therapy for depression

depression

The black sun; mourning; angst; melancholia; despair; loss; grief; the black dog.

Depression has become an unhelpful word – too broad to really mean anything. It covers many experiences, and manifests in so many different ways, for different people. You may feel numb and uninterested in the world around you, or perhaps in great pain, like you’re grieving for life itself.

Too often depression is reduced to the physical – low energy, appetite, poor sleep etc. These are important, but also only superficial symptoms. Beneath them, depression speaks to a very personal story. Often a story of loss. Not necessarily through death, or the loss of a relationship, sometimes something harder to define – the loss of a part of your past, a part of yourself, a hoped-for future. Perhaps the most universal experience of depression is the loss of your desire for life.

It can take time and space in therapy to tell the story of your depression, to listen and understand your own story, and to find your desire for your life again.