Are you pushing away people you care about, despite actually wanting or needing connection and support?
Have you experienced any of the following negative symptoms impacting your daily functioning:
Maybe you seem relatively fine from the outside, but you’ve been suffering in silence from feelings of hopelessness and despair. Perhaps you’ve been avoiding your responsibilities and relationships, missing work, or skipping social opportunities entirely.
The symptoms of depression can completely numb and disconnect you from the world around you. You may be feeling sad, lost, uncertain, or confused, and yet unable to communicate what you are experiencing. Depression also often leads to conflict and disconnect in relationships, whether professional ones or your closest personal bonds.
When depression has taken over your life, you have effectively gone into shutdown mode to protect yourself and your own emotional processing. If depressive symptoms linger over a long period of time, you can become stuck in this cycle of quiet despair. And because depression turns into such a drain on your energy, it can be difficult to muster the strength and courage to push through it on your own.
However, therapy can help you manage and alleviate clinical, major, or severe depression and move beyond it for good. At New Milford Counseling Center, we can help you reclaim your life from depression and build the one you actually want to live.
Depression Is Extremely Common But TemporaryUnfortunately, there is no shortage of reasons to make us depressed and feed our depression. In addition to the normal lows that come with everyday life, we are exposed to a constant stream of negative, depressing news and information, which can exhaust, overwhelm, and leave us all alone to navigate our depressive feelings.
Indeed, depression has become an extremely common experience, despite so often being such an isolating one. In a recent year, for example, there were 15 million “physician office visits with depressive disorders as the primary diagnosis,” according to the CDC—which at least means that these people sought help and support.
The urge to isolate is common with depression which can exacerbate the symptoms, when connection itself is needed to alleviate them. Sadly, depression is often unseen and suffered in silence. Some experience their depression as a weakness and feel shame over their feelings; others turn to substances to cope, which usually further complicates the underlying issues causing the depression in the first place.
Therapy can offer a healthy method of intervention, providing the catalyst for you to break free from your symptoms. Rather than avoiding the issue or trying to overcome it by yourself, a depression therapist can help you build the coping skills to improve your basic functioning, your relationships, and your daily life as a whole.
Unaddressed, unresolved depression can keep you stuck in a hopeless loop that can be difficult to break free from on your own. Over time, you can simply become used to the feeling without realizing there are so many resources out there to help you feel better. Counseling can help you build new patterns of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world that will loosen the hold that depression has exerted on your life.
We will determine your goals for therapy and examine how depression is impacting your daily functioning and holding you back. Depression can be rooted in difficult current circumstances or triggers, as well as past trauma, and we will explore the ways in which your history, background, and relationship and communication patterns may be contributing to your symptoms.
We use numerous modalities in our depression counseling work, including:
We combine cognitive modalities like CBT with somatic ones like mindfulness in our depression therapy work because we’ve found that to be the most effective. The goal is not only to address and alleviate your immediate symptoms but also to help you build the tools to manage your depression on your own when you’re outside of or have completed therapy.
With the help of a caring and engaged therapist, you can manage and move beyond your depression and live your life with confidence. We’ve helped so many clients work through these issues and come out on the other side with fresh perspective and optimism, and we look forward to working with you toward your own healing and peace as well.
The reality is that depression thrives in isolation, and you can only break that isolation through connection. Having someone to work through depressive feelings alongside can absolutely help shorten the length of time the depression lasts, in addition to providing you with invaluable support along the way.
The truth is that therapy does take time, and you may understandably feel as though your time is limited. However, many people find that they end up with more time after they seek therapy, as the work done in counseling helps them be more efficient and productive with their time overall.
Finding the right depression counselor is indeed crucial to your treatment, and the therapeutic relationship is every bit as important as the method of treatment you receive for depression. At New Milford Counseling Center, we will attempt to pair you with someone who aligns with your goals and values. And if your therapist is not a good fit, we will work to match you with one that you are more comfortable with.
If you are coping with depression and its symptoms and you could use some support and understanding, therapy with New Milford Counseling Center can help you get back to living your best life.
Please contact us at 860-740-2228 or use our contact page to connect with us.
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