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Are you also on the road of parents' planning, but you don't know what you really think? Or do you work overtime fishing with your colleagues every day just to avoid being the first bird to leave? When people are talking about social involution and worrying about the stagnation of human society, are you also in the whirlpool of psychological involution?

The essence of psychological involution is that people are in the whirlpool of pain because of some contradictions and conflicts, unable to actively participate in study, work and life, and in vain fall into a state of self-exhaustion or self-slack.

Psychological involution makes it impossible for people to live in harmony with their inner world and realize the value of life while adapting to the world.

I hope that in this test, you can find the key to your own enlightenment, break the vicious circle of involution, see the road that fits your heart and walk out of a new world.

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1. Your degradation index

A person's self-demand, adaptability to the environment, tolerance to pressure and ability to handle tasks will all affect his psychological involution index. It may be because of cognitive, behavioral or emotional reasons that you feel anxious and painful.

This kind of pain may be temporary or long-term, depending on the reasons for your psychological entanglement and your solution to this psychological entanglement.

Generally speaking, your psychological involution index is in the middle and high level, which shows that you have been negatively affected by involution to some extent. In the process of pursuing your goal, you are in a whirlpool of anxiety and pain for some reasons, and this involution has some adverse effects on your mood.

It is worth noting that serious psychological involution also poses a certain threat to your health. You will feel anxious, uncomfortable, weakened, and may have some indigestion, headache, chest tightness or hair loss.

"involution" is actually a signal of psychological feedback, reminding us to examine our state and see if our present situation needs better adjustment.

Looking for the root of involution and knowing what is consuming us, maybe we can better break and dissolve involution emotions and realize psychological upgrading and growth.

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2. Your degeneration type

Confused and sleepy type

You're lost and trapped. Your heart is confused, you are not sure where your life value lies, and you have not found a life goal for which you are willing to die. But in order to maintain the quality of life, you have to make a lot of efforts.

Although you have tried your best to improve efficiency, allocate energy and do things better than many people, you still can't resist the constant rush of things to you. You always seem to have endless things to do, but you haven't got the results you want after doing so much.

In the huge social gear, many times, like marionettes, our will is not expressed, our will is not taken seriously, and our efforts are not rewarded. In order to survive, we must yield. It takes courage to control your life.

If your personal will is not expressed and your inner needs are not met, it will lead to contradictions and conflicts in your heart. High-intensity work and high-pressure environment make it difficult for you to maintain a stable and optimistic attitude for a long time.

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3. What makes you work harder and devote yourself more?

1) Cognitive reasons: achievement motivation VS environmental pressure.

From your own point of view, you don't have a clear ambition or ambition, unlike some people who decided to become politicians, entrepreneurs, CEOs and rich people early. Although you have no ambition, you are somewhat envious of those who have ambitions. You don't envy their achievements, but their clear life goals and life plans.

You are still looking for it in confusion. You only know that you don't want to sacrifice too much for success, but you don't know what you can sacrifice.

You should not only deal with the confusion in your own direction, but also deal with the pressure brought by the environment. This environmental pressure may come from your identity, career, family or social expectations. In order to meet the expectations of the environment, you have to make a lot of efforts and be as busy as a headless fly in confusion.

2) Behavior reason: effort VS energy management.

Although you have made a lot of efforts, mobilized all available resources as much as possible, and your work efficiency has always been much higher than others, the pressure exerted by the outside world is too heavy, and things seem to keep coming to you, and you can't do anything.

You try your best to maintain efficient operation, use your high-level energy management ability, and strive to complete various tasks and work. If you are in such a state of physical and mental exhaustion for a long time, it is easy to fall into a state of mental involution, and you need to pay attention to adjustment and rest.

3) Emotional reasons: anxiety level VS self-efficacy.

At present, you are in a confused and troubled mood, with a high degree of anxiety and inner depression. Even if there is nothing worth worrying about in your life, you will always feel vaguely that something bad is going to happen.

Sometimes you worry about small things, even if they are not worth worrying about in the eyes of most people. Fortunately, you still have a clear understanding of your abilities. You believe that as long as you find the direction to work for and make up your mind to work hard, you can achieve your goal.

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4. How to break the influence of psychological involution?

1) Cognitive aspect:

A. Improve achievement motivation and get rid of the influence of involution

From the perspective of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), your lack of achievement motivation may be due to your negative way of thinking. I hope you can give yourself some time to sort out these ideas and see which ones are reasonable and which ones are just unilateral guesses.

This may be the best way to experience positive feedback in life. First of all, you can try to record negative emotions and thoughts to avoid falling into a negative thinking cycle. Secondly, it can help you to establish a healthy attribution style, look at the problem objectively and give possible solutions.

If you like, you can also ask your colleagues or leaders to evaluate your ability objectively, because your evaluation of yourself is likely to be biased. Getting positive comments and support from others may make you feel more confident.

The adjustment of the country will not happen overnight. Give yourself more time, give yourself more confidence, and learn to accept and face up to these emotions, which may make our road more firm.

When you have a certain motivation for self-achievement, you will naturally have a more positive view of your future development, so that your goal may bottom out.

Recommended reading: From Excellence to Excellence by Collins James.

B. Face up to environmental pressure

Being under high-pressure environmental pressure for a long time will not only greatly reduce your efficiency, but also lead to psychological problems such as anxiety in the long run. The most important thing now is to give yourself some rest space.

Maybe you can take a few days off, let nature take its course, or talk to friends you haven't contacted for a long time and talk about your recent troubles. You can also try outdoor sports and do anything you like. If possible, you can even stay away from the environment that brings you involution, temporarily put everything down and travel completely.

You need to stop and have a rest, recharge your batteries, and find the motivation and meaning of your goal.

You can try to relax by breathing, take a few deep breaths to calm yourself down a little, and try to experience how all parts of your body are aroused by involution from head to toe, so that these feelings can fully emerge first, and then let them slowly recede like the tide in your breath.

2) Emotion: Relieve anxiety and get out of the trap of involution.

Learn to cope with anxiety. Although anxiety makes us feel uncomfortable, it is not completely useless. The emergence of anxiety is to remind us of some potential difficulties and urge us to take action to solve existing challenges or potential concerns.

Once you find yourself starting to feel anxious, take ten deep breaths and think about what you can do to solve the problem. If the problem is difficult to solve, think about the consequences. If you can't solve the difficulty, try to minimize the worst.

Besides, healthy living habits can help us reduce anxiety. The connection between body and mind is often closer than we think. Keep regular eating habits, ensure balanced nutrition intake, get enough rest, and take proper exercise, and you will find that your mood will gradually get better and your anxiety will appear less and less.

Besides, you can use mindfulness therapy to change your anxiety. Mindfulness has a significant effect on anxiety, which has been verified by many psychologists. The so-called mindfulness is to pay attention to and perceive everything in the moment with a purpose and consciousness, without making any judgment, analysis or reaction to everything in the moment, but simply to perceive and pay attention.

I recommend reading Mindfulness by Joe Kabajin, which can help you to establish the concept of mindfulness and change your anxiety with mindfulness.