Clinical treatment of depression

What is depression?

Depression is a condition that does not have an adequate clinical definition but is usually used to cover a number of mental health challenges.

It has also become a ‘label’ but the problem is that a label can become the contents.

Depression exists in the present and there are symptoms. These can be alleviated by mental exercises or medication.

The source of depression?

The problem with this is that the source of depression exists in the past. Healing comes from revisiting the past so that it becomes revealed in the present.

Our lives exist on billions of split second experiences from the time we were born to the moment we are in right now in the present. Those experiences, as demonstrated by Neuro-science, are especially shaped in the first 3 years of life. In other words we largely exist, until we realise otherwise, in the realm of unconscious assumptions based on past experience. Feelings follow behaviour follow feelings follow behaviour.

The role of talking therapy

When we unearth our feelings in the present then we can do something about how we behave and feel in response. We can through therapy begin to understand and to respond to negative assumptions that create low mood. Disproportionate responses in the present can be understood and the myth dispelled to allow feelings that are accurate and helpful in our behavioural response