Depression: Symptoms, Causes & Recovery
What are the symptoms of depression?
If you are feeling many of these, you could have depression:
Fatigue / Low Motivation
Persistent negative thoughts
Loss of interest in passions, friends, work/school
Sleep Issues
Weight gain or loss
Low concentration
Suicidal Thoughts
Feeling sad most of the time
Anger at self
Some causes of depression?
Depression is believed to be the results of a chemical imbalance in the brain that impacts your mood and body. This imbalance in neurotrasmitters (serotonin and dopamine) can be the result of grief and loss, a poor relationship, feeling oppressed (like you have no freedom), inherited, or from poor thought management. It often stems from a ‘life imbalance’.
How can a counsellor help heal Depression?
Working with clients with depression is one of our specialist areas. In fact, Are You Listening? Life is Talking to You (which is the basis for the PLP: Passionate Life Program) was written to help people heal from depression and reduce anxiety symptoms. When our counsellors are with a client who has depression, we do a thorough assessment using the Life Balance Wheel to determine how connected client is to their life, how their brain chemistry may be (based on diet/exercise/medication and recreational drugs), how they see themself, how socially connected they are, and we gently delve into any past traumas/grief, to identify any grief, anxiety, trauma to nervous system. We also check on the state of the clients relationships, as depression can often occur when someone is not assertive, and is feeling ‘walked on’.
Why do my Depression Clients recover so fast?
When a client recovers from depression, they usually leave suicidal thoughts behind, very fast. Why? How? As our assessment in the PLP is very thorough, and the tools our PLP trained counsellors give (and therapies) are focused and tailor made, the changes happen fast. Some of our counsellors are able to use a technique called Brainspotting, which causes fast subconscious healing. All our counsellors are trained in Somatic Therapy, which uses the connection between the body and the brain to start unprocessed emotions to process. The results are astounding.
Just like Relationship Counselling, Healing from Depression works fast when The Client:
1. Knows why this depression has occured
2. Know what to avoid
3. Knows what to do (homework) to feel connected to life again…
2. Know what to avoid
3. Knows what to do (homework) to feel connected to life again…
Our counsellors love helping people heal from depression... It's one of our favorite things in life.
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