Do You Feel Too Exhausted To Keep Up With Life?
Have you been feeling unusually overwhelmed and irritable lately? Are there days where you don’t even want to get out of bed and go about your day? Perhaps you feel no energy or motivation to do the things you ordinarily love. Maybe you feel like you’re on a short fuse with everyone around you, and the littlest things get under your skin. You may feel like giving up entirely and even experience thoughts of hurting yourself.
When you’re dealing with depression, it often feels like you’re just sleepwalking through life. You may find yourself in a perpetual state of exhaustion that you just can’t seem to shake. Perhaps your relationships have begun to deteriorate, as you feel too depressed to spend time with others. You may start to feel like a burden to your friends and a drag on everyone else’s good time.
Depression has a way of sabotaging your best efforts to fight it and telling you your coping skills won’t work. This is why it’s so important to seek help. With the right commitment and support, you can break cycles of sadness and isolation and learn real-life skills for overcoming depression.
Depression: The Invisible Illness That’s Everywhere You Go
For all the talk about clinical depression these days, its presence is often elusive and hard to notice. Many people who struggle with depression look perfectly happy on the outside. This leads to increasing frustration for those suffering from it, since their struggles are invisible to everyone else. They often feel alone in the world, like no one understands them.
Unfortunately, our culture does little to abate the effects of depression. Our society is individualistic to a fault and leaves little room for community. And we’ve become profoundly isolated, a trend that has been exacerbated by COVID-19. Many people lack a strong support system and feel socially and emotionally stranded as a result.
Humans are social creatures, however. As cliché as it may sound, we need each other. This is why it’s so important to seek help for depression—no one can simply exercise their way out of it or overcome it by eating right (though those habits certainly help).
The fact is, depression frequently sabotages your best efforts to contain it. It has a way of convincing you there’s no need to reach out, since feelings of hopelessness are part and parcel of the condition. However, by consulting someone who is both highly educated about depression and deeply sensitive to your needs, you can take the first step towards healing in your life.
Depression Therapy Is A Time To Hear Yourself Think And Challenge Limiting Beliefs
Let’s be honest: sharing your struggles takes a lot of guts. It isn’t easy to sit down with someone and honestly talk about what’s really going on in your life. In counseling, you have a chance to vent, laugh, cry, and be yourself in ways you can’t in the outside world. Here, you will be heard, not judged. It’s a time to hear yourself think and look for patterns in your life that contribute to depression.
In the initial intake session, we will discuss what led you to pursue therapy and collaborate on a self-care plan for treating depression in your life. From there, I will provide psychoeducation about how depression works and help you develop a healthier outlook on yourself and your future. I will equip you with tools and resources to manage your depression and help you broaden your sense of human connection. No one can heal in a vacuum, and that’s why a huge focus of my approach is helping you build a stronger support system.
One of the central tenets of my practice is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The goal of CBT is to explore the limiting beliefs that have perpetuated sadness and self-doubt in your life. Oftentimes, we become so accustomed to limiting beliefs about ourselves that we don’t even question them—we simply take them to be reality. CBT will help you deconstruct negative self-beliefs and replace them with more wholesome, nurturing ones.
Depression is hard. It can affect every aspect of your life, impairing your work ethic, self-esteem, and ability to connect with others. The good news is it’s highly treatable. By making small adjustments to beliefs and behavioral patterns in your life, you can restore your sense of confidence, energy, and positivity.
You may have some concerns about depression therapy…
Will therapy exacerbate my depression?
No, it won’t. The very act of reaching out and seeking help is itself part of the healing process, and human connection is the bedrock of all self-improvement. We grow in pairs, not alone, and that’s why depression therapy is such a life-affirming journey. Here, you get to talk with someone who understands the nature of depression on both an intellectual and emotional level.
Isn’t exercising and eating right enough to cure depression?
I highly recommend exercising and eating right, as it can certainly improve your mood. At the same time, there’s a popular cultural narrative that doing so will cure depression. The trouble with this idea is that it ignores how deeply ingrained negative thoughts and beliefs are. Exercising and dieting may temporarily alleviate your symptoms, but often they cannot get to the root of your depression.
Do you ever recommend medication to clients?
As much as I wish therapy could do everything, it’s not all-powerful. Depending on the nature and severity of your depression, your therapy may require pharmaceutical interventions. I’ll never push you to try them, of course, but I may recommend them. I am happy to collaborate with any doctors and psychiatrists in your life, even if I do not prescribe medication myself.
Learn How To Treat Depression And Restore Your Sense Of Hope
Despite what your feelings tell you, depression doesn’t have to hold you back. Working together, we can empower you to conquer negative self-beliefs and embrace the future with joy. To get started, schedule a free consultation here.
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