When does depression go away?

I’m not sure that depression goes away.Many have compared it to the big black dog on a leash that follows you around.He’s soft and fluffy, and come on he’s a dog.But when he’s around you aren’t you fully, or at least where you want to be. Our job is to minimize that big black dog into a playful puppy that’s small enough to move off the couch when the depression has you in its clutches.The dog may always be there, but he can easily be a roommate than a demon in your personal and mental wellbeing. Everything comes with balance and patience. I’m Here to connect with all of my fellow humans to keep depression in its place rather than wave a magic wand and make it disappear.

Depression can almost always be helped. The treatment approaches that have been shown to be most effective in reducing depression include cognitive restructuring, medication, improving interpersonal relationships, and activity scheduling. 2.1.6 Cognitive Restructuring Depressed people tend to notice and remember negative aspects of their experiences more readily than positive or neutral aspects. They also are more likely to interpret their lives with a negative bias, while non-depressed people interpret events with a positive bias. Exercises in the following lessons will teach you how to test negative thoughts by reviewing all the information in your life-positive and neutral as well as negative. You will learn how to evaluate your negative thoughts and learn to think in more adaptive ways to reduce your depression. 2.1.7 Medication If you experience intense depression or long-lasting depression, or if your depression includes physiological symptoms, such as disruption in sleep, jitteriness, fatigue, or loss of appetite, you may benefit from a consultation session with a psychiatrist or another physician who can evaluate whether or not medication might be helpful. 2.1.8 Improving Interpersonal Relationships Some treatments for depression emphasize the importance of improving close relationships. If you are in an abusive relationship or a relationship with someone who criticizes you constantly, it can be hard to recover from depression. Couples therapy or family therapy can help you improve relationship conditions that may be feeding your depression. If you are being physically or sexually abused, almost all communities have special programs nearby to help you. 2.1.9 Activity Scheduling Activities can be connected to the way you feel. If you track feelings of depression, you may discover that when you are depressed you are more passive and less active. Following the observation that depressed people tend to stop doing pleasurable activities, depression treatments often emphasize increasing the weekly number of pleasurable activities. Additional ways to improve mood: • Surround yourself with people who have a positive impact on you • Invest in friendships and have a “go to” person that you can trust • Become more forgiving - forgive yourself and forgive others (http://letmebeme1.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/reach-steps-to-forgiveness.doc) • Build on areas of strength and note evidence for new beliefs that replace old negative beliefs (praise yourself for things you accomplish) • Keep a gratitude journal (http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Gratitude-Journal)