Mood Disorders / Depression

Challenge

Are you experiencing low energy levels, unexplained sadness or finding it hard to motivate yourself?

Are you losing interest easily in activities you usually enjoy or have difficulty listening/concentrating?

Are you having difficulty seeing the positive and defaulting to negative thinking?

Have you withdrawn from interacting with friends and family?

People often find that symptoms of depression can be the accumulation of lots of small things over time, but equally one large event such as marriage breakdown can quickly trigger extended periods of low mood. It’s important to recognise that if some of these issues happen together over several weeks or are typically out of character for you, then depressive symptoms could be setting in.

Options

There is hope. There are effective, evidenced based treatments for depression. We would work closely with your GP as medical interventions as well as psychological is often the best approach.

There is a lot we can do to support, guide and assist you to improve your ability to cope and manage these problems. To find out more about how Northside Psychology may be able to help, get in touch with our team here.