Depression describes a mood disorder that causes constant sadness and loss of interest. While depressed, the daily life flow of people can be affected and feelings and thoughts that will negatively affect the person such as lack of motivation, feeling of worthlessness, pessimism, unhappiness, guilt, death and suicidal thoughts may occur. It is quite common for depression to make people feel like they are in an impossible situation and this creates the perception of a never-ending process. It may seem like a situation that makes it very difficult to move at times.
The symptoms of depression are listed below. If you have been observing these symptoms in yourself for at least 2 weeks, I recommend that you start therapy.
- Constantly feeling sad or in a depressed mood
- Lack of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed
- Weight loss or weight gain unrelated to diet
- Sleeping too much or having trouble sleeping
- energy loss
- Feelings of pessimism or helplessness
- Unhappiness
- Inability to sit still, increase in purposeless physical activity such as shaking hands, or slow movements or speech
- feeling of worthlessness
- Don’t feel guilty about almost anything
- Difficulty thinking, concentrating, and making decisions
- Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide
- Loss of sexual desire
- decreased self-esteem
- No future prospects
Depressed people feel a lot of tiredness, helplessness and sadness. In addition, the person’s work life, social and family life is also affected. Although depressed individuals constantly feel alone, they perceive everything in a negative way and look at events negatively. Constantly blames and blames himself for what happened in the past. There is pessimism and hopelessness about the future. In addition, people are often unaware that they are depressed.
Depression is a treatable mood disorder, although it can cause a feeling of hopelessness due to its nature that affects one’s life completely. Although it is difficult to decide on therapy and take the first step, displaying a behavior in this direction initiates the healing process of people.
The process that will work when a depressed person comes to therapy is highly individual. The therapy method applied by the therapist can also create differences in this regard. In psychodynamic therapy, after the evaluation of the general condition of the person, the thoughts and feelings that develop in this process are discussed and the situations that may cause this are evaluated. The effects on the person are examined, and the person gains awareness by talking about which emotions occur in which situations.
Remember that although it may seem impossible when experiencing depression, depression can be treated. With an appropriate course of psychotherapy, you can cope with depression and feel better.
