How to prevent “emotional heatstroke”

  In the past few days, the morning temperature has been hovering around 30 ℃, with the passage of time, the temperature also rocketed up. Near noon, the temperature has been forced to 40 ℃, the public walking on the road, like ants on a hot pot, anxious, bored anomaly. In the face of persistent high temperature sauna weather, the general public to take measures to prevent summer heat at the same time, how to prevent “emotional poisoning”? The key to avoiding “emotional heatstroke” is to pay attention to a balanced diet, maintain a normal sleep, and adjust your mindset, and once your emotions are seriously out of control, please seek psychological counseling in a timely manner.  The summer heat fear induced ” emotional heatstroke ” “emotional heatstroke” is a kind of seasonal affective disorder appear psychological disorders, medical collectively known as “summer affective disorder syndrome”. Research has confirmed that when the temperature exceeds 35℃, sunshine exceeds 12 hours, and humidity is higher than 80%, such continuous hot and muggy weather will have a significant negative impact on the emotional regulation center of the human hypothalamus. At this time, people are prone to lack of patience and emotional outbursts. This shows that “emotional heat stroke” is seasonal, and the onset of the disease usually occurs during the hot summer months.  The clinical manifestations of “emotional heatstroke” include three major aspects: first, emotional irritability, people often because of some trivial things, to family, friends or colleagues to lose their temper, and they often feel upset, do things without patience, easy to impulsive, can not be quiet, often lose three, forgetfulness and poor sleep; second is Emotional depression and low mood, patients are often sullen, decreased interest, procrastination, lack of enthusiasm for the people or things around them; third, personality changes and abnormal behavior, manifested as a lack of intention to go to work or go out, increased suspicion, fear, often stubbornly repeatedly do certain things.  Five types of people need to be vigilant So, which are the “emotional heatstroke” susceptible people? Generally speaking, there are five groups of people who need to pay enough attention to everyone.  The first is those who work outdoors in the heat of heavy manual labor and the elderly and frail, these people are very easy to fatigue, resulting in emotional depression. Secondly, the daily work, life stress, often due to their own long-term tension, by the hot external environment ignited emotional “fuse”, easy to suppress the long-standing negative emotions out of a brain. In addition, those who are nervous and moody and fragile personality fluctuations, due to their own adaptability to the environment and relatively poor psychological adjustment ability, more likely to feel irritable and restless.  In addition to these three main susceptible groups, those introverted and unsociable people who are overly concerned or care about the views of others are often more suspicious and not good at expressing themselves. These people may get into a big fight with people over small things in a hot environment.  The fifth group is children and adolescents, because children are still in the stage of emotional and affective development, the hot weather is more likely to induce their impulsive behavior.  Prevention of “emotional heatstroke” requires a two-pronged approach, both internal and external In short, the high-temperature environment is the external cause of “emotional heatstroke”, while the psychological stress, personality sensitivity and vulnerability, as well as poor mental capacity and adaptability is the internal cause of “emotional heatstroke”. Therefore, it is important to prevent “emotional heat stroke”. Therefore, the prevention of “emotional heat stroke” also requires a two-pronged approach, both internal and external.  You can start to prevent it from four aspects: strengthen the measures to prevent heatstroke, adapt to climate change; balance the diet; maintain a normal sleep; and adjust the mentality.  1, first of all, we should adjust the summer living time as much as possible, reduce the high temperature work, increase the lunch break. Because, maintain sufficient physical strength and energy is very critical to prevent physical and mental heat stroke. In addition, lack of sleep or poor quality sleep can easily trigger fatigue and mood swings, and the mood can become more impatient. Therefore, it is especially important to maintain a normal sleep rhythm and time.  2, in the diet should be timely vitamin supplements, eat more appetizing food and cooling, “fire” effect of food and drinks, such as fresh vegetables, fruits, green tea, etc., but also pay attention to avoid eating too much cool food and affect the gastrointestinal function.  3, the daily diet in summer should be light, less greasy food, so as to regulate body temperature and improve metabolic function, promote blood circulation, to avoid heat stroke.  4.Everyone is equal in front of high temperature. Therefore, the hotter the weather, the more the mind needs to be calm, so that “the heart is quiet and naturally cool” will help reduce the psychological heat, reduce the negative impact of the weather on the body. In addition, the timely discovery of their own personality vulnerability, calm, more tolerant, less angry, to maintain an open mind, these can help prevent “emotional heatstroke”.  If the above-mentioned more serious “emotional heat stroke” or psychological problems, please seek psychological counseling in a timely manner, so as not to aggravate the condition and affect their normal life.