Understanding Depression Summary
BELOW are the main topics we have covered in Understanding Depression, Section 2 of the Depression Learning Path. If you are not sure about any of them, you can check back now before progressing to Section 3, Treating Depression .
- The amazing new link between dreaming and depression and how this shows us the way forward
- Depression causes, and is caused by, particular thinking styles
- How we 'add meaning' to things and why this is important for depression
- How the Explanatory Style we use can most of bad events whilst discounting good ones
- The importance of tolerating uncertainty
- Why a realistic sense of control is key
- How and to spot All or Nothing, or Black and White Thinking and why it is dangerous
- The physical symptoms of depression and what causes them
- The cycle of depression. How depression works (diagram)
Next article: Treating Depression: What Treatment Actually Works?
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