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Experience the concepts and tools presented in the audio CD: “Road Blocks To Recovery". It will give you an overview of how to approach your depression differently.
Experience the concepts and tools presented in the audio CD: “Understand The Wounded Child Within”. It will give you a deeper appreciation of how to recognize and begin healing wounded parts of yourself.
Experience developing your own inner coach with the book: “Who’s REALLY Driving Your Bus?” It will take you through the step by step process of how to build your own personal inner coach.
Experience developing the tools and skills needed to build healthy esteem and learn to parent the wounded parts of yourself with the book: “Changing Attitudes In Recovery – A Handbook On Esteem” It will show you how to begin building healthy self-esteem. It will also show you how to begin a loving, parenting relationship with the wounded kids inside.
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Common Types Of Depression
There are three primary types of depressive disorder:
- Major depression manifests a combination of symptoms that interfere with your ability to work, eat, sleep, study, and enjoy once pleasurable activities. Disabling episodes of depression may occur only once but more commonly they occur several times in a lifetime.
- Dysthymia is a less severe type of depression that involves chronic symptoms that do not disabling but keep a person from functioning at their best or from feeling good. It becomes a part of their daily life. Many persons with dysthymia also experience major depressive episodes.
- Bipolar disorders are a third type of depressive disorder. They are less common than other types of depression. It is characterized by cycling mood changes: severe highs, or “mania”, and fluctuating periods of depression. At times, the mood switches are dramatic and frequent (rapid circlers), but the cycles usually occur more gradually.
When in the depressed cycle, a person can have any or all of the symptoms of a depressive disorder. When in the manic cycle, a person may be overactive, with a pressured quality to their speech, and a flight of ideas. They often have a great deal of energy, needing little or no sleep for extended periods of time. Mania often affects thinking, judgment, impulse control and social behavior resulting in embarrassment and repercussions. These manic perceptions can become psychotic in their nature. Emotional liability is common in the manic phase.
Bipolar Disorders need to be treated by a medical doctor for possible medications, as well as building your own inner coach.
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