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Shades of depression in the cave Contents Introduction    1 Cave Entry    2 Loss of meaning    2 Treatment    2 Social Element    3 Treatment    4 What then keeps us in the cave?    5 Learned helplessness    5 Punishment    5 Cognitive\Behavioural maintaining factors    5 Social element    5 Finally Time    6 Treatment    7 Summary    8 References    8 Introduction In evolutionary terms, depressive symptoms can be seen a defensive reaction.  Paul Gilbert sees  depression as a return to the cave when overwhelmed to recuperate before returning back to the fray.  This seems to agree with clients who talk of their depressive symptoms of not wanting to socialise for fear of being judged as boring or uninteresting, or not wanting to do things as they wouldn...

Overcoming Depression One step at a time Part 1 Understanding Depression Introduction Read a chapter a week and do the exercises, this will take 8 weeks. 25% of people will experience depression in their lifetime and depression has trebled since WW2. Maybe this is because of a depressogenic society we rely more on technology less on each other and have become alienated and isolated, button pushers. At work we are human resources, to be played like a game of chess, and we live in nuclear families divorced from our extended families. End jobs, relationships, losing loved ones, moving house, all put you at risk of depression. Chapter 1 How depression works Depression rarely has one cause, its complex, and it isn’t necessary to determine the cause to end depression. With chemical imbalances it isn’t clear if depression causes the chemical imbalance, vice versa or a combination.   The quickest way to remove an influence from the past is change how you live in the present.   Medica...