Depression

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

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’.

If you feel that you have depression, you likely will need to see a doctor.

However, you also need to become powerful in your life. PLP counsellors can help with specific tools to help you connect to your life again. Depression does not have to be permanent. PLP counssellors have transformed many people from 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’.

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. Our counsellors are also able to use Somatic therapy, which causes fast subconscious healing. All our counsellors are trained in Somatic Therapy, and evidence based EMDR, which uses the connection between the body and the brain to start unprocessed emotions to process. The results are astounding.

1. Knows why this depression has occured
2. Know what to avoid 
3. Knows what to do (homework) to feel connected to life again…