Depression
Depression is not about the outside, it’s about what you feel inside
Yes, it can be hard to explain what you feel, why you feel, how you feel. You might have mustered up the courage to talk to someone about it only to realise how inexplicable what you feel is or how unempathetic people around are.
What you need is someone to listen to your agony, and help you rise above it.
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What is depression? Are you really depressed?
Depression is more than a state of mind, sadness, anger, stress, fear or anxiety. It is often confused with all of these. Put simply, it is the constant feeling of emptiness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in even the routine tasks. When all the negative and gloomy emotions persist for a constant and longer period, they turn into depression.
More than anything else, it is first and foremost a mood disorder.
“WHO claims more than 264 million people of all ages suffer from depression across the globe.”
Types Of Depression- Which one do you have?
To help you understand why you feel the way you feel, we have listed below any type of major depressive disorder.
- Chronic Depression
This depression goes on for over two years or more and makes the person feel sad and hopeless constantly. This is considered milder than the rest but does have the potential to worsen with time. - Atypical Depression
People with this type of major depression cannot handle rejection and feel extremely anxious. They often end up gaining weight, eat a lot more than usual, feel weak and sleepy for most of the day and hence end up sleeping a lot too! - Postpartum Depression
Many new mothers experience this major depression as they undergo a lot of changes physically, hormonally, and psychologically. The shift from a non-mother to a mother takes a toll on them. - Bipolar Depression
Ranging from mania to depression, the individuals who have this kind of depression suffer from mood extremes. Either they are highly energetic or very low. - Seasonal Depression
In this, the individuals feel depressed during a certain season every year. For instance, one might feel sad, hopeless and get socially withdrawn in winters when the sunlight is very low and the weather is shady and gloomy for most of the time. - Psychotic Depression
This is one very serious depression condition in which the individual experiences hallucinations, and has delusions too. The voice can be telling them that they are not good enough and make them feel worthless, or a sinner. - Treatment-Resistant Depression
In this major depression, the medication doesn’t work. So, if you are taking medication but it never seems to work, you might have this. Mostly a psychiatrist is needed for this to be cured. - If you doubt or are sure you have any of these, feel free to tell about it to your counsellor/ therapist.
Symptoms of Depression- Signs you are depressed!
Physical
Eating a lot or eating a lot less
Sleeping too much or sleeping way less
Being less energetic
Experiencing low sex drive
Weight loss or gain
Not willing to do routine tasks like waking up, bathing
Psychological
Losing interest
Losing enthusiasm and zeal
Avoiding interaction, not Socialising
A lot of negative thoughts
Feeling negative emotions and not seeing the bright side of anything
Suicidal thoughts
Emotional
Helplessness, no one understands
Hopelessness and feeling of despair
Worthlessness, and self-doubt
Agitation
Guilt and blaming yourself for everything that happened
Feeling frustrated all the time
Causes Of Depression- Why you might be depressed?
- Life events
- Personality
- Genetic factors
- Chronic pain syndromes
- Traumatic experience or exposure
- Future uncertainty or negative anticipation
- Childhood trauma
- Some prescription drugs
- Abuse of recreational drugs
- A past head injury
- Disturbed Sleeping and Eating Habits
- Medical or medicine induced Depression
- Work stress
- Bullying and Harassment
Why Us?
- Awareness of thought and behaviour patterns
Instead of allowing you to live in oblivion, we help the individual join the dots of the scattered thoughts that run in their mind so that they can understand the reasons and events that led to depression. - Healthy coping mechanisms
Relapsing is very common for depressed people and so we help them in building a coping mechanism with a blend of activities that promote self care. To make it easier for you, we help you practice them in the course of the therapy. - Positive, productive thought patterns
When you talk to a therapist/ counsellor you talk to someone who understands your feelings and thoughts but also sees every aspect neutrally and suggests to you an alternative thought pattern. So, by the end of the course, you end up being more positive, realise how unsupportive your current thoughts are and equip you to challenge them. - Emotion regulation Techniques
This is a special technique that you get to learn once you get in touch with one of our therapists. It helps you use your negative emotions to get productive so that you start feeling positive and happy gradually.
How can we help?
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy- It takes 5 to 20 sessions to evolve but is worth it all. In this our therapists may ask you to journalise the situation and your behavior to them for over a week. This will help you and the therapist understand your thinking pattern to later change them to a healthy and adaptive pattern of thinking.
- Psycho-education- This treatment is based on the belief that depression happens due to unresolved issues or conflicts from our past, especially childhood. So, the therapist takes note of situations that could have possibly led to depression. The client is made aware of the same and then an attempt to resolve those conflicts is made.
- Creative Therapy/Psychological therapy- Art in any form is considered the strongest form of expression. So, the therapist helps the client in getting the negative emotions like anger, pain, shame, guilt out. It gives a sense of self discovery.
- Mindfulness & Meditation- In this a combination of learning to control the mind through meditation and get some peace and a practice to stay in the present is done. The repetitive negatives thoughts and glances from the past are battled in this therapy.
In order to get the best results from your session, you must schedule your appointments at regular intervals, exercise as guided by the therapist.
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