Depression
Overcoming Depression
You can now be supported in a step-by-step way to overcome your personal challenges of: Depression, Negative Thinking or catastrophising. These daily challenges can greatly impact your life and stop you feeling motivated, energetic, positive and happy. This leads you to feeling tired, run-down, un-motivated and weighed down with dark thoughts. Although depression can occur independently, it can also go hand-in-hand with anxiety, stress or panic.
Common Depression symptoms may be one or more of the following: low self-esteem, early morning wakening, low confidence, downward mood swings, negative thinking, poor concentration and memory, low energy and motivation, lack of interest in activities re: school, college, leisure, sport, work, family, partner etc.
The above are a summary of Clinical Depression on its own. However, there are many other cases of Depression called Reactive Depression or Situational Depression, e.g:
- work
- family
- personal relationships
- post-natal depression
- menopausal depression
- PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
- disabilities
- parental split
- bereavement
- attachment
- abuse (sexual, physical or psychological/emotional)
- bullying (at work or home)
- loneliness
- abandonment
- children leaving home (empty nest syndrome)
- retiring (finishing work/career)
Separate to the above types and situations of depression alone, there is the case of Bi-Polar depression. This is due to a chemical imbalance in the brain. Overall, it differs from normal fluctuations in mood, due to the obvious intense and highly unpredictable surges down from ultra-high and happy (manic), down through to normal feelings, finally totally down to deep depression. There are many reliable medications which can be tried out for their effectiveness and tolerability on each unique individual. The very first widely used medication was in the 1960’s onwards, called Lithium, which was and is a natural occurring mineral. Since then there are many other Bi-Polar medications that have been tried and tested and licenced.
The most disabling, upsetting and debilitating symptoms of depression are the extreme lack of: energy, motivation, positivity, ‘yes can do attitude’. These symptoms are practical blocks and obstacles which needs to be overcome first. The second most common set of symptoms relate to self-esteem, confidence, social interactions. The third but also the most dangerous of symptoms are: feeling that life is not worth living, thoughts of suicide, plans of suicide, leaving notes of intended suicide, finally attempting suicide.