How To Guide

Example 1

Terry Mill

Terry Mill is just one of the hundreds of thousands of people that have been diagnosed with clinical depression. His diagnosis was made more than ten years ago and his account, “How I Overcame Depression” details his struggle against the dark clouds that tried to overwhelm him every single day.

Terry describes the initial confusion of the onset of depression, explaining that he thought it would eventually pass on its own. He denied the fact that it was depression and suffered with it for too long. He suffered from various signs of the illness, including crying, insomnia and loss of appetite. Terry states that recognising have you have depression is the first step towards getting better and only then will you be able to find a therapist that can help you. He highly recommends therapy and states that it is important to make sure that you take your time to choose the right one.

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Example 2

Mada

Mada’s story is published on The Experience Project website as part of a group… Read More

Anybody can get depressed, adults, children, even pets. It is important to recognize the symptoms of childhood depression and treat it.

Depression is classified as a mental/psychological problem and often goes underreported and undiagnosed. For children it is imperative that it is treated otherwise it can cause many problems as the child grows up. It is often overlooked because children are also undergoing developmental and personality changes as they are growing. The sad truth is that between 2.5 and 8 percent of children under the age of 18 may be suffering from clinical depression.

What are the symptoms to look for?

Just like adults, children, too, can mask their symptoms and you may not know that your child is depressed. So what are the symptoms that you should look for?

• Change in behavior for no apparent reason

• Fits of crying

• Mood swings

• Feeling overwhelmed

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Depression can be very insidious and long drawn out and you may not even know that you are suffering from depression or be in denial.

It is quite normal to be depressed at particular times. You can be sad, unhappy, despairing or just feeling let down. After all, nobody can be happy all the time. There are times when it is all right to be sad and unhappy, as long as you get over it. However, there is a great difference between being occasionally depressed and constantly depressed. Clinical depression is a serious illness, affecting millions of people.

Symptoms of clinical depression

There are many symptoms, not all of which need to be present in a person who is depressed. If you have constant feelings of being overwhelmed, being on the verge of a nervous breakdown, getting either hyper or feeling low, there are chances that you may be depressed.

Other symptoms include:

• Suicidal thoughts or feelings

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Example 1

Depression is a holistic state of mind which takes over your entire life. Still, there are ways to get over it, to overcome its awful consequences on one’s life. It is so terrifying especially due to the fact that once you suffer from it, nothing seems to go well in your life and, at a certain point, everything starts going very bad.

This is the story of a man who seemed to lose it all, but found the strength to carry on and become again the master of his life. His mother and grandparents passed away in very short while, his father suffered from a stroke and his wife decided to leave him.

Faced with this situation, he fell into deep depression which he couldn’t have managed to overcome hadn’t it been for his friends, who gave him the power to move on. Also, he tried to get in control over his mind and body and find out how he could dominate depression instead of allowing him to dominate him. He found the context that lead to his… Read More

Iona

Students are a very special category when it comes to depression, because of the fact that this is the time when goals are set and stakes are placed. When standards are set too high, students who can’t reach them can fall into depressions and it can be very difficult to overcome. Iona is a senior nursery student who is frequently subject to depression episodes which affect both her state of mind and her power of control over her own body.

There is a long history behind these episodes that she has been having since she was 11. There have been a lot of problems during her teen years, lack of communication at school with her colleagues and friends, and with her parents.

Iona started getting better only when she accepted the fact that she couldn’t do it on her own and that he needed to get help and accept that the weight of the world does not lay on her shoulders alone. She accepted that sometimes things don’t turn up the way she wants them from the beginning. She… Read More

Two examples

Ellen

Ellen of California started suffering from depression after the sudden death of her father. She felt overwhelmed and found it difficult to get out bed in the morning. Finally she decided to see a therapist.

Her therapist helped her through the grieving process, and she was able to talk to her about anything and everything without being afraid that she was being ‘judged’. ‘Seeing a therapist has been an extremely positive, life changing experience for me. Equipped with the insight and interpersonal skills that I have gained through my experience with therapy I have grown into a more confident person who is much more patient with both myself and with others,’ she says.

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John

John says that he was suffering from depression since he was a teenager, but did not discover it till he was almost fifty. He felt his marriage was falling apart at around the same time. He finally hit rock bottom and found himself in hospital where the doctors were able to stabilize and treat him.

He is taking the right… Read More