period after orgasm. During this period, you can give full play to what Mr. Morita called "the desire to live", that is, give full play to your desire to live better and develop upward, thus promoting physical and mental health. In other words, pay attention to restoring the natural desire that stagnated when suffering from depression and cultivate the bud of its natural desire.

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