Online Depression Therapy
Depression can be debilitating and negatively impact your relationships, career, and overall happiness levels. If you’re struggling with depression or wondering if you are depressed, reaching out to a online depression therapist can help.
Am I depressed?
You might be surprised to learn that many clients who are depressed don’t think they are when they start therapy for the first time. They come to therapy because they’re unhappy and feel like the reason they are unhappy is because they are lazy, unmotivated, and ungrateful for the good things in their life. When I explain that these are all common signs of depression, most people are shocked.
You can be depressed and still go to work. You can be depressed and have an amazing support system. You can be depressed and understand that you live an objectively fortunate life.
Depression is not one-size-fits-all
Depression can look drastically different from person to person. It can even show up differently for the same person at different points in their life. Because depression often looks differently from how we think it should, it’s easy for depression to go overlooked. And, people often suffer in silence for a lot longer than they need to before seeking help.
If you are depressed, you may feel unhappy, sad, and well, depressed, but it’s very possible you don’t feel those things. Many people who experience depression don’t actually feel that way. Instead, depression can be feeling nothing at all or feeling apathetic about things in general. It often involves beating yourself up and telling yourself that you’re lazy or worthless.
Depression can convince you that you’d be happier or feel better if you could just lay around all day binging Netflix and doing nothing else. It can make you feel like it’s not a big deal if you don’t shower or eat, and those things will take too much energy. If you notice these often overlooked signs of depression in your life, therapy can help.
Online depression therapy helps in so many ways:
People with depression often cope in ways that feel like they’ll help but actually make their depression so much worse. In therapy, you can learn research-backed ways to break the cycle of depression.
You can learn how to recognize symptoms of depression, which oftentimes feel more like personal flaws (a lack of motivation, low energy, neglecting personal hygiene or basic needs) than depressive symptoms.
You can learn effective ways to respond to depression (these are rarely instinctual).
Depression can be sneaky. It can feel like it’s your personality, but it’s really not. Learning how to separate the “depression voice” in your head from who you are as a person is empowering and effective in combatting depression.
Therapists are trained to pick up on signs of depression that can be hard to see. Your therapist can show you how to notice these symptoms of depression and respond to them in a more helpful way.
When your depressive symptoms improve, you will likely be surprised to find that life becomes much easier. Work, relationships, and the things you used to enjoy feel drastically different when you are not operating in a state of depression.
To talk more about your specific situation and how online depression therapy can help, schedule a free phone consultation by clicking the button below.