What Is Depression?
Depression is a serious mental health disorder that includes intense sadness with feelings of helplessness, worthlessness, and hopelessness that can last for days to weeks at a time, and keeps an individual from functioning normally. Without a depression in Tampa FL, and Brandon FL, treatment plan, it can have a lasting, devastating effect.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, an estimated 16 million adults (7%) in the United States suffered from at least one depressive episode in the past year. Although depression in Tampa FL, and Brandon FL, affects people of all ages, races, ethnicity, and socioeconomic backgrounds, women are 70% more likely than men to experience depression, and young adults ages 18-35 are 60% more likely than people over 50 years old.
A combination of factors likely causes depression in Tampa FL, and Brandon FL, including genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors. Depression can be hereditary; however, it an also occur in individuals without family history of depression. Triggers like trauma, loss of a loved one, a difficult relationship, or other stressful situations can also cause a depressive disorder.
There are no lab tests that effectively diagnose depression in Tampa FL, and Brandon FL, so a doctor must speak with the patient regarding their specific symptoms to diagnose it. However, clinical depression can be hard to diagnose as it can manifest in many ways.
What Are the Symptoms of Depression?
Symptoms and side effects of depression in Tampa FL, and Brandon FL, can be different for each person, but for many, a depressive disorder changes their daily functioning, and typically for more than two weeks.
Common symptoms include:
Changes in sleep
Changes in appetite
Lack of concentration
Loss of energy
Lack of interest in activities
Hopelessness or guilty thoughts
Changes in movement (less activity or agitation)
Physical aches and pains
Suicidal thoughts
How Is Depression Treated?
The most common treatments for depression are medication and psychotherapy. At Affordable Counseling Center in Tampa FL, and Brandon FL, we treat individuals with depression with the most advanced evidence-based methods available, always ensuring the client’s needs are the number one priority.
Using individualized depression counseling at Affordable Counseling Center in Tampa FL, and Brandon FL, help clients in relieving the stress that comes from assimilating back into everyday life and help them achieve the highest levels of functioning and independent living once they leave counseling. Affordable Counseling Center in Tampa FL, and Brandon FL, we use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to defuse negative thoughts and treat depression. A type of psychotherapy, CBT changes mood patterns by stopping negative, hypercritical, and other types of thinking that can lead to depression, anxiety, and other conditions.
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