Depression is more than just feeling down—it drains the energy, motivation, and spark that usually help you engage with life. You may know the things that could help, yet feel unable to do them. It can feel like the world is moving on without you, while just getting out of bed feels impossible. You’re not lazy, just tired in your soul.
From a Depth Psychology perspective, depression is not just a problem to be rid of, it's an important signal from the psyche that something essential is missing or being ignored. Rather than being a sign of weakness, depression can be a turning point. An invitation to slow down and listen to something that is asking for your attention from within.
Symptoms like sadness, fatigue, or emptiness are understood as expressions from the unconscious. They often arise when our outer life no longer aligns with our inner life. When the self we present to the world has drifted too far from our authentic nature. And we don't know how to get it back.
Depression can be seen as a descent into the depths of the psyche, where forgotten feelings, unlived potentials, and buried desires wait to be reclaimed.
Jung called this journey towards wholeness, "the way of individuation." Working with depression involves exploring dreams, images, memories, and symbols that emerge when engaging your inner world.
Rather than trying to push through the feelings, or push them away, we learn to engage them, to understand what they have to teach. Through this process depression can become a passage to renewed meaning, vitality, and a more integrated sense of who you are.
Grief may feel similar to depression, but the experience is very different.
Grief is a profound emotional journey following a meaningful loss. It often comes in waves—sometimes crashing over you, sometimes pulling back, but always shaped by the depth of what was lost. Most people find that grief eventually softens, though it may never fully disappear. Therapy can support this process, especially when the feelings feel too big to carry alone.
Depth therapy can help you explore what’s beneath the surface of your depression—what’s drained your energy, joy, and passion. Together, we can work toward helping you reconnect with your sense of self and rediscover what makes life feel meaningful again.
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