by rulamo | Jul 11, 2022 | Depression
When we think of depression we often assume it to be a malaise that anyone would want to get rid of. However, depression has a number of “secret” benefits that can make it hard for many people to live without it. Famous Danish philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard captured...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Depression, Psychodynamic Therapy
In my many years of experience as a psychologist and a psychotherapist, I have seen exceptionally few clients for whom depression was simply a disorder of the brain. In the vast majority of cases, once a person begins to examine their feelings and their life more...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Anxiety, Depression
Questions You Should Ask Yourself about Psychiatric Drugs: Psychiatry is in fashion these days. Increasingly people are choosing to “pop a pill” to rid themselves of their depression or their anxiety. Statistics show that every 10th adult in the United...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Depression, Psychological Issues, Shame
You won’t find “disorders of shame” as a category in the DSM-5 (the official American catalogue over mental health diagnoses), and yet shame is probably the biggest single cause of most of our psychological problems. Shame is often the secret engine that get us...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Depression
We live in a society that tells us a story of what depression really is; that wants us to believe that depression is an illness and that it is the result of a broken brain. In a series of articles, which I have called “the causes of depression” I want to tell a...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Depression
When we generally think of depression, we think of it as the same phenomenon. People sometimes call it clinical depression, and professionals often call it major depressive disorder. However, depression is not really ONE thing, and there are as many variations of...
