Learn Signs of Depression and What You Can Do About It
Depression vs Sadness
Sadness is a common emotion that can be triggered by a variety of events or losses. Sadness is a normal response to difficult times, and usually goes away. Sadness has a range of feelings associated with it such as grief, disappointment, and loss. Depression on the other hand is a mental health condition that causes a persistent low mood and loss of interest in activities that lasts for at least two weeks. Depression can lead to more severe symptoms such as suicidal ideations and changes in behavior interfering with function.
Depression Versus Sadness: How To Tell The Difference
Addressing Common Concerns
At CoreWellness, LLC, we know that depression has many faces. For some, they are able to “fake the funk” by continuing to show up for others while neglecting to care for themselves. For others, depression may look like anger or aggression and being easily irritable. For many others, depression looks like struggling to get out of bed, feelings of hopelessness, isolating, and more.
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Our therapists approach care with empathy and compassion first. We take a client centered approach and work to understand the person, not just the problem.
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Our therapists work to implement accountability by doing check ins for missed sessions and sending reminders for upcoming appointments.
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Our therapists use strength based approaches to help provide you with the encouragement you need until you are able to find it in yourself again. We also offer free consultations to match you with your good fit to increase the likelihood of successful treatment outcomes.
If you have concerns that haven’t been listed, but would like to know how we can support, please complete the form below, and a member of our team will contact you within 24-48 hours.
Therapy Used to Treat Depression
While there is no cure for depression, therapists at CoreWellness, LLC can provide therapy for clients to build resilience, learn coping skills, and increase awareness to place depression in remission. Our therapists use evidence based therapy modalities to treat depression such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and solution focused therapy.
How does CBT help?
Cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as CBT, is an evidence based therapy modality that has been proven to be effective in treating common symptoms associated with depression. During CBT treatment, a person can expect to focus on analyzing their thought patterns, emotions, and behavioral responses.
Below is some insight into topics that can be expected to be discussed during a CBT session:
Identify negative thoughts
Replace negative thoughts
Breaking down behaviors to outline problems and find solutions
Coping to build resilience and empowerment
Incorporating enjoyable activities
Acting out challenging behavioral situations
If you have questions about how CBT could be applicable to you, you can email us at admin@corewellnessteam.com or by filling out the form above.
How does DBT help?
Dialectical behavioral therapy, also known as DBT, is a form of psychotherapy that is skills based and focuses on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. How can this be applicable to someone who struggles with depression?
Learning mindfulness techniques increases a person’s ability to be in the present moment aware of their thoughts and feelings but without judgment.
Distress tolerance is our ability to process and manage uncomfortable emotions in a healthy way. DBT teaches the skills necessary to build distress tolerance which helps those who struggle with depression find remission through learning to make healthy choices in spite of discomfort and break the cycle of perpetuating depressive symptoms.
Being able to regulate emotions is a key component to successfully maintaining remission as our ability to regulate our emotions gives us a sense of control and stability needed to prevent relapse. Understanding that emotions are temporary can provide clarity through some of our most uncomfortable times which assists in making wiser choices in spite of the discomfort.
Healthy relationships are a major ingredient in the formula for preventing depression as well as finding remission. With DBT, interpersonal skills are taught to assist clients in practicing effective relationship building, identifying “red flags” in relationships, and teaching the skills necessary to navigate relationships.
How does Solution Focused Therapy help?
Unlike traditional therapy, solution focused therapy focuses on finding solutions in the present, exploring one’s hopes for the future, and utilizing appropriate coaching and questioning to find the best solutions. Solution focused therapy pulls on the strengths of the clients, finding exceptions to highlight factual alternatives to the current situation, reiterates to clients to do what works best for them, sets SMART goals to ensure success, and overall improves self confidence and increases hopefulness for the future. For someone who struggles with depression, being able to understand they are capable of rewriting the narrative to change the outcome of their own lives and learning to implement the exact steps necessary to see the positive outcome is empowering.
Additional Resources for IMMEDIATE Support
CoreWellness, LLC offers weekly individual sessions to assist mild to moderate symptoms of depression. Examples of mild to moderate symptoms include feeling sad, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, feeling tired, having low appetite, poor sex drive, isolating, etc. If you are struggling with more severe symptoms of depression such as significant decrease in daily functioning (i.e calling out of work or classes frequently, poor hygiene, going significant periods without eating, etc.) and/or having thoughts of suicide or self harm, please refer to the list of resources on our website for more immediate support.
