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)

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