The treatment of depression is divided into two main categories, one is pharmacological and the other is non-pharmacological, including psychotherapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and twitch-free electroconvulsive therapy. Psychotherapy is carried out under the guidance of professional doctors and requires patients to go to the hospital on time and actively, which takes a lot of time. Medication, on the other hand, is very simple and requires no special effort on the part of the patient, who can simply take the medication regularly every day under the guidance of the doctor, spending very little time on taking the medication every day. Therefore, patients think that psychotherapy is more troublesome and do not want to take psychotherapy, but only rely on medication to treat depression. But in fact, depression can not be solved by taking medication alone. Patients’ personality defects, social stimuli, and other contributing factors are not addressed by medication. In view of the fact that many patients really can’t arrange their work or study time and can’t go to the hospital regularly to carry out psychotherapy, then here are a few simple daily self-regulation methods for depression. 1. Develop a good character. There is a saying in psychology that “character determines fate”. This phrase outlines the importance of character. Personality affects many aspects of people’s psychology, such as character affects the way an individual sees things, affects the way he deals with people, and also affects the way he chooses to solve problems when he encounters difficulties. Therefore, personality often determines whether the solutions people take after encountering problems are appropriate, and whether they actively seek help or avoid retreating after generating bad feelings. People with defective personality tend to over-exaggerate the psychological stimuli, produce excessive melancholy reaction, or escape from reality, alcohol or drug abuse all day, self-deception, so that the reality of difficulties and depression persist. If a person has a good personality, in the face of mental stimuli will actively seek outside help, from the positive side to see the difficulties they encounter, thus increasing self-confidence, improve the practical skills to deal with complicated problems, can effectively prevent bad stimuli on their own psychological harm. Of course, personality change is not so easy, but it is not impossible. First of all, we should objectively recognize what our character defects are, and then choose good character traits as the goal of their efforts, to actively correct the weaknesses and deficiencies in personality, actively sow habits in daily life, to enrich their knowledge, to grasp the degree, and gradually improve their character over time. 2, do not give yourself too much pressure. As the saying goes, nine out of ten things in life are not as they should be, frustration and disappointment are inevitable, depression can happen at any time, and “everything goes as it should” is just a good wish and blessing. In life, we must look at the unpleasant things we encounter, in fact, everything can be viewed from both sides of the positive and negative, to think more from the good, positive aspects, the setback and pressure as a kind of experience, you can learn from the lessons and experience, the next time you can avoid similar bad things happen again. This is the truth that “failure is the mother of success”. Don’t blame yourself too much, don’t compare yourself with others, evaluate your own ability correctly, don’t have high expectations of life, and reasonably adjust your ambition level, you can always stay optimistic. 3.Seek help from good friends. Own in ordinary times to pay attention to more and good friends, in a bad mood or encounter difficulties do not shut themselves up all day at home, to take the initiative to tell their unhappy heart to friends or family, whining, pour out the bitterness in the stomach, from the catharsis to get relief. The accumulation of bad emotions can be a serious problem, and appropriate emotional relief is beneficial to physical and mental health. But it should be noted that the object of their own confession must be their own heartfelt friends. 4.Cultivate a wide range of beneficial outdoor hobbies. A wide range of hobbies is a “lifeline” for depression. When a person is in a bad mood, he or she is advised to do something he or she likes to do, especially outdoor hobbies. One can divert one’s attention to avoid indulging in bad events; secondly, research has found that many outdoor sports such as swimming, jogging, cycling and other aerobic exercises can stimulate the secretion of neurotransmitters in the brain and produce pleasant chemicals, which make people feel happy and naturally relieve depression; in addition, the process of sports activities can also enhance the exchange of emotions with others, thus Get a positive emotional experience. 5, read some excellent literature or short articles. With the accelerated pace of people’s work and study, few people have kept the habit of reading now. In fact, when people read excellent literature, they are often infected by the beautiful mood of the work, which can cause a strong sense of beauty, trigger the inner resonance, awaken the dusty childhood memories, and help us to associate with happy past and beautiful things. In this way, the psychological pressure is relieved, and the mood is soothed. It is recommended that depressed patients read regularly, can make their chests open, the spirit has a support, the mood is naturally in a positive, stable, optimistic, upward state. 6, to establish good interpersonal relationships. We will deal with all kinds of people in our daily lives, good interpersonal relationships can meet the needs of people’s sense of security and belonging, so that people are emotionally stable and happy. If a person always fails to deal with his own relationship with people around him, then he will regularly encounter various difficulties and his mood will naturally not be good. And if we can get in a good interpersonal relationship of understanding, respect, comfort, sympathy and other psychological support, it can well reduce and eliminate the external environment to bring us tension, anxiety, depression and other negative emotions.