There are many reasons we can be frustrated in our ambitions. Fear of failure, lack of self worth or perhaps lack of confidence after many years bringing up children. We may feel very stuck and trapped in the work we do or life we have with no purpose or connection to the world around us. Creativity can be stifled and eroded through lack of self-esteem continuing the cycle of feeling unfulfilled.
How counselling can help
Counselling can help you explore this frustrating “stuckness”. The process may begin by sorting out who you really are and unlock your creativity and confidence to develop your own special purpose in life.
Depression can take many forms. It can come in the form of short lived feelings of sadness that most of us suffer in response to disappointments. It can also come in the form of severe depressive disorders which require treatment. Many, many people in Ireland suffer from depression.
How can you Recognise Depression?
If five or more of the following symptoms are present for more than two weeks, it is probably a depressive episode:
- Feeling depressed, sad, anxious or bored.
- Feeling tired, fatigued, everything is an effort, slowed movements.
- Waking during the night or too early in the mornings, oversleeping or trouble getting to sleep.
- Slow thinking, poor concentration, forgetful or indecision.
- Loss of interest in food, work, sex and life seems dull.
- Reduced sense of self-worth, low self esteem or guilt.
- Headaches, chest or other pains without a physical basis.
- Not wanting to live, suicidal thoughts or thinking of death.
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