How to treat nerves during the war: Psychologist's advice

In some ways, this is true - society in the country covered by the country has learned to take more care of their mental health. However, many of us still wake up at night from the sounds of sirens and squeeze from the plane in the sky. Focus spoke with psychology Oksana Sidun about how to treat nerves during the war and to solve psychological problems. "Mental health problems are a topical topic for Ukraine. We are in a country where active fighting is constantly taking place.

Even if in a particular city is now relatively calm, people are all the time in tension because every moment something is It can happen, and it is impossible to predict, " - says psychologist Oksana Sidun. Commenting on mental health problems during the war, the expert focuses on several points: during a full -scale war in Ukraine, many experts have given their advice, how not to get crazy about constant bad news. For someone they work, for someone.

Someone finds their own recipes how to calm yourself and reassure others. Focus asked Oksana Sidun to distinguish ten recommendations to maintain his mental health. Many people today write to themselves the lists "What I will do after the war". On the one hand, it can seem a useful exercise, because, first, it gives the opportunity to plan something and thus creates hope that in the conditional tomorrow everything will be good.

But on the other hand, the mechanism of "delayed happiness" works here, because a person can stop living today and carrying something important and pleasant for some indefinite time. As Oksana Sidun explains, such lists are "for later" very often related to guilt. "People do this because of the so -called" guilt of the surviving ", which does not allow them to enjoy and realize their own dreams at the moment. It is important to understand that we need to live here and now," the expert says.

Yes, she notes, it is really possible to fantasize on how we celebrate our victory, but this is not a reason to postpone life for later. There is another point. The appearance of this guilt of the surviving can provoke directly the human environment. "The war gave many Ukrainians the feeling that the life of the kinery, and so those who once planned something, want to realize it right now. But it turns out that society tries to shake them in this. not time.

Not for this reason, so on the other, "Sidun comments. In general, the guilt of the surviving can be manifested in many moments and be associated with different things. Like the same vacation that a person does not take precisely because it is "not on time. " Such irrational guilt should be drawn, because it is a direct path to depression, emphasizes the expert. "We need to think that the Ukrainian army is at war for Ukrainians to have this opportunity to live a normal life, including vacations.

You will not help your depressed state and fatigue of the Armed Forces," Psychology notes. A person should be in the resource, that is, rest normal to be able to work properly and to pay money. As Sidun explains, most people do not know at all how much they give to the Armed Forces or any other volunteer needs. Therefore, it may seem to Ukrainians that this is not enough. But if you sit down and calculate, they will realize that this is a large amount.