The depression of Harry Potter

picked up Harry Potter again to figure out why Harry wasn't with Hermione. Although there was a popular explanation of "class emergence theory" before, I don't believe it. After reading one or two books, he had re-recognized Harry's sensitive character, while Ron spent two years talking and laughing with Hermione. But after watching the third film, I suddenly found that Harry's character is not as simple as sensitivity. Anyone familiar with the Harry Potter series as a child should remember that Harry's nemesis, Voldemort, did not appear in the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry's greatest enemy in this book is the Dementor.

Dementors are guards of Azkaban Prison, "monsters in cloaks and up to the ceiling. Its face is completely hidden under the headscarf. A hand stretched out of its cloak, shimmering gray, thin, and scabbed as if something had died and rotted in the water. [1] Professor Lupin once explained to Harry, "Dementors are one of the most abominable creatures on earth. They haunt the darkest and dirtiest places in droves, cheering corruption and despair, sucking peace, hope, and joy out of the air around them. Even Muggles can feel them, though they can't see them. Get too close to a dementor and any good feelings and happy memories will be sucked away by it. If it can do so, it will depend on you for a long time and end up making you just like it-soulless and evil. All that's left is the worst memory of your life. " [2] at this point, does anyone already think that Dementors are very similar to another word in our Muggle world?

Yes, it is depression.

Harry is a magic baby, a child who can resist Voldemort, but has no resistance to dementors. Whenever the dementors approached him, Harry would be drowned in the bitter cold, hear his mother's screams before she died, and then be abused by the dementors in agony. And since the first time he had this experience on the train, Harry would feel "a familiar and terrible cold wave coming at him again" when he met the dementors again. [3] this sentence is an apt description of the experience of depression. Most cases of depression tend to have repeated attacks because the way of thinking that causes psychological disorders appears automatically, and when people do not recognize this automatic thinking, no matter what situation they are really in, the mood will show a familiar sense of depression and fall into the "dark abyss" at an extremely rapid speed. This almost "familiar with the road" experience, so that people can not resist, but also can not be interrupted. Some doctors pointed out, "Depression." Each attack usually lasts for several days, or even for several months. Generally, after an attack period will be self-relieving, the remission period completely returned to normal, and they are fully aware of the abnormal attack, their hope that there will be no recurrence, but often repeated attacks, this is beyond the control of the patient. " [4]

the cunning dementors sensed Harry's vulnerable physique and appeared frequently around him. Finally, in the Quidditch game, Harry was attacked by a group of dementors. He fell off Nimbus 2000 and fell from high altitude. This helplessness and hopelessness falling from the cloud, the automatic mode of thinking of falling into the "emotional abyss" and the fear of the abyss that can not be stepped on, as well as recurrent situations and psychological fear of preset scenes, all imply that Harry's dementors are "depression". The novel J.K. Rowling revealed in an interview that the setting of Dementors is a literary reflection of her personal life experience. In 1991, 26-year-old Rowling went to Portugal to teach children English, before which she worked as a secretary for some time. On October 16, 1992, she married George Aronti, a Portuguese television journalist. Unfortunately, this marriage comes and goes quickly. They separated in November of the same year. The biographer wrote that Rowling had suffered domestic violence at the time, but no one else could know all the details about the marriage. In an interview with KuaiBao Daily, George Arends mentioned that on their last night, he dragged Rowling out of the house and beat her on the head, which was still 5 a.m. In December, Rowling returned to England with her three-month-old daughter Jessica (Jessica). Rowling was unemployed at the time, her unemployment benefits had just been able to pay the rent, and a deposit of 600 pounds was paid by a friend of Rowling's. It was in that narrow bungalow that Rowling, desperate, wrote her first Harry Potter. As a result of living in poverty, single mother Rowling fell into extreme depression, and Rowling's condition worsened when her ex-husband went to Britain to visit their mother and daughter. She applied to the court for a protection order, forcing Arantes to return to Portugal alone. During that low ebb, Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression and tried to commit suicide. The dark feelings of melancholy became the inspiration for Rowling to create dementors, a dark creature in Harry Potter that sucks up positive human emotions and even souls. Rowling described failure as a liberation. "failure means getting rid of unnecessary things," she said. "I am no longer deceiving myself, I am simply loyal to myself, and devote all my efforts to doing the only important work." If I had succeeded elsewhere before, I might never have the determination to devote myself to a field where I am confident that I belong to me. I'm free! Because although my greatest fear has come, and I am still alive, I have a lovely daughter, an old typewriter, and great ideas. It has fallen to the bottom of the valley, but it has become a deep foundation for rebirth in the future. " The answer to the riddle is solved. In the Prisoner of Azkaban, the dementor that afflicts Harry from beginning to end is strong> Depression.

the reason why I am particularly sensitive to Harry's feelings is that I have had depression. A melancholy experience. And when I confirmed that Rowling did inject such a dark side into Harry, to be honest, I was shocked. I don't understand. As the protagonist of a growing-up fairy tale, how can Harry get depressed? Because deep down, I feel that suffering from depression is a kind of shame and should not be told to outsiders. In youth, I do not know how many people have experienced depression, but in the social environment at that time, psychotherapy and counseling are still rare words. As a result, most people struggle with varying degrees of depression, accompanied by different life experiences later, some people heal themselves, some people, unfortunately, more serious, until adulthood or even a few years of work, the problem is put on the surface. We are ashamed to tell outsiders about our plight, because we do not want to be regarded as weak, do not want to be said that the psychological quality is poor, because "everyone else is fine, how can I do this?" Because "people will think that I am hypocritical and weak and hate me". When Harry first told people about his plight and asked Professor Lupin why he was influenced by dementors, Professor Lupin's first sentence was sharply pointed out that "it has nothing to do with weakness." [5] then "a ray of winter sun came into the classroom, illuminating Lupin's gray hair and the wrinkles on his young face." [6] although I can now control my negative emotions, when I see this sentence, I am still shining into my heart by a ray of winter sunshine. Our understanding of depression is never accurate, but it is just a dilemma and problem that we may encounter on the road to adulthood. all fear comes from ignorance, and when we give things their original names, we gain the power to stare calmly at them.

when a habitual automatic negative emotion is turned on, we will fall into the cobweb of depression and it will be difficult to break free. This uncontrollable loss makes us complain and distrust ourselves, so we want to be saved by someone we can trust. This person may be a parent, a friend, a lover, or a person in our mind who "will never be like me". This person is strong, selfless, with good qualities that we do not have, in short, he is "divine". When Harry encountered the greatest crisis in this book, he saw in dim consciousness that someone on the other side of the lake had summoned a powerful guard for him. He firmly believed that the wizard was his dead father. Hermione and Ron, as outsiders, can easily tell the truth that people cannot come back from the dead. But looking at Harry's praying eyes, do we, even as spectators, want it to be true? Because we have prayed the same way. However, no matter how powerful the power of prayer, Harry's father can no longer appear in the world. People who have experienced depression feel heartbreaking when they hear the phrase "No one can save you," because dependence is rejected and despair for fear that it will never be the day. In the emotional cobweb, we can also clearly feel-this is not who we like, this is not the life we want.

but even if the savior takes you to another dimension, you are still you. What we desire is not to escape to another dimension, but to feel the "world" like the "savior". No one can wake up a person who pretends to sleep, just as no one can taste the sweetness of strawberries for us. What we want is to become a "savior".

how on earth did Harry defeat the dementors on his own? By consulting Professor Lupin, Harry learned of very profound magic, that is, the Guardian mantra. The mantra of the Guardian mantra is to call the guardian, which is the paraphrase of the Latin Expecto Patronum. This Latin means "waiting for an escort". A patron saint can be summoned when the patron saint spell works correctly. The patron saint is a kind of thing that protects against dementors, is a kind of guard, and acts as a shield between the caster and the dementors. It is a positive force, and what it advocates is the dementors' food-hope, happiness, the desire to live-but it cannot feel as desperate as real people, so the dementors cannot hurt it. When it works, silver gas is ejected from the end of the wand, eventually forming a silver animal. Each look is different, and it has something to do with the wizard who summoned it. [7] for this mantra to work, one needs to try his best to remember something happy when pronouncing "Guardian of God". Harry chose interesting happy memories. He chose not any of his experiences at Hogwarts, but the memories of escaping from his aunt's Dursleys.

Harry summons a formed patron saint for the first time. The memory he chooses is that he discovers that he is a wizard and is leaving the Dursleys to come to Hogwarts to study. Harry felt a strong sense of joy as he tried to remember how he felt when he knew he was leaving Dursley's house. After Harry and Sirius met, Sirius expressed his desire to live with Harry as a godfather. Harry is so overjoyed that it has always been his wish to have a normal family. So, when he was finally besieged by hundreds of dementors, Harry blinked angrily to see more clearly to protect himself and Sirius, and he kept repeating, "I'm going to live with the Godfather. I'm leaving the Dursleys!" [8] Nietzsche once said that: He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; struggled with the dragon for too long and became the dragon; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee... Gaze into the abyss for too long, and the abyss will return to gaze. If people live in a distorted environment for too long, they may lose their desire for a normal life, because their beliefs will be destroyed. But similarly, people's beliefs can also be rebuilt.

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the Dursleys were Harry's only family after his parents were killed by Voldemort. But this Muggle family is hopeless and hides Harry's existence from the outside. They are disgusted with and suppressed everything about Harry. It is this inescapable native family that has brought Harry endless depression and loneliness over the past eleven years. The darkest memory in Harry's mind is the night his parents were killed by Voldemort, and his most painful experience was living under the Dursleys. As a result, Harry's happiest memory is to get rid of this past nightmare, get rid of the family's control over him, and live another truly human-like life. Recalling these moments, Harry will gain the courage to stand up and repel the dementors who try to drag him back into the abyss. The guard summoned by this memory can stop the dementors because it advocates hope, happiness, and the desire to live like human beings, and because it is an immortal faith, it does not feel as desperate as real people in the face of dementors. Harry's patron saint is his belief in pursuing another life. Just as in the emotional cobweb, we can feel that this is not the self I like, this is not the life I want. And once we find a gap into another life, strength will gush out from the bottom of our gloomy hearts like a guard.

when Harry traveled back in time to meet his savior, his father, he suddenly realized that what he had seen was himself. Harry decisively pulled out his wand and shouted "God's Guardian" to save himself. A glowing stag rushed to a large group of dementors, who retreated, scattered, and disappeared into the darkness. [9] when Harry realized that he had been saving himself, he finally completed the reconstruction of his trust, built his new bottom line, and further built the belief to continue to pursue the life in mind.

Rowling used cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of depression. This set of psychotherapy, developed by A.T.Beck in the 1960s, holds that people's emotions come from their beliefs, evaluations, explanations, or philosophical views of what is happening, not from the event itself. At present, the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of depression has been recognized. Cognitive therapy often uses cognitive reconstruction, psychological coping, problem-solving, and other techniques for psychological counseling and treatment, of which cognitive reconstruction is the most important. Ellis (Ellis) believes that the explanation and evaluation, cognition, and belief of an individual to this event is the root cause of his emotion and behavior. Unreasonable cognition and belief cause bad emotion and behavior reactions. Only by dredging and talking to change and reconstruct unreasonable cognition and belief can the therapeutic purpose be achieved. Baker also pointed out that the root causes of psychological difficulties and obstacles come from abnormal or distorted ways of thinking. By discovering and mining these ways of thinking, analyzing and criticizing them, and then replacing them with reasonable and realistic ways of thinking, we can relieve the suffering of patients and make them better adapt to the environment. We mentioned earlier that people with depression have a set of automatic negative thinking patterns, and core beliefs (similar to world views, values, etc.) are the core parts that support each automatic thinking, and they are also the driving force to guide and promote life. These beliefs will be regarded as absolute truths and that is the way things should be. Most people will maintain more positive core beliefs, such as "I am valuable." But people who experience depression often have negative core beliefs. When a person's core belief is "I am incompetent", then in life he will tend to selectively pay attention to some information related to this core belief, even if there is positive information, he also tends to negative interpretation. Will continue to believe and maintain this belief. [10] here I cannot professionally repeat the process of cognitive reconstruction. I can only discuss it in the light of my own experience. I know that when people break the wrong core beliefs and establish new beliefs, people can have new emotions and behavior patterns. And faith comes from our desire for a different self, a different life, this desire and every small step forward, every extra thing that makes us feel good, will help us accumulate the power of transformation. In the repeated battles between Harry and the dementors, he broke the tragedy and reinvented himself on top of it. Harry understood that his patron saint was himself, his belief in getting rid of past tragedies and pursuing a new life.

Lewis once wrote about My Dear Lucy: I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. in the opening inscription of Narnia. & nbsp; this story was written for you, but I didn't realize that girls grow up faster than books when I started writing. As a result, you are already too old for fairy tales,

you are too old to read fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still.

when this book goes to press, you will be even older. But someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. But one day, you will be mature enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. Then you can take it off the top shelf and dust it off. And tell me what you think. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, I may be too deaf to hear and too old to understand, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, but I am still your dear godfather.