About Depression and Therapy
By Caroline Kendal MBACP (Accred)Caroline Kendal offers Counselling, Psychotherapy
About Depression
Each person’s depression is unique and reflects their personality, lifestyle and history.
Depression
can vary from sadness and lethargy to feelings of isolation and
despair. With a less intense depression, we are still able to
function but it can be a struggle to find the energy and motivation. Life becomes dull. We lose interest in things we normally enjoy. Our
sleeping and eating patterns change and we may stop bothering with our
appearance. We might feel unable to use our initiative, concentrate or
make decisions.
Feelings of isolation, self-hate and hopelessness characterise
stronger forms of depression. Our thoughts become punitive and we see
no light at the end of the tunnel. What makes this depression darker
and harder to bear is that we often suffer guilt for having these
thoughts and feelings. Our sense of unworthiness can mean that the
most basic forms of communication are beyond us. We can feel so
doubtful or ashamed of who
we are and what we have become that we wish to hide. Contact with
others may result in having to expose the state we are in or face
suggestions to “cheer up” and “pull yourself together”, which only
reinforce our sense that we are suffering simply from self-pity rather
than genuine pain.
Therapy
Good therapists will not tell you to cheer up, they will just be there, unafraid of your depression.
Anti-depressants
can be effective at dealing with the symptoms. However, in my
experience, combining anti-depressants with therapy tackles the
underlying causes as well as the symptoms leading to more thorough
results.
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Updated 19|08|2009
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