Clinical depression is a mental condition that significantly affects the way someone feels, causing a persistent and significant low level mood.
Depression is often accompanied by a range of other physical and psychological symptoms that can interfere with the way a person is able to function in their everyday life. Often people with chronic depression find it even difficult at times to get out of bed, or function fully during the day.
What are the symptoms?
Depression has a variety of symptoms and will affect everyone in different ways. Symptoms may include:
- Feeling extremely sad or tearful
- Feeling emotionally flat or numb
- A sense of emptiness
- A hopeless feeling
- Disturbances to normal sleep patterns
- Loss of interest and motivation
- Feeling worthless or guilty
- Loss of pleasure in activities
- Changes in appetite or weight
- Loss of sexual interest
- Physical discomfort
- Impaired thinking or concentration.
How is depression treated?
When we treat a person for depression at Spiritual Healing Melbourne we take an holistic approach – considering the body, mind and spiritual connection to a person’s wellbeing.
The treatment for depression that we offer may include a combination of different psychological therapies and spiritual treatments depending on the needs of the individual.
Clinical depression is a chronic condition as as such it may take some time to heal. The sessions that we offer for all our treatments are progressive and the process will build each time we work together.
To develop coping skills, and be able to regulate your emotions more easily may take time but these skills are definitely worth developing.
How many sessions will you need?
You may have lived with depression for a long time, so it’s important to understand that for long term change it may take time depending on the individual and the cause of depression.
Whatever reasons for your depression you can expect to feel better overtime and with each session you can expect to gain more control.
If you have not found any relief from other more traditional therapies, maybe it’s time to take a new approach.
To book your first please contact Donna on 0424 300 678 or for your convenience book online so that we can start your healing journey together.