The recovery process for chronic depression is a long one. It takes about 6 months to see improvements and 12 months to learn how to manage life with chronic depression. With a good mental health care provider, it can take about 3 months to build enough trust to start talking about core issues. It often…

Not all individuals with chronic depression were victims of abuse. Some individuals with chronic depression just woke up depressed one day and have no idea why the world has become so bleak. Some people do not have triggers for their depressive episode. Knowing that, for a great number of people, depression does not need a…

Fighting fatalism is important because choices become more evident. With choice comes change. The ability to create change is a powerful thing and necessary for recovery. The ability to create change defies fatalistic views that there is no free will or that things will never improve. Change starts with a thought and ends with actions….