Most people feel sad from time to time. Most of the time, it is brought on by something we experience. It fades away as time goes by. For others, it doesn’t get better. Sometimes you may experience dramatic highs and very low lows. When this happens, you may have major depression. This is a clinical disease that warrants immediate help. Our team at Serenity Light Recovery can offer you the mental health treatment you need to battle this type of depression.
What Is Major Depression?
Major depression is a type of mood disorder. It occurs when persistent feelings of sadness, helplessness, and loss continue on for some time. It impacts every facet of your life. This includes the way you feel and how you think. It may lead to changes in your behaviors. Sometimes, it creates emotional and physical complications. It may impact your daily activities and leave you unable to see anything good around you.
A key hallmark of major depression is that there is no easy way out of it. You can’t just snap out of it, as some may believe. It requires mental health treatment. This type of treatment is an ongoing process of working with medication and talk therapy to understand what’s occurring, why, and how to deal with it.
Could You Have Major Depression?
The best way to learn if you have this condition is to visit with a counselor. He or she can diagnose your condition to determine if what you are experiencing is major depression or something else. There are many signs of this condition. Some of the most impactful include the following:
Feelings of Sadness
In depression, a person feels very sad. They may feel sadness that does not seem to be reflective of their day-to-day life or the events around them. Sometimes you don’t even know why you feel sad. This may include feelings of helplessness, emptiness, worthlessness, and tearfulness.
No Interest in Pleasure
Another component of major depression is in a lack of desire for pleasurable things. The activities, people, and experiences that you used to enjoy are no longer important to you. You may not engage in things you used to do at all or, when you do, you don’t “feel like it.” This may include sports, social events, sex, or other hobbies.
Changes in Physical Appearance
Though this may seem like a mental health concern only, it does create physical changes for many people as well. This includes slowed movements and speaking. You may have a lack of appetite that leads to weight loss or increased cravings that cause you to put on weight. You may also feel unable to sleep or the need to sleep all of the time. Some people may engage in more reckless behaviors, or they may have angry outbursts that are not characteristic of them.
What Can You Do When You Feel This Way?
It can seem impossible to overcome major depression – and it is hard to do without professional mental health treatment. Our team at Serenity Light Recovery can provide you with that guidance and support. You just need to take that first step in reaching out to our team. We offer a range of therapy programs to help you:
- Individual counseling programs
- Group counseling programs
- Dual diagnosis programs
- Yoga therapy programs
- Trauma therapy programs
Don’t Wait to Get Help from Serenity Light Recovery
If you believe you have major depression or that a loved one does, do not wait to get help. Instead, seek out a treatment program that can provide comprehensive help right away. At Serenity Light Recovery, we offer mental health treatment utilizing therapies that can give you the relief you need. Take the first step. Call our compassionate counselors at (281) 431-6700 for an appointment.
As our CEO, Heather’s main calling is to stay true to the vision of the organization, which is saving lives and striving to redefine statistics by raising the standard of care with evolving treatment methods. Heather studied psychology at LSU and both the main and Clear Lake campuses of the University of Houston, and she is a certified IASIS provider and CPI instructor. She’s been helping people in recovery since 2011. Heather’s motto to live by is “I am not what I’ve done; I am what I’ve overcome.”
