People who are prone to depression have images of "negative," "naive," and "delicate," and I think that's the case.
A person with negative emotions has a high ability to perceive the other person's heart and to be close to the person's heart, so he is a sensitive person who understands the person's feelings.
However, on the contrary, if you read too much about a person's mind and care too much about what someone says, or think too deeply , you may become irritable or ruminate, which may cause stress and depressive symptoms. It also leads to the cause of deterioration.
Communication disorders are prone to depression, and when depression occurs, communication disorders occur.
However, research shows that depression and depression increase insensitivity.
In a good sense, it means "a positive mental power that allows people to quickly forget and recover even if something is unpleasant . "
For people with depression, their defense instinct is becoming more insensitive, but there are also negative aspects such as "I can't understand the emotions of others" and "I can't read the air" because of the bad side and insensitivity . It is said that human relations deteriorate due to that, and communication ability declines.
Depression may be a defensive instinct that is trying to dull that sensation, as it is mentally affected by the delicate and sensitive emotions that it originally possesses.
However, that would be a problem, and if you can't make good relationships, it's difficult to reintegrate into society.
In fact, I have quit the company four times because of human relationships, so even if I get a job somewhere next time, I will be traumatized by the trauma that I may have a hard time with human relationships.
Then, it seems that an experiment was conducted at Bangor University in England, "Can we prevent being insensitive to the emotions of others?"
Experiments on communicative disorders at Bangor University in the United Kingdom
Divide 40 students into 20 students, have one group do mindfulness for 8 weeks, and the other group do nothing. Eight weeks later, the state of the brain was measured, and "stress level", "empathy ability", "happiness level", etc. were investigated by performing electroencephalogram measurement.
By the way, it seems that he used a program called ".b (dot bee)" for mindfulness .
In the experiment, the subjects were randomly shown face photographs of "happy face", "normal face", and "sad face", and when the face looked happy, the happy button was pressed. When the face looked sad, the face was pressed. Contents such as pressing the sad button.
At this time, we measured the reaction speed of ERPS (brain waves generated when reading the emotions of others) in the brain, and investigated the difference in speed between those who received mindfulness and those who did not.
As a result, there was almost no difference in "stress level" and "empathy ability" between the two groups.
eh? Is that so? Doesn't it work? As for the story, there was a difference, and the "happiness" was higher in the mindfulness group.
There was also a difference in the "ERPS reaction speed", and the result was that the mindfulness group had a faster reaction speed of the brain waves generated when reading the emotions of others. In other words, I was able to react faster to the feelings of others.
In other words, the degree of stress did not change in 8 weeks, but being able to react faster to the feelings of others can be thought of as improving communication skills in human relationships . I seem to have concluded.
I'm talking about how you can improve your communicative competence even though you haven't improved your empathy, but there is no doubt that it will be easier for you to react to your own feelings and the feelings of others.
Being more responsive to the emotions of others means being "smart", and being more responsive to your own emotions leads to self-control.
Also, being able to react to the emotions of others means that you can communicate according to those emotions = improve your communicative competence = communicative disorders! The theory. That's right.
Therefore, I think "mindfulness" is effective for communication disorders in depression.
What is mindfulness? how can I do?
Mindfulness is a psychological process that focuses on the experiences that are occurring today and can be developed through meditation and other training. As the meaning of mindfulness, it is sometimes explained that "now, intentionally pay attention to the experience of this moment, do not evaluate it, and just watch it in an unobtrusive state."
Wikipedia says,
"Focus on yourself as you are, regardless of the past or future."
It's like setting aside the problems and worries you're having at this time and just feeling that you're here.
However, it does not mean that you live with that kind of mind all the time, but 10 minutes a day or so is enough, and having time to concentrate like that makes your mind calm and your concentration. It feels like you should keep your mind tidy by uploading it.
"Meditation" and "yoga" are the most popular as to what to do specifically .
It doesn't matter if you sit or lie down, it's like "zazen", where you quietly close your eyes and don't think about anything.
However, it is difficult to "think nothing".
So, in my case, I think about these things.
・ Think only about "don't think about anything"
・ Count slowly from 1 and count from 1 again if you don't know the number in the middle
I try not to think about thoughts and unnecessary things, but it was quite difficult at first, but if I continue for a while, I will get used to it.
In addition, if you search for "meditation" or "mindfulness" on your smartphone app, you will find various hits, so you may want to download an app that you can do and try it.
Summary
If you become depressed or fall into a depressed state, you will not be able to notice the positive and negative emotions of others, and your communication skills will decline, and you will not be good at relationships and communicative problems. If you become aware of your feelings and your feelings quickly, you will have relationships that will help you when you are depressed. That's right.
Mindfulness is also a smartphone app, so you can download it and use it.
I use a guy called "Sleeping Manma Yoga". It feels good and I fall asleep.
Also, meditation is effective not only for improving communicative competence but also for improving self-control. On the contrary, increasing self-control may be a way to overcome relationships.