{"id":825,"date":"2018-12-11T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2021-02-28T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T05:27:12","slug":"resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"I investigated the psychological resilience \"resilience\" to counter depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Humans originally have negative emotions<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n

Human beings are creatures that can predict the future, so they are said to have negative emotions to avoid a crisis.\u00a0In order to detect and avoid the possibility of life-threatening, it is more likely that we will survive by considering what may happen and the possibility that bad things will occur as a result of our actions.\u00a0Having survived that way since the early days, it’s only natural to think of things badly.<\/span>
Therefore, it is natural for humans to feel anxiety and fear, and it is more problematic not to feel it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since I became depressed, I have almost no negative feelings of anxiety, fear, and despair for the future, and of course I try to do something, even when I meet someone. Even if it was a friend, I was just thinking about the possibility of bad things happening, such as “I’m not going to fail” or “I’m not going to be hated”.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Depressed people will feel a little relieved to know that it is unavoidable to fall into negative emotions because “it is natural to feel anxiety and fear”.\u00a0It’s not a “wrong feeling”, it’s just a disease that tends to be more negative than others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is resilience?<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n

“Resilience” was originally used in environmental science to describe the “restoring force” of ecosystems against environmental changes.\u00a0It has begun to be used in modern psychology as a term for a person’s “mental resilience.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to the dictionary, “the ability to elastically return to the original shape” and “the ability to withstand difficult situations and recover quickly” are psychologically used as the latter.\u00a0The American Psychological Association describes resilience as “the mental strength and psychological process of adapting in the face of adversity, trouble, and fishing stress.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Meanwhile, I learned from a book how to train this “resilience”.\u00a0This is not a method of treating depression, and it may be said that it is a self-development psychology widely used in the business world, but is it also effective for depression?\u00a0I think.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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