Depression will become the top most disorder within the next few years worldwide. As observed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) depressive disorders will forthcomingly overrule even cardiovascular diseases. Therefore great effort is undertaken to reveal circumstances of occuring depressive symptoms, understand their preliminaries, conducting research on new antidepressants and on psychotherapeutic efficacy.
Eight different forms of depression are distinguishable, each with several grades of severity:
Psychotherapeutic approaches as well as antidepressant medical treatment have greatly improved throughout the past years. Depression definitely is curable, although it may take some time. But the patient's individual efforts are often - if not always - necessary to regain stability.
Both psychotherapy and psychopharmacological medical treatment are recommended, sometimes combined, sometimes as singular approach, to downturn depressive symptoms and conquer suicidal states of mind.
Within psychotherapeutic techniques systemic-psychotherapeutic approach is different. It focuses not on childhood experiences, but tries to find patterns of emotional reaction and submerged preoccupations influencing the person's life style and his or her relationships.
I am trained in systemic psychotherapeutic techniques and integrate psychoanalytic and gestalt-therapeutic techniques I am acquainted with.
Systemic therapy always keeps in mind the "system" - if you will - of a person, meaning his or her relationship to other people. If someone has a problem, his or her family is concerned as well as job-related issues. Vice versa these responsibilities and relationships act back on the person's affections and emotions.
I always try to connect psychotherapy with medical treatment. To ease deep depressive states or prevent greater damage, medication sometimes is imperative.
