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Psychodynamic Counseling.

Depression counseling, far from treating the condition satisfactorily, can actually make the depression worse. This type of treatment sprang from the mind of Freud, and is based on the idea that much of our behaviour is unconsciously motivated and comes from repressed childhood memories. This is now considered to be a dubious assumption.

The efficacy of Psychodynamic Counseling has a very poor performance record. This method puts forward the belief that people need ‘insight’ before they can change. In other words, you need to know why you’re depressed before anything can be done about it.

Sounds quite reasonable, except that this style of thinking can make a patient’s depression even worse. No depressive needs to be told to think in this fashion. They can do it perfectly well of their own volition! There are many problems with this type of counseling, but the main five are as follows;

Question by star: what do i do about my depression?
I’m 18 and have been depressed for as long as i can remember. but i was only just diagnoised this year for major depression. sometimes i feel better but it’s like the calm before the storm. i moved out a couple months ago into an apt with my friends, i don’t have any money for meds or therapy (not that it was helping because i could never get a freaking appointment) and my school takes forever with their counseling.
i can usually handle myself okay but recently i’ve felt like my 13 year old self again because i’m now back to…
-cutting
-experimenting with(stupid) drugs (all the time)
-other self mutilations
-eating disorders
i just hate this feeling and i have no control, i’m freaking out and i almost feel like i should be hospitilized but idk how to go about doing that or what else there is to do. i start college as a freahman in a week. i’ve tried different outlets, i write/read/draw/dance etc. all the time. i’m not suicidal (yet) i’m just freaking out and want to cry/scream/scratch/bite/choke all the time, do anything to escape reality… what do i do?
I did a trial with the depression patch and it REALLY did not help and i also tried something called like trazadine or something? because i also have insomnia it helped a little bit but made me drowsy the whole day
i would like to get better without meds but i know that is difficult what i need a guess would be free therapy but that doesn’t really exist.