Someone comes to therapy for a depression that has dogged them for years, and somewhere in the third or fourth session mentions, almost in passing, that…
Someone comes in asking for help with depression and describes it in present-tense terms. They cannot feel joy, the negativity never lets up, their relationships keep…
Getting dressed can take an hour, and not because of indecision. A person changes outfits repeatedly, checks the mirror, turns away, comes back, and arrives somewhere…
The thoughts do not feel like depression. They feel like accuracy. “I’m not smart enough for that.” “Success isn’t for people like me.” “Why bother, I’ll…
A sixteen-year-old who used to fill the house with friends now spends weekends behind a closed door, grades sliding, answering questions in single syllables. A college…
When someone dies after a long illness, the people around the survivor often assume the grief should be gentler, because there was time to prepare and…
A photograph from ten years ago stops a person mid-scroll. Not because they looked happier, but because they looked like the person they still feel like…
A daughter managing her mother’s medications, a husband caring for a wife whose memory is going, a parent tending a child with a serious illness, these…