Depression can stop you from living your life and being unable to function on a normal day to day basis. Depression can be triggered by different things. Some examples of this are bereavement, anxiety, lack of self-esteem, debt, losing your job.
Signs of depression:
- Empty, feeling numb,
- No pleasure in anything
- Upset, tearful
- Tired but unable to sleep
- Worried
- Angry
When depression takes hold it is difficult to see a way out. Every day seems like a battle. You wake up with a feeling of dread and wonder how you are going to get through the day. You feel like you have lead weights tied to your legs and arms. Even the simplest of tasks seem insurmountable.
How to treat depression
There are some steps you can take yourself to try and help how you feel.
- Fill your days with things you get pleasure of out
- Challenge your unhelpful thinking – where’s the evidence to support how I am feeling
- Try to get better sleep
- Keep a mood diary
- Try to eat healthily
Talk to some, which is where I can help
Depression can stop you from living your life when it takes hold, it is difficult to see a way out or how you can deal with things differently. Talking about how you feel can help you see that is there is light at the end of the tunnel.
We will start to look at how you feel on a day to day basis. Are there any times when it feels worse or occasions when it is debilitating? We will look at your mood diary, and begin to establish the triggers that cause your mood to dip and look for ways for you to deal/view things differently.
We will work on ways to challenge your unhelpful thinking and see if you:
Discount the positives in the things you do.
Overgeneralise things and expect everything to go wrong.
Jump to conclusions that things will go wrong.
Personalise things and blame yourself for everything going wrong, even if there is no evidence to support this.
We will work on ways to realign your thinking in a more positive way. We will work on a step by step basis and deal with the things in the order you want.
If you want help to beat depression and learn to live your life in a more fulfilling way, click on the button below to book an appointment
