How to communicate with depressed people

Depressed people often need skills and methods to communicate with them because of their negative emotional experiences and bad cognition, such as acceptance and listening, avoiding criticism or aggressive encouragement, and trying to adopt a consultative and questioning tone, etc., as follows: 1. Acceptance and listening, the best way to communicate with depressed people is to accept and listen to them. To do this, you need to understand the basic knowledge of depression in order to understand why depressed people feel unhappy and why they are pessimistic and negative, so that you can accept depressed people who are at a low point in their lives, and then listen to them attentively so that they can release their inner bad emotions. Encourage, it is not the patient’s fault to get depression, it has nothing to do with personal will, so try not to speak to the patient, including the following words, including others are worse than you, tomorrow will be better, life is unfair, you have to face them, life goes on, I know how you feel, I have also been depressed, you are too selfish, go out and relax and then forget about it all, you make me feel bad, you What are you depressed about? Just go out and run; 3. Try to adopt a tone of discussion and inquiry, such as what can I do to make you feel better, what do you think can make you feel better, can I give you a ride, where can you get help, you won’t stay like this, I will always be there for you, so that patients feel that someone respects their experience and reduce their feeling of loneliness and helplessness; 4. When the patient does not want to communicate, must not force, can silently accompany them, with silent communication to support them.