Free Depression Self Help - Part 1: What Causes Depression?
Learn how to overcome depression at home:
Welcome to Part 1:
This series is dedicated to helping you understand what depression is and how to overcome it without the need for therapy.
Content Page:
This guide is split into 4 parts. Each with a video, worksheets and tasks.
What Causes Depression?
Often people think depression is caused by difficult life situations. However, this only tells us apart of the picture. If it was really just down to having bad events happen to us nearly everyone would have depression.
To really understand Depression you need to understand three main things:
1) An increase in stressors.
2) A reduction of rewards.
3) Avoidance patterns.
By understanding these three things you can start to break out of your Depression.
And luckily these are actually really simple concepts that you can understand in just a few minutes.
Watch the video below to understand what these concepts are.
Part 1 - What Causes Depression:
Once you have watched the video you should hopefully have a good understanding of how life events can effect our rewards and stressors and how it is these changes that emotionally effect us, leading to us to engage in avoidance patterns.
Before moving onto the next video, download the worksheet below and draw out your own depression pattern. Try to recognise how your rewards and stressors have changed since having Depression.
Click on the image to download the worksheet:
Up Next: Part 2 - Activity Monitoring:
Now you understand more about your Depression, its time to start to monitor your “Avoidance Patterns”.
Think you need 1:1 support to overcome your Depression?
Although I specialise in treating Emetophobia, I have considerable experience working with depression.
If you feel depressed and low, speak to me today because it doesn’t have to be this way.
Written by David Kaneria
