Depression

If we had to divide psychological illnesses into just two types, they would be Depression, and Anxiety. While the first category of people tend to stay stuck in a rut of same thoughts, low energy, low motivation, and procrastination, the latter category of people have high energy and quickly find solutions and come out of problems in their life only to find themselves in a new problematic situation, and the cycle of moving from one rut to another continues.

The depressed people I have talked with, tend to be deep in thought. They tended to have a principled approach in their lives, and generally had ethical standards higher than the average society. They also tend to have a history of academic excellence and a higher than average intelligence. Despite their elaborate principles, higher ethical standards and morals, they often had a conflicted thought or an unprocessed trauma which has had destabilised their life and left them questioning their existence, their approach towards life, and a lost faith in humanity overall. Their liveliness has met with an accident in which they have lost their drive, willingness to take risks, and a pessimism has shadowed them to numbness where they neither feel pain, nor a drive to pursue happiness.

While medicines are helpful to restore hormonal balance, they should be resorted only after other preferable organic ways of healing, such as psychotherapy with the help of a conversational psychotherapist, has not been able to bring their attention out of the same rut of thoughts and feelings they often, unhelpfully, find themselves in. A skilled psychotherapist creates a comfortable environment in which the client can afford to be honest, vulnerable, and true to himself - an environment which facilitates the client to feel his/her own feelings which were otherwise not accessible to him due to certain inhibiting factors in his environment and within his psyche. In my conversational psychotherapy, I help my clients get past these inhibitions, in order to help them connect with their true self and explore their true potential.