At the end of the day, that person has to find their inner resources/realization to get out of that state of mind.
P.S. I am not knocking people who do see a psychologist. Just wanted to get a perspective on the fact that a person must ultimately find the answers by him/herself.
2006-06-05 11:36:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
PSF11- I am not trying to belittle people who are afflicted with depression. Just wanted to get a consensus what people thought about my question.
2006-06-05 11:51:19 · update #1
the psychologist can show them how they are thinking wrong and help them find strategies to cope. this is called cognitive therapy and it helps the person to help himself and SEE HOW he may be causing much of his own problem with negative thinking or wrong thinking. He helps them to do what you say... find thier own inner resources to get out of that state of mind. it is hard when you are stuck in it. you need help.
2006-06-05 11:41:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question shows that you don't have any real understand of what a psychologist actually does.
We don't tell people the answers to their problems, we merely assist them in being able to find the solutions for themselves and these solutions are often different for different people.
Sometimes people feel very confused when they are depressed. Psychologists can really help people to clarify how they feel and to think about how they can help themselves.
It's like... It's like someone has a broken leg and a psychologist is a cast.
A cast doesn't itself fix the leg, it just puts the leg in a position so that the broken bone can knit back together so that the person can walk again.
2006-06-07 09:25:01 · answer #2 · answered by Snippet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand what you're saying. Depression can be because of something like getting fired from your job in which that can usually be cured without medication. However, when the depression comes from a chemical imbalance medication is usually required. However, after being on the medicine for awhile that person can find alterior resoultions for mentally beating the depression. Even though this is possible, many psychologists put their patients on psychoactive drugs to be in more productive state for therapy. Eventually for some mental illnesses...the doctor can wein the patient off of the drug.
2006-06-05 20:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by jennybilbo_10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhm-- clinical depression is often a nero-chemical dysfunction of the brain. It is extremely serious and very rarely just a matter of "pulling ones self up by the bootstraps"-- as opposed to cases of bouts of depression in normal people. I hope your question is a genuine misunderstanding and not an attempt to belittle this terrible burden of many people.
2006-06-05 18:47:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Severe deppression can only be cured with Psychotropic medicine, Mild to moderate deppression can be helped with therapy to help get ride of Learned Helplessness and a to gain a new perspective on your self-worth. Also I think things like aromatherapy can help for mild to moderate deppression as well.
2006-06-05 19:30:52 · answer #5 · answered by Jason 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because from personal experience sometimes talking to someone out side your box can lead you to see thing in a different or more positive light.
2006-06-05 18:48:21 · answer #6 · answered by starodo1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Behavior modification. A psycologist can help to illuminate misconceptions and myths.
2006-06-05 18:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by daca_moracca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why, because if your to much depressed you can die or other things can happen.
2006-06-05 18:47:00 · answer #8 · answered by gabbrielle_pooh2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋