Everyone can and should feel sad sometimes. Sadness is a human emotion in response to loss, hurt and transitions in life.
Depression, on the other hand, is a mood disorder with a persistent sadness that undermines your life, eats away at your capacity to enjoy things, and impacts your functioning—maybe how you sleep, how you eat, how you work, how you love, how you live. Everyone suffers from doubt and critical self-talk: in depression, this becomes debilitating, intrusive, derogatory and crippling.
Nobody deserves to be depressed. Nobody deserves to be blamed for being depressed. And nobody should have to face depression alone. Living with depression puts debilitating pressure on our emotional selves.
There are many causes of depression. Sometimes a single event can trigger depression, and other times a confluence of factors are involved. At Empire Minds we will help you understand what is happening, will help you distinguish the necessary emotion of sadness from incapacitating depression, and together we will come up with a plan for therapy and treatment.
Fortunately there are a range of treatment options. At Empire Minds, a therapist will work with you to manage and improve your depression by creating an individualized approach and help restore your mental and emotional wellbeing, often using CBT techniques that have been shown to be effective.