Depression Counseling in St. Augusta, MN.

Depression is one of the most common emotional distresses we experience at one time or another in our life. Do you feel like you do not want to do anything? Do you feel you want to stay in bed all day? Do you feel like you cannot stop thinking that your life will never be better? "Do you feel overwhelming feelings of hopelessness?" When people are in the deep depression, it is difficult to turn things around. Your friends and family members may say just "get over it,"but you cannot. It is difficult. With appropriate help, it, however, will be possible to overcome depression.

Depression can feel like a heavy curtain around us. It can keep us from the life we want, make it seem impossible to feel real joy or excitement, and prevent us from feeling really understood. Depression is a result of innocent thinking that weighs a person down. Often a person's thoughts about how they wish they could change or be different become a person's biggest burden. When we start to notice our thinking we see how it affects our feeling and how it is always changing and not always accurate. We can begin to lighten our mental load and give ourselves a break. With that crack in our thinking our natural connection to life, to love, and to simple pleasures can return.

If you have tried every antidepressant available or would like to find another way to overcome depression, I can offer you hope. Sometimes by finding underlying issues we can discover situations (situational depression) which is the root cause and other times there may be a chemical imbalance where a medication might be the route to choose. Whichever method you choose, there are alternatives to discover and which I can offer.