Depression
Do you feel more sad than you think is healthy? Or realize that you have been unhappy since you remember? Contact me about signs of depression and/or depressed mood, including: feelings of low mood, guilt, or indecisiveness, loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities, changes in energy, confidence, and physical functioning (especially concentration, appetite, weight, sleep, decisiveness, restlessness), and loss of purpose or meaning.
Life stress, particularly chronic or unacknowledged, can contribute to depression. Unexamined disappointments and self-defeating patterns maintain this condition of dissatisfaction with life. For self-assessment from the world health organization, click here. Therapy helps you gain perspective on how your depressed mood takes shape, what causes it, and how to break free.
A typical course of therapy to reach basic health can take a few months, while understanding underlying patterns to prevent recurrent struggles may take longer. In either case, therapy can help you sort out what has become an unwelcome state of dark mood, negative thinking, feelings of inadequacy, and struggling to get by.
This may be your first moment realizing or wondering if there is a problem or seeing the depth of what you are struggling with. Contact me for help with your low mood - Insight and emotional tools help you design a more fulfilling, meaningful life.
Feeling Down? Depressed? Call Dr. Douglass at (415) 215-4796.
I am a postdoctoral psych assistant (PSB 34300) to Dr. Gary Stolzoff,
UCSF Clinical Professor (PSY 6841).
“Once you have explored the depths,
don’t wallow in them.
It’s not only boring,
it’s destructive.
Let grace enter.
It brings with it a new understanding of love.”
– Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou