Depression is not a life sentence and can be treated. Even though it is often misunderstood as a lifetime condition, depression is in fact a body’s healthy response, which is triggered to show that life is not going according to our expectations and that we need to take action.

Depression symptoms can include:

The loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed, including socializing with other people. To become passive and aimless, to have feelings of fear and distress and to live a life of emptiness.

The detachment from everyday simple things, which become unbearable and irrelevant also leads to changes in thinking (concentration, reasoning and memory become affected. What we think about ourselves makes us perceive the future as negative.

Being depressed is like throwing away all the assets that you have in you house, and when you are clearing the house you look around you realise: “I have nothing, I will be miserable, I have no future, there is no hope for me.”

Depression is a common illness that if addressed properly, in most of the cases, the patients will respond well to treatment. It is necessary a treatment that combines the use of medication with psychotherapy assistance, seeking a personal empowerment and helping the patient to deal with his daily problems and frustrations in a healthier way.

How we work with the problem of depression?

When starting the treatment with people suffering with depressive symptoms, the family engagement is essential in this shift plan. (Family program). The assessment of the strong and weak points makes our program based on the positive aspects and on the potential of each person.

To begin the changing process and to look at obstacles in a different way.

The primary purpose of change and of our Treatment is to give life a meaning and make it interesting.

The physical condition and to attend the gym are also important, highlighting the need to increase activity to fight “stress hormones”, providing a revitalised energy feeling from increased cardiovascular and muscle capacity with the supervision of a personal trainer and a weekly training plan.

This helps to create a more positive perception of oneself, thus allowing the person to better understand the relationship between continuous effort and changing possibility.

During the treatment at Heritage Counseling Clinic, the patients will be engaged in several therapeutic and complementary activities, individually or in group. All of this will restore and strengthen healthy patterns of relationship with themselves (self-esteem) and with others. Healthy habits and daily routines will become part of the patient’s daily life.

Depression is treatable. We make rehabilitation easier and with utmost confidentiality. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our technical team and we will be pleased to help. Contact us to make an appointment. We invite you to meet our facilities, therapeutical program and team.