3. Get over your depression and extreme sadness...
 

Depression is extreme sadness, which can be mixed with guilt and/or shame, but which is stuck because the individual is pushing it away, instead of embracing it.  We have to embrace our sadness, and make sure it is appropriate to our circumstances.  We have to learn to think through our sadness, and to only expose ourselves to sadness which is appropriate to the truth of our experiences, and not to the fantasies of our apparent experiences.

Dr Jim Byrne

January 2010
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Depression is About Loss, Failure, Hopelessness and Helplessness

Depression is a painful, discouraging and draining condition.  Life looks bleak and dull, and bad feelings seem to fill our bodies as well as our minds.  Sometimes individuals become depressed because they get stuck in the grieving process.  That is to say, they lose something or someone significant to them, and thus they need to engage in appropriate sadness.  But they push the sadness away, and get stuck with long term depression instead of short term sadness.  The trick with grief is to feel the sense of loss keenly, and thus to complete it.

At other times individuals are not clear what they have lost, or how they have failed, because it is all symbolic.  This takes some unravelling, but I can normally help people to identify the triggers that initiated their depression, and also the remedies that will lift the black cloud.  Those remedies have to do with how they see some aspect of their life; how they 'frame it'; how they think and talk about it.  By changing the way it is experienced, they can release the hold of depression and move up into much milder sadness and regret, and then on up into calm serenity.

I can help you to retrieve your old vitality, and to remain active and interested in life.  You don't even have to take time out to come and see me at my office; and we never even have to meet.  We can work together over the telephone, and I can send you follow-up reading material, and you can email me with progress reports. 

On the other hand, if you want to meet face to face, I can set up an appointmentto meet in Halifax or Hebden Bridge. 

In a short time you could have your depression under control, if you respond well to my coaching.

To set up an appointment, call me today on:

Telephone: 01422 843 629 (inside the UK)

Telephone: 44 1422 843 629 (outside the UK)

Or email me at: jim.byrne@abc-counselling.com

Or download an information pack: Information pack for Face to Face clients

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Don't miss this chance to sort your problems out.

Call me today.

Jim Byrne
Doctor of Counselling
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services

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