You will be shocked to know that more than 300 million people are suffering from depression globally and India ranks top in depressed countries. In fact, India is home to 57 million depressed people (nearly 18% of the global depressed population) as per WHO.
Depression is a widely used term in the society but there are a few who understood it properly. It is often misunderstood as sadness, anxiety, tension, frustration, and anger. But depression is much more than a common sadness episode.
Depression is not just a mood fluctuation or short episodes of sadness due to everyday problems, but it is long last and severe health condition. It affects the overall well being of a person, leads to function poorly at work, and also affect social life. In the worst scenario, it can also lead to suicide. In fact, depression is the second most common cause of suicides every year in India.
In medical terms, depression is actually a mental disorder, but it also affects your physical health and overall well being. There are several symptoms of it both physically and mentally.
Depression is not limited to affect only your health but it will also affect your studies, career growth, business, and professional growth. It can affect your studies, performance in office, business decision ability, and much more. The common effects are:
Depression will also have a significant impact on your social life and this is not a minor thing. According to Harvard University research, people who are more socially connected with friends and family tend to live more in comparison to them who don’t. The most common ways depression can alter social life are:
As per the professional counsellors, therapies are the best possible way of dealing with depression and other mental disorders. In therapies session, the counsellor will identify the underlying problems which cause you to feel low. The counsellor will focus on your negative thoughts, emotions, along with your physical problems and behavioural issues.
You wouldn’t be judged for any of your answers and you would able to speak out everything causing you trouble.
The different types of therapies involved are:
This therapy is the major treatment for depression. It focuses on both the main causes of depression: the negative thoughts and the behavioural pattern contributing to depression symptoms.
In this therapy, the counsellor will ask you to keep track of the activities that happen in the week and any incidents make you feel self-defeating and negatively reacting. As you will identify the responses and situations, the therapist will help you learn new thinking patterns and ways of responding.
CBT therapies sessions often include a “homework” which involves keeping a journal, practising relaxation activities, reading, and others.
As social relationships can also be the cause of depression, this therapy focuses on social conflicts. In this therapy, the counsellor will examine your social relationships with the important people of your life such as a spouse, family, friends, and also co-workers. The goal is to identify the role of these relationships in your life and find ways of resolving the conflicts you are facing.
The counsellor may advise you to improve your communication and implement new ways of building relationships. The counsellor will also suggest you
The counsellor will also talk about your involvement in physical activities along with your current dietary schedule. He will introduce yoga, meditation, healthy diet plans and also sleeping patterns in your life.
The counselling is not limited to talking about the underlying issues of your problems but the counsellor will also help you to know your true interest such as in art, music, sports, and others.
Talking to your friend is absolutely free, however, the desired cognitive and emotional skills require for happier life can be given by only working with a professional counsellor.
Working with a therapist and talking to a friend is a lot different. While conversing with your friend, you would be able to share your problems but you would have fear of getting judge. Probably your friend gives you even advice, but this is just a fraction of the actual counselling session.
Unfortunately, in films and serials like Dear Zindagi, we see counselling sessions about just talking, but that is just a surface layer of therapy. A professional counsellor counts each and every detail causing you depressed and will give you the right advice and suggestions for making you happy.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration if we say, one can found his/her life-changing after the counselling. The results are really great if one applies the suggestions/advice of the counsellor in daily life. You can expect a number of great outcomes:
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