Dr.
Ralph:
Depression is very often found with accompanying
Anxiety Disorders and it's important to be aware
of these
possibilities, so you can explain
and present them for treatment.
Offering Help for
The Many Challenges, Means &
Ways of Depression:
Part
1. A List Feelings & Issues You May Be Able to
Relate to.
Part 2. A Clinical
Listing of Types of Depression & Symptomology.
Sadness, Loneliness,
Despair, Hopelessness,
Guilt, Low Self Esteem,
Past Hurts,
Sleep
and Appetite Difficulties,
It's
Hard to Concentrate or Decide, Irritable,
Impatient, Can't Relax,
Withdrawal, Grief &
Severe Personal Losses & Changes...
I've Listed
Below Clusters of Experiences and Feelings in
Our Everyday Language that You My Be Able to
Relate to,
followed by a clinical description from
Wikepedia.
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PART 1.
Depression: Issues, Feelings...
*
For those Days of Profound Sadness, Loneliness.
*
Feeling Like No One Really Understands or Cares,
A Hopelessness, Moments of Low Confidence,
Self-Esteem Lapses, Never Not Good Enough.
*
Personal Fears and Concerns Out
of Proportion.
* Fatigue,
Energy Drained, Withdrawal, Irritability,
Super Sensitivity, Guilt and Defensiveness...
* For Major Depression ~ Recurrent &
Single Episodes.
Except For
Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depression.
* For Dysthymia ~ A
Chronic, More Subtle Depression.
* Adjustments and
Reactions to Severe Personal Losses
and Trauma from: Mistreatment, Degradation,
Major Changes
through Divorce, Terminal Disease, Grief, Job,
Locale,
Status Shifts, Marital, Parenting & Familial
Difficulties.
* For The
Serious and Debilitating Attack of The Blues...
* A Childhood History of
Victimization, Mistreatment,
Sexual Molestation, Degradation, Humiliation,
Physical, Verbal and Mental Abuse and the Daily
Guilt and Fear of Being A Victim or An Innocent.
* Marital and Parenting Concerns,
Direction, Coaching and Counseling.
* Adults with Controlling, Critical, Negative,
"Never Good Enough" and Guilt Maker Parents.
* Help for Your Children and Teens Who Are
Growing Up, Suffer from Depression & Anxiety &
The
Many Adjustments to Life's Changes, Fears,
Trauma and Reactions.
Feeling
Sadness, Loneliness and Hopelessness:
* For Those Days of Sadness,
Loneliness, Feeling Like No One
Really
Understands or Cares, A Hopelessness, Moments of
Low
Confidence or Self-Esteem, Never Good
Enough...
* I'm grateful for my life but I feel somehow
isolated.
* Even in a crowd or with friends I feel like
I'm alone.
* I'm kind of lost and don't know where to turn.
* It's easy to cry or hard not to.
* There's a cloud of sadness around me.
* Yes I'm well off. It seems people believe that
therefore:
I don't suffer & I should stop complaining & get
grateful.
* I'd really like to talk to someone about
this...
* It seems no one really cares or understands.
* For a long time now, I have felt never good
enough!
* I feel walled off. No one's listening anymore.
* I'm really frustrated. I just can't seem to
get through.
* I'm not heard, valued, appreciated or
understood.
* I'm always wrong. It seems everything's my
fault.
* There have been so many broken dreams and
promises.
* Discouraged - Despair - Hopelessness.
* I'm so very tired of all of this.
* It sounds childish & ridiculous but I just
feel like running away.
Feeling
Tired - Can't Get Moving
* There's no energy. I
can't get motivated.
* It's as if I'm in slow
motion or in a fog far away.
* I don't feel very much
like having fun anymore.
* I've been withdrawing
from friends and family.
* I'm spending more and
more time quietly alone.
Grief and
Severe Personal Losses Can Cause Depression.
* The are so many things that hurt badly when we
lose them.
* There's the loss of our plans, dreams and an
entire way of life.
* The loss of a life's work in retirement and
simply getting older require serious adjustment.
* Whether it's
temporary or long term, the loss of our
physical freedom and imposed limitations is very
hard.
* Being forced to stay at home, from disability
or illness can go from being boring to becoming
severely depressive and disheartening; from
quiet to severely loneliness and hopeless.
* The most severe pain is when we lose someone
we dearly love.
* Sickness, disease accident and death are harsh
realities.
* Suddenly we are shoved, roughly into another
unpleasant world.
* There's nothing you can do to make things the
way they were.
* There's the sickening feeling of emptiness and
loneliness...
* You never know
when something will trigger a memory,
and
then the tears...
* Will today be a good day or a sad day or an
anxious day.
* There are the
frustrations, limitations, changes, adjustments
and overwhelming changes and responsibilities.
* And there is
also the anger, rage and guilt.
Why God?
Why God me? Why God now?
* Will it ever
get better? Do I really want it to get better?
* I'm so tired.
I want to give up. No, I must go on. Why?
Past
Hurts and Abuses.
Still haunt me and my
today relationships
A parent who is
controlling and a guilt-maker.
A partner who is critical and devaluative.
It's never good enough! They're unpleasable!
I'm afraid to trust, then
I do, and get hurt again.
I seem to have a knack for
picking the wrong mate.
How do I stop the cycle
and get off this merry-go-round?
How do I say no or take
care of myself without feeling guilty?
Guilty -
Low Self Esteem in Some Areas.
* How do I say no to people or take care of
myself without feeling guilty?
* I feel wrong sometimes without a reason.
* I shouldn't
feel this way. God has blessed me
and I
have so very much to be grateful for.
* I sometimes feel worthless, useless or like a
failure.
* Apologizing or saying "I'm sorry" too much.
* Excessive
blaming or criticism of yourself.
Really when
I think about it, I'm my own worst enemy.
* I don't think I really like myself very much.
* I sure don't like being alone with myself.
* I've lost some of my confidence. I know I lost
my edge.
* Afraid to take a chance and try much that's
new.
* I didn't do
anything wrong. Why do I feel guilty?
Despair
- Hopelessness.
* I just feel like giving it all up.
* I'm so very tired of all of this.
* I'd like to run away or move.
* I can't hang on much longer.
* It seems nobody cares anyway.
Sleep,
Appetite & Weight Difficulties.
* Too much - Too little - Changes - Problems.
It's
Hard to Concentrate or Decide.
* Feeling overwhelmed or stressed out.
* Preoccupied or confused sometimes.
* Forgetting things and embarrassed about it.
* I'm a little concerned - Am I losing my grip?
Irritable
- Impatient - Can't Relax.
* Sudden mood swings and overreactions.
* People seem to take forever to do things.
* Becoming more critical, picky and negative.
* Feeling restless, antsy, I have to keep busy.
* Super sensitive - My feelings are easily hurt.
* Over Defensive - Unnecessary counterattacking.
Basically We first need to Talk,
Discuss and Get to Know and Understand the Kind of Depression You're
Suffering from and then We Can Begin a Program of Relief.
If you can relate to, or feel comfortable with, some of the
feelings, thoughts and treatment options listed above, and you'd like to
make some changes and get relief, You can contact me through our
* Home Page Directory.
Answers: To Learn How God Sees You and to Really
Get
in Touch with Who You are and What You
have to Offer.
YES, both the Negative and the
Positive. Yes Your Personal
Gifts and Talents to This World and To Help
Others and NO, Not just
the Down Side
Anymore. AN HONEST LOOK AT YOURSELF!!!
Answers: To Sensibly Talk through, Understand
and Finally
Obtain the Complete Depth and
Healing Available from
Accepting God's Love
and Realizing The Power of Applied
Forgiveness in All Areas of Our Lives.
Answers: Find A
Comforting and Powerful Relationship with
God, Who is Always Present, and Finding An
Acceptable and
Realistic Means to Receive
the Benefits of This Relationship and
Then Learning How to Access Him ANYTIME and
ANYWHERE!
Basically We first need to Talk, Discuss and Get to Know and Understand
the Kind of Depression You're Suffering from and then We Can Begin a
Program of Relief.
If you can relate to, or feel comfortable with, some of the
feelings, thoughts and treatment options listed above, and you'd like to
make some changes and get relief, You can contact me through our
* Home Page Directory.
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