What is Depression?
Depression is a "whole-body" illness, involving your body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way you eat and sleep, the way you feel about yourself, and the way you think about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be willed or wished away. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better. Without treatment, symptoms can last for weeks, months, or years. Appropriate treatment, however, can help most people who suffer from depression.
Depression is one of the most common psychological problems, affecting nearly everyone through either personal experience or through depression in a family member. Each year over 17 million American adults experience a period of clinical depression. The cost in human suffering cannot be estimated. Depression can interfere with normal functioning, and frequently causes problems with work, social and family adjustment. It causes pain and suffering not only to those who have a disorder, but also to those who care about them. Serious depression can destroy family life as well as the life of the depressed person.
Treatment for Depression
Sychological treatment of depression (psychotherapy) assists the depressed individual in several ways. First, supportive counseling helps ease the pain of depression, and addresses the feelings of hopelessness that accompany depression. Second, cognitive therapy changes the pessimistic ideas, unrealistic expectations, and overly critical self-evaluations that create depression and sustain it. Cognitive therapy helps the depressed person recognize which life problems are critical, and which are minor. It also helps him/her to develop positive life goals, and a more positive self-assessment. Third, problem solving therapy changes the areas of the person's life that are creating significant stress, and contributing to the depression. This may require behavioral therapy to develop better coping skills, or Interpersonal therapy, to assist in solving relationship problems.
Finding effective treatment for depression can be a challenge. Through research, we now have a better understanding of the behavior. Studies have made it clear that treatment for depression aimed at children and adolescents offers the best chance to curb abuse nationally. Treatment for Depression Michigan, Treatment for Depression Washtenaw County Michigan can help you treat your depression.
The goal of Apex Behavioral Health is to provide hope and improve the quality of life with Treatment for Depression in Michigan and Treatment for Depression in Washtenaw County for those in the greater Washtenaw County area whose lives are affected by some sort of depression.
When you are looking for or in need of treatment for depression in Michigan, treatment for depression in Washtenaw County or treatment for depression in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Saline or Milan, Michigan, look no further than Apex Behavioral Health. We specialize in treatment for depression services in Michigan, Washtenaw County, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Saline and Milan . We work as a team to diagnose and treat individuals suffering from depression and other psychiatric illnesses, including anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and drug and alcohol dependency. Apex Behavioral Health provides care to all ages, treating a unique individual, not just a diagnosis. Individual, couple, family and group therapies are offered as well as psychological testing and driver license evaluations.
So if you are in need of mental health services in Michigan or Washtenaw County, Substance abuse services in Michigan or Washtenaw County, or Treatment for depression in Michigan or Washtenaw County, please call 734-729-3133 or Contact Apex Behavioral Health online and we will address your Mental Health Services in Michigan needs.
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