Online Depression Counselling - Don't Let Depression Impact You
One of the common misconceptions about depression is that it’s feeling sad, down, or agitated. Although many people with depression do feel sadness, depression is much more serious than that.
People often wrongly believe that being depressed is a choice, or that they need to just think positive in order to deal with depression. Friends and loved ones get frustrated when they cannot understand why someone can’t overcome their depression. Dealing with depression is not easy and therefore we are here to help you overcome it.
How To Begin
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Total Number of Stages
15
Sessions of Betterment
Personal
Sessions
Help Approach
Plan
| Stage | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Name | All about depression | Gain awareness of thoughts and behaviors | Goal-setting strategies |
| Sessions | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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Plan
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
| Name | All about depression |
| Sessions | 5 |
Details
- Understanding depression is different from just being upset or sad.
- How to identify if you have depression.
- Take Self-assessment for depression.
- Common myths of depression.
- How does depression affect your key functioning areas of life?
- Understand Common reasons behind the development of depression
- Understand the term frozen anger and how it is related to depression.
- Association between stress, anxiety, and depression.
- Learn the long-term effects of depression.
- Understanding your type of depression.
- Identify health conditions causing you depression.
- Consciously try to gain awareness about their unhelpful patterns of thinking
- Understand how to activate behaviors that will activate a positive emotional state.
- Practice healthy mechanisms to cope with stressful situations and prevent relapse.
- Learn personal self-care activities
- Learn to challenge and rephrase your thoughts.
- Learn techniques to express and channelize negative emotions in a productive manner.
- Prevent relapse and manage healing and progress.
- Using therapies for depression.
- Using relaxation therapy.
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Outcome
The online depression counselling sessions will help you consciously trying to gain awareness about your unhelpful patterns of thinking.
You will understand how to activate a positive emotional state.
In online depression counselling, you will learn personal self-care activities.
Understand how to challenge and rephrase your thoughts and practice mindfulness to overcome depression. Start with a free online counselling for depression session.
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Disclaimer: According to an individual’s case severity, the sessions might vary.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sticking to your schedule, exercising regularly, reducing stress and maintaining regular online depression counselling follow ups can help avoid relapses of depression.
Understanding the type of your depression after it is diagnosed by a professional and taking appropriate treatment and medicines (if prescribed) will help. Self-help in overcoming depression, involves exercising regularly, eating healthy, journaling and sticking to a fixed schedule that reduces stress.
Yes. If you suffer from depression your ideal mode of treatment should be counselling in person, online depression counselling and medications, if any, can be taken after you consult with a doctor.
Yes, online depression counselling services exist all over the world and most of the therapies that are offered to treat depression can be taken and done online.
Online depression counselling, much like in-person depression counselling, can be effective when the therapist and the patient have a level of understanding, are comfortable with each other and are committed to finding the root cause of depression and correct diagnosis. If you do not have the time to step out for a session, or are fearful of the stigma, then online depression counselling from your home is a good option.
Yes, WhatsApp can be used for online depression counselling, provided it suits the requirements of both parties involved. Since the pandemic many WhatsApp helplines have sprung up catering to this. Some therapists, through WhatsApp, offer free online counselling for depression.
Treatment of depression depends on the severity of it. Psychotherapies that work best against depression are Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Psychodynamic therapy and Interpersonal Therapy. The medications involved in treatment of depression include antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
Online depression counselling has no fixed rate; it varies from city to city and therapist to therapist. Some therapists may offer pro bono services or a sliding scale for payment, others may require a commitment for a fixed number of sessions, upon which they can offer you a good pricing package. At Ananda we offer one free online counselling for depression session to help you start off, and for you to see whether online depression counselling is suitable for you.