THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION IN BARRIE ONTARIO
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WHAT DOES DEPRESSION FEEL LIKE?
Trauma is best understood as the lasting wound that is formed after a distressing event. Often trauma is held in the body, and can show up through symptoms like anxiety, anger, sadness, depression, trouble sleeping, aches and pains, difficulties in relationships, deeply rooted beliefs about oneself and others, and many more. Sometimes trauma is more repressed, and the symptoms of the wound may not show up until much later in life, while other times it can show up immediately ("acute trauma"), and create significant challenges for someone's daily functioning. Trauma can be singular, stemming from a single event, or cumulative ("complex trauma"), stemming from multiple events.
WHY DOES DEPRESSION COME IN WAVES?
Depressive "episodes" are periods of two weeks or more when we feel extremely sad, but we also have no interest in our usual activities, extremely low energy, and feelings of guilt or worthlessness. Most of us use the word depression to represent moments of intense sadness, rather than a literal diagnosis, but we may have periods of high and low mood depending on what's going on in our lives, our hormonal, chemical, and nutritional fluctuations, or our environment.
HOW DOES THERAPY HELP DEPRESSION?
Therapy can help you identify the symptoms of your depression that are most distressing to you and build up your confidence by creating a realistic plan to improve your mood. Therapy may also look at your relationship with depression if you have a tendency to wish it away, and work towards changing your attitude from hating your depression to accepting your depression.