Depression treatment

Depression is a word that individuals commonly use to describe a variety of states and habitual ways of thinking and feeling. As a therapist and NLP practitioner, I am always wary of “labels” given to people by themselves or others as a form of shorthand to describe conditions. These labels are, in themselves, broad generalisations, and within each individual, there can be huge variations in what is experienced. There is also a tendency once a condition is labelled, for the client themselves to become labelled, and then for a client to resign themselves to the idea that little can be done to help them. Many clients who research the assigned label for the condition then begin to imagine additional problems ascribed to the standard definition of the condition, which is, in itself, unhelpful.

Typically, people who are termed as having ‘depression’ have many of the following symptoms: sadness, despair, tiredness, lethargy, grief, frustration, guilt, anger, an inability to sleep, a sense of powerlessness, and a lack of enjoyment which preoccupies their thoughts and feelings.
Often, a person can recognise and even believe that they know the cause of the condition, but this does not affect the emotional response, which maintains this unhelpful state.