DEPRESSION
Is Depression Pulling You Away From All That You Love?
Do you feel weighed down by sadness, hopelessness or grief? Perhaps you are struggling to cope with a recent death, job loss or relationship issues, and you are finding it difficult to engage with the world. Or maybe you do not know why you have started to feel powerless to negative thoughts and emotions. You may feel unmotivated to fulfill your work responsibilities and spend time with your friends and family members, which makes you worry that your sadness could affect every area of your life. It’s possible that you have lost sense of joy and possibility, even in the activities and hobbies you once loved. Are you living with some of the burdensome physical symptoms of depression, such as fatigue, body aches, headaches, sleeping issues or muscle weakness? Do you wish you could relieve your emotional pain and live a happy, fulfilled life?
Depression can make you feel like you move through each day in a fog, disjointed from your loved ones, your responsibilities and your hobbies. In the morning, regardless of whether you tossed and turned all night or slept for many hours, you may feel very tired and dread getting out of bed to start your daily routine. You may even call in sick to work or cancel your plans for the day because you feel drained of energy. If you end up going to work, you might feel lost and ineffective, ultimately causing frustration and anxiety about your productivity. At the end of the day, you may feel like crawling right back into bed or watching television instead of spending quality time with the important people in your life. When you interact with your loved ones and friends, you may pretend to be happy, while inside, you feel cold, angry, distant and deeply alone.
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Losing Sight Of The Joy In Life Is Very Common
Depression is one of the most common mental ailments, affecting about 16 million individuals in the US. Although the symptoms of depression may make you feel isolated, regardless of what you’re experiencing, you are not alone. While many people may develop depression after experiencing a recent loss, such as a death of a loved one or a divorce, many others do not understand why they have lost enthusiasm and joy for life. Sometimes, depression can be hereditary and rooted in a chemical imbalance in the brain. Other times, individuals may feel like they have failed at accomplishing society’s expectations of raising a happy family, holding a successful job and having an active social life. Being exposed to the ideal images shared on social media may deteriorate an individual’s self-esteem even further, calling into question his or her happiness or worth.
It’s also very common for depressed individuals to struggle with anxiety. In fact, the two issues often come hand-in-hand and feed into one another. A person may feel worried about their incessant negative emotions or worthless because he or she cannot feel calm throughout the day. This can become a painful, destructive loop.
The good news is no matter how depression has affected you, you have hope to live a resilient and meaningful life. Depression therapy sessions can teach you how to work with your mind and body to create and experience lasting joy throughout your life.
Depression Treatment Can Help You Start Living A More Fulfilling Life
During nonjudgmental and compassionate depression therapy sessions, you and I will work together to understand how negative emotions have uniquely impacted your life. Drawing from your particular experience, we will develop an individualized plan to help you identify the triggers to your sadness, use body-centered practices to find relief and learn lifelong skills to be resilient to future hurdles.
Because living with depression is different for each individual, I will work to directly address your needs, while also taking into consideration your personal interests in different therapy techniques. We will go beyond traditional talk therapy to explore all of the potential triggers to your depressed feelings and develop effective ways to minimize or eliminate their impact.
Some of the therapy tools we may incorporate into depression counseling sessions include mindfulness, brainspotting and journaling. Learning to practice mindfulness, including breathing exercises, can help you focus on the fullness of the present moment, especially the positive sensations – an invaluable tool during sessions and in the future when you are feeling down.
If we determine that your feelings of hopelessness or worthlessness are rooted in a past trauma or a pivotal life moment, we may work with the brainspotting approach. Brainspotting allows your mind and body to heal from lingering pain in your past in order to move forward with greater lightness and confidence.
You may also benefit from journaling exercises to uncover the root causes to your low self-esteem. Through journaling, you and I can gain a better understanding of why certain thoughts leave you feeling depressed and physically drained.
You may believe that you have failed to resolve your depressed emotional state on your own and now feel even more hopeless. When you and I work together, you do not need to try to overcome your negative feelings alone. Depression treatment offers you the chance to learn more about why you struggle to feel happy, identify a route forward and take the necessary steps to find lasting relief.
It’s possible you are interested in treatment for depression, but you still have some questions and concerns…
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