Depression
- Psychotic or borderline depressed cases must seek treatment with the medical profession. Studies have shown that the best treatment for Depression is short solution focused therapy. The ICHP recommends that a depressed client receive at least 4 sessions of such before analysis is used to uncover the route cause. Depression is on the increase and it is accepted therefore that it is a society and cultural transmitted observable event. In other words it is the result of the interface between altering sociological conditions and personal psychopathology. Common signs of depression/melancholia are

1. Feelings of sadness, hopelessness.
2. Insomnia, early wakening, difficulty getting up.
3. Thoughts of suicide and death.
4. Restlessness, irritability.
5. Low self-esteem or guilt.
6. Eating disturbance -usually by loss of appetite or over eating.
7. Fatigue, weakness, decreased energy.
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate.
9. Loss of interest and pleasure in activities once enjoyed, such as sex.
10. Chronic pain that fail to respond to typical treatment.
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