{"id":18,"date":"2014-12-07T19:21:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aztherapyhelp.cliftonbatchelor.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:02:30","slug":"depression-treatment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/depression-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

POWERLESS AND HOPELESS
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Regardless of what precipitates it, a sense of powerlessness and consequent hopelessness accompanies depression – the feeling and mood state that nothing you can do will change anything. We may not have power over other people and events. But focusing on what you are powerless to change or control is the primary influence on the development and maintenance of depressive thoughts and feelings and a depressed mood. Your thinking affects how you feel, and how you feel affects how you think. It’s a circular process. Looking at your situation from a different perspective alone can alter how you feel because you are thinking about a situation differently.\u00a0You can learn to change your thinking, and trust your thinking, so that you do not surrender your thinking to the powerful emotions that seem to have the validity that your thinking does not. And by changing your thinking, you can discover options you had not previously thought of or believed you could pursue. Your feelings and thoughts do not alone define you. You’re just having them, and they are not you. You know that because you can think about what you think about. That means there is more to you than just the thought or the feeling.<\/p>\n

TH<\/strong>ERAPY OR MEDICATION?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The research is very clear that psychotherapy alone is very effective at alleviating depression and its symptoms. Depression medications are also effective at alleviating depressive symptoms. But the risk of using medication alone for depression is that you are using artificially produced neurotransmitters to make up for your brain\u2019s lack of producing them in insufficient quantity. Without psychotherapy, you depend on the medication, and would not learn how to help your brain get back up to speed, to produce more of the needed neurotransmitters on its own. So you will either need more and more medication, or periodic changes in your medication, to continue to feel good. The side effects of some medication are of themselves reasons for depressive symptoms. Psychiatrists, who are M.D.\u2019s or D.O.\u2019s before they become psychiatrists, are the best trained to prescribe psychotropic medications for depression.<\/p>\n

Psychotherapy using Cognitive Therapy (CT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) are psychotherapy models that have been shown for decades to be the most effective form of treatment for depression. Using Cognitive Therapy (CT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) strategies and techniques, and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I can help you not only uncover the process involved in your thinking that contributes to the maintenance of depressed feelings, but how to use the strategies and techniques on your own to change how you think. And if you choose to use a medication, you can be confident that you are doing your part to help your brain become as self-reliant as it can be, and not becoming solely dependent on the medication.<\/p>\n

If you experience symptoms like the ones listed below and the symptoms persist over weeks and months, I can help. If you don\u2019t see an event or a symptom on the lists, and you want to discuss it, please call for a FREE 10-minute phone consultation<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Depression Symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Extreme sadness or depressed mood
\n\u2022 Lack of interest in activities that were once pleasurable
\n\u2022 Apathy and low energy levels
\n\u2022 Recent unusual weight loss or gain
\n\u2022 Difficulty focusing
\n\u2022 Loneliness or withdrawing from friends and family
\n\u2022 Feelings of helplessness and guilt
\n\u2022 Not being able to sleep or sleeping all the time
\n\u2022 Suicidal thoughts and feelings<\/p>\n

Events associated with depression:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Grief and bereavement
\n\u2022 Trauma
\n\u2022 Financial problems, unemployment
\n\u2022 Abandonment, rejection
\n\u2022 Addiction (drugs, alcohol, smoking)
\n\u2022 Relationship problems
\n\u2022 Hypothyroidism
\n\u2022 Poor sleep habits
\n\u2022 Social media overload
\n\u2022 Concluding a satisfying project
\n\u2022 Where you live
\n\u2022 Too many options
\n\u2022 Information overload
\n\u2022 Poor nutrition
\n\u2022 Poor sibling relationships
\n\u2022 Medications<\/p>\n

Please call\u00a0to schedule an appointment:
\n(480) 220-7050<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POWERLESS AND HOPELESS Regardless of what precipitates it, a sense of powerlessness and consequent hopelessness accompanies depression – the feeling and mood state that nothing you can do will change anything. We may not have power over other people and events. But focusing on what you are powerless to change or control is the primary …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapythatworks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}