Depression
Barbara Reade, LCPC, Author
What is depression?
There are over 70 types of depression. However, two types of depression that can significantly interfere with ones life include major depression, and situational depression. Major Depression is the more severe form of this disorder. When you are no longer able to enjoy your normal hobbies and activities, or you can’t get up in the morning, or when the sense of sadness or depression has affected your ability to get along well with others, at work, home, or play, then it’s time to seek help. It can be immobilizing or unrelenting, or fluctuating, but t, and he feelings significantly interfere with the way you normally function. Situational Depression occurs due to a specific recent life occurrence that has caused you significant distress. If these symptoms do not recede in about 2 weeks time, then counseling can help you avert further problems and relieve difficult feelings and thoughts, before they turn into a more severe type of depression.
Are you clinically depressed?
If you are experiencing several of the following symptoms, and they just won’t go away, you may be suffering from clinical depression.
Treatment of Depression:
Treatment of depression helps to dispel negative thoughts and feelings. A client can learn to re-program his or her own thinking to then create more positive feelings and behaviors. Different people find different types of therapy helpful in their recovery. A well trained therapist can work with you to help you find out what type of therapy will be most helpful for you. Clinical Hypnotherapy and cognitive and behavioral approaches have helped many clients. For those whose symptoms relate to trauma or abuse, different types of trauma-based therapies can also be very useful. We our glad to offer all of these approaches within our counseling services.
Medication and/or Therapy:
For some clients, medication can be helpful for some period during treatment. However, the real and long term recovery from depression comes from learning to manage your depression symptoms on a day to day basis. Medication cannot change your core thoughts, beliefs, behaviors or feelings. As you change the way you cope with life stresses and difficulties, and learn more successful tools to do so, the need for medication often leaves or diminishes significantly. This is why therapy is so important for long term recovery.
If you have thoughts of suicide or harming yourself or others, immediately call your local emergency number (such as 911) or go to the hospital emergency room!
If you have a life threatening emergency please call 911 immediately!
Specialist in Internal Family Systems, EMDR, & Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Neurolinguistic Programming for treatment of: Trauma, Depression, Panic ,Parenting, Couples, Emotional Abuse, Stress & Addiction, Bipolar Disorder, Families, Codependency, Grief, Career Issues, Separation & Divorce, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
What is depression?
There are over 70 types of depression. However, two types of depression that can significantly interfere with ones life include major depression, and situational depression. Major Depression is the more severe form of this disorder. When you are no longer able to enjoy your normal hobbies and activities, or you can’t get up in the morning, or when the sense of sadness or depression has affected your ability to get along well with others, at work, home, or play, then it’s time to seek help. It can be immobilizing or unrelenting, or fluctuating, but t, and he feelings significantly interfere with the way you normally function. Situational Depression occurs due to a specific recent life occurrence that has caused you significant distress. If these symptoms do not recede in about 2 weeks time, then counseling can help you avert further problems and relieve difficult feelings and thoughts, before they turn into a more severe type of depression.
Are you clinically depressed?
If you are experiencing several of the following symptoms, and they just won’t go away, you may be suffering from clinical depression.
- You can’t sleep enough or you sleep too much
- You can’t concentrate or find that previously easy tasks are now difficult
- You feel worthless and/or hopeless
- You can’t control your negative thoughts
- You have lost your appetite or you can’t stop eating
- You are constantly irritated or become angry at even small things-a trait that is unusual for you
- You have a bleak outlook—nothing will ever get better and there’s nothing you can do to improve your situation.
- You no longer have interest in or ability to enjoy former hobbies, pastimes, social activities, or sex.
- You have significant weight loss or weight gain—a change of more than 5% of body weight in a month.
- You are experiencing either insomnia, especially waking in the early hours of the morning, or oversleeping (also known as hypersomnia).
- You are feeling “keyed up” and restless or, sluggish and physically slowed down.
- You feel fatigued and physically drained. Even small tasks are exhausting or take longer.
- You are experiencing strong feelings of worthlessness or guilt.
- Harsh criticism of perceived faults and mistakes.
- You have thoughts that life is not worth living, or have a plan for how you would end it (In this case you need to seek help immediately by calling 911 or going to your nearest emergency room)
Treatment of Depression:
Treatment of depression helps to dispel negative thoughts and feelings. A client can learn to re-program his or her own thinking to then create more positive feelings and behaviors. Different people find different types of therapy helpful in their recovery. A well trained therapist can work with you to help you find out what type of therapy will be most helpful for you. Clinical Hypnotherapy and cognitive and behavioral approaches have helped many clients. For those whose symptoms relate to trauma or abuse, different types of trauma-based therapies can also be very useful. We our glad to offer all of these approaches within our counseling services.
Medication and/or Therapy:
For some clients, medication can be helpful for some period during treatment. However, the real and long term recovery from depression comes from learning to manage your depression symptoms on a day to day basis. Medication cannot change your core thoughts, beliefs, behaviors or feelings. As you change the way you cope with life stresses and difficulties, and learn more successful tools to do so, the need for medication often leaves or diminishes significantly. This is why therapy is so important for long term recovery.
If you have thoughts of suicide or harming yourself or others, immediately call your local emergency number (such as 911) or go to the hospital emergency room!
If you have a life threatening emergency please call 911 immediately!
Specialist in Internal Family Systems, EMDR, & Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Neurolinguistic Programming for treatment of: Trauma, Depression, Panic ,Parenting, Couples, Emotional Abuse, Stress & Addiction, Bipolar Disorder, Families, Codependency, Grief, Career Issues, Separation & Divorce, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder