Depression

While everyone experiences bad days when he/she feels sad and hopeless, depression is much more serious. In addition to these feelings, individuals struggling with depression may also feel empty, apathetic and their physical health can start to deteriorate.

While we often think of someone struggling with depression as feeling just sad and hopeless, consider the questions below that may be symptoms of depression that are less apparent to you.

  • Do you play and re-play negative messages in your head that impact your mood?
  • Are you no longer interested in the things that used to bring you joy and comfort?
  • Do you appear happy to others but inside feel differently?
  • Do you walk around with a heaviness in your mind and body and find yourself isolated from others?
  • Are you angrier and more aggressive lately?
  • Is it difficult to concentrate and do you have less energy than you once did?

The way in which someone experiences depression can vary from person to person and individualized care is essential. Treatment for depression can help you gain a personal understanding of your experience and identify the source of your depressed mood.

It can help you incorporate new coping skills to manage symptoms as well as explore different perspectives on the current stressors contributing to your depression. It is important to make sense of past negative experiences and challenge potentially distorted thought patterns that perpetuate your depressed mood.

Whether biological or situational, depression can be alleviated with a variety of interventions.

“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”

- Barbara Kingsolver

Services

  • Complementary, 15-minute phone assessment
  • Individual Therapy, 50-minute session
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