Our Approach to Depression
Websites:
The Omega-3 Connection by Dr. Andrew Stoll
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Recommended Reading:
LifeGrowth Psychological Services
How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping with Depression Fallout
by Anne Sheffield
Organizations:
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance:
Depression.org
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Depression is one of the most common mental
disorders in the United States and can
significantly impact a person’s daily life and
activities. In 2016, almost 11% of young adults
ages 18-25 had experienced depression as well
as 7% of adults ages 26-49. For all adults over
18, it is estimated that over 10.3 million adults
had experienced major depression that
significantly impaired their lives. For adolescents
ages 12-17, around 2.2 million or 9% of the
population ages 12-17 have experienced depression that has significantly impacted their daily lives. Of these adolescents, 60% did not received any treatment for their depression.
When you work with one of our specialists, you work together in identifying areas in your life that are contributing to depression and begin to take steps to overcoming its pull. Thoughts, behaviors, biological issues, nutrition, and relationships all have to be explored in order to reverse depression. Having a professional counselor who can act as an objective party that is there to support and guide you can be pivotal in changing the tides of depression.
- Symptoms of depression can be changes in sleep, changes in appetite, lack of concentration, loss of energy, lack of interest in activities, hopelessness or guilty thoughts, physical aches and pains, and suicidal thoughts.
- Trauma at an early age or significant changes in life circumstances can be major contributing factors to depression.
- For adolescents, symptoms can look like anger or emotional outbursts, inability to complete simple tasks, a change in normal behavior, sleeping too much, not sleeping well, or avoiding sleep, or withdrawing from friends and activities.