DEPRESSION
What Is Depression?
When healthy people give emotional reactions such as distress, sadness, and grief against unwanted or disappointing events, these feelings are called depressive feelings. Depressive feelings are a normal part of life. What distinguishes depression from everyday life indisposition and joylessness is the severity and duration of the symptoms. In order to be able to diagnose depression, the symptoms should continue for at least two weeks and should be effecting the professional and social life of the person. Clinical depression is a serious disease that affects the brain. Depression is not a personality trait. Depression is not a condition or sauciness that one should get over it alone. It is a serious mental illness that needs to be followed with an expert. What are the Symptoms of Depression? As a brain disease, depression is a set of symptoms that occur as a result of disruptions in feelings, thoughts, behavior and bodily functions through reflections on disturbances and irregularities in the brain functions. Not all symptoms may coexist in each patient.
Basic symptoms are:
- Thoughts full of pessimism, failure, hopelessness,
- Continuous boredom, loss of interest (Like quitting sports, dance, music etc.),
- Irritability (Getting pissed off easily and quickly, overreacting), moodiness,
- Social withdrawal,
- Reluctance to go to school or work,
- Decline in academic success,
- Changes in sleep habits, too much or little sleep,
- Somatic symptoms such as frequent headache, abdominal pain,
- Behavioral problems, (Such as escaping from home, objection, defying)
- Alcohol abuse,
- Feeling sad or empty,
- Difficulty in doing things that were once enjoyable, or not doing at all,
- Weight gain or loss,
- Energy loss,
- Feeling worthless, excessive or unjustified and unnecessary guilt almost every day,
- Instability,
- Recurrent thoughts of death (not fear of dying but thoughts of suicide or attempts to commit suicide)
DEPRESSION
How is Depression treated with Psychotherapy?
The treatment of the depressed person is carried out by a clinical psychologist who is an expert in this field. During therapy, the aim is to help the symptoms of the disease, behavioral problems and the individual's personal development. In therapy; the most helpful methods such as Cognitive therapy, Interpersonal therapy, Schema therapy and Hypnotherapy are used. The treatment is carried out as individual therapy or family therapy. The most commonly used method is BDT+ hypnosis. BDT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) works on basic thought and belief systems. The clinical psychologist who continues the therapy works with the patient to recognize feelings, thoughts and behaviors that are not functional, and create a realistic perspective instead of them. Interpersonal therapy focuses on the relationship of the individual. In hypnotherapy, the past is taken into consideration, false beliefs are changed and rehearsals of the future situations are revived in mind and the person is permanently distanced from thoughts and emotions that create depression. With these techniques learned by the individual, the recurrence of depression in the following years is prevented.
In mild depressions, treatment just with psychotherapy may be sufficient. In moderate to severe depressions, psychotherapy is useful in addition to medication. Scientific research has shown that the rate of depression's recurrence is %80 for patients who are recovering only with medication. However when therapy is added to this treatment, i.e. when medication + therapy are combined in the treatment process, the rate of recurrence is %30.
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