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Depression

Depression or depressed feelings...

The feelings associated with feeling down, sad, alone, disconnected and so on are often immediately labeled "depression."

There is some question if this is helpful for someone who is feeling sad because their relationship has broken up (sadness will be part of the experience) or a friend or close relative has died (lost and alone will probally be experienced). Many life events and circumstances can lead to sad and lonely and despairing feelings.

These are NORMAL life experiences that our sociao-politico system sometimes see as not benificial... when people are sad thay do not work as efficiently and therefore are not as valuable, so please fix this person.

Whatever treatment you take up it is highly recommended you also investigate counselling and or psychotherapy alongside drug treatment.

Sign that indicate you are feeling depressed can include:

• unhappiness at work or at home,
• unhappiness that remains constant over a perieod of time
• unhappiness that cannot be explained by a situation that causes it,
• unusual loss of interest in favourite things
• unusually worried or doubtful about your life, relationship orwork,
• scared, frightened about things that are not easily explained,
• not feeling in control (at work or in your relationships or where things are changing around you)
• pleasure with activities you usually find fun feeling flat,
• not feeling you can settle or focuswhere you usually can do so,
• Feelings of suicide or thoughts about death (yours or those around you).... this is usually at the bottom end of the range of feelings around depression, but is by no means uncommon. CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR or trained proffesional if you are feeling these things.
• Some people have described feeling depressed as living life in black and white. This is usually described after they have found some relief from their condition. Depression can be elusive.
  

CBT - Cognitive Behavoural Therapy

CBT for depression consists of the therapist helping the client to understand the normal range of expected emotional responses and feelings all of us experience... and is often and usually remarkable effective in relieving the symptoms.

And it maybe all that is required. After all, all we want is to be able to get back to our normal range of activities, have some fun and enjoy most of the day. However, if the symptoms return; if the pleasure is just not good enough; if the job or relationship suffers on a long term basis because of feeling miserable or always arguing or feeling unloved and misunderstood, there may be a case for a deeper and more substantial series of conversations with a therapist.

Consulting a counsellor or psychotherapist can make a difference to your progress.

It has been suggested that one in five people in Australia have, or will suffer from depressed feelings to some degree. Many doctors say that over half their patients suffer from such feelings to some significant degree.

Having depressed feelings: ask for help. Counselling depression helps. Depression counselling can help you find your way out the darkness than often envelops people who are feeling depressed and gives them hope for a future of having some of the good things in life.

 

Mindfulness

Mindfulness can play a significant part in a counselling process that includes the concept of emotional intelligence or emotional competence. You participate in the process toward discovering different ways of being in your world. Mindfulness has varied meanings and my understanding of it is from a Buddhist tradition after the time of Lao Tzu (circa Fifth Century BC).

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