500 words of mental health experience

It never requires people to "always be positive and have no negative emotions", but to learn to coexist peacefully with various emotions, and there is no universal adjustment formula. The most effective one is the one that suits you.

I received a request for help from a freshman girl who was so anxious during the finals week that she couldn't eat. Her peers in the club who studied cognitive behavioral school suggested that she first help her dismantle the irrational belief that "it will be over if she fails the test". However, the senior sister who is more humanistic said that crying with her first is more useful than explaining rationale. In the end, I didn't follow the standard procedures of any school. I ate two bowls of hot wontons with her in the cafeteria, and listened to her talk about the grievances she had accumulated for half a semester without saying any preaching. She was able to calm down and endorse it the next day.

I have also fallen into the trap of rigid adjustment methods. I spent a week competing for an innovation and entrepreneurship competition. One day, I changed my plan and dropped my headphones. I followed the "standard adjustment method" widely circulated on the Internet and forced myself to take deep breaths and meditate. On the contrary, the more I sat, the more irritable I became. Finally, I put on my coat and went to the playground for three runs. I squatted on the roadside and ate half of a spicy sausage. The breath I was holding in disappeared inexplicably. The club had previously conducted a small survey of 30 people, and 60% of the respondents felt that the "universal emotion regulation method" spread online was of no use to them. Instead, mindless mechanical tasks such as washing socks and tidying up desks could pull themselves out of the emotional whirlpool.

Before, I always felt that I had to deal with emotional problems by myself. It wasn’t until I had insomnia for three consecutive days last month that I talked to a psychology teacher for 15 minutes, only to realize that sometimes I am stuck in a closed loop of thinking. A non-judgmental question from the outside world is much more useful than dealing with it for a week. Now I carry a lemon candy in my bag all year round. When I am annoyed, I bite it and it is so sour that I can stop my mood for half a second. To put it bluntly, mental health is like charging a mobile phone. Some are suitable for fast charging and others are suitable for wireless charging. The best method is the one that makes you comfortable. (Full text 497 words)