Are you or a loved one suffering from depression? If the answer is yes, then it is time to reach out for the support and healing you deserve. The crushing weight of depression can take a toll on every aspect of one’s life, creating severe distress and significantly impairing one’s functioning in the areas of work, school, relationships and health. Sadly, the shame and guilt that often accompanies the dark experience of depression can lead someone to remain isolated, lost, and alone, feeling unworthy or unable to reach out and ask for help. While many of us will experience normal episodes of sadness and depressed moods throughout our life, the disabling nature of acute or chronic depression requires intervention and a . If it feels like you are under water, fighting to break the surface just to get a breath, and that the pain inside is too much to bear, you are not alone and it is not your fault. And you should not have to find your way to back to life alone. There is hope.

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Whether you are suffering from situational or clinical depression, we offer the multidimensional and individualized treatment you need to break free from the pain of depression. Nestled in the hills of Malibu, with a panoramic view of the Pacific ocean, we are set apart from other treatment facilities with our unique and intimate environment that makes us one of the only treatment facilities where guests get specialized individual attention on a daily basis from a warm, compassionate and highly trained staff. We believe successful recovery is enhanced by creating a safe, nurturing and comfortable environment.

We offer innovative and cutting-edge clinical and therapeutic approaches within a holistic framework, to address every aspect of care for the individual who walks through our doors. We understand that recovery and healing are a lifelong process, and we have built an extensive and first class treatment program to create the foundation that is necessary for beginning this life-changing journey. Our highly qualified team of psychologists and therapists, along with your own personal physician and psychiatrist, provide individualized treatment for those experiencing depression and for those experiencing symptoms and disorders across the medical, dual diagnosis and psychiatric spectrum, some of which include: mood disorders, co-occurring alcohol and substance abuse and dependence, eating disorders, ADHD, trauma, grief and loss, and anxiety disorders. Our medical, psychiatric, and therapeutic experts work collaboratively to create a definitive and thorough clinical assessment whereby clinical diagnoses and specific treatment interventions are derived. You will participate in 3-5 sessions per week with an assigned clinical psychologist, licensed social worker or marriage family therapist, where you will work together to define your specific treatment goals and work together to achieve them. Some examples of therapeutic interventions for depression treatment include the following:

• Challenging and redefining negative views of self, others and the world
• Challenging and redefining maladaptive core beliefs
• Building core emotional tolerance and regulation skills with the use of dialectical behavior therapy interventions
• Processing and grieving past trauma and losses, aiding the client along their path to healing and recovery
• Assisting client in building healthy coping resources and strategies internally and externally
• Examining relationships, family dynamics and the individual’s role in these relationships
• Providing support, structure, empathy and insight to allow client to create a path to greater awareness and change
• Empowering client cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally to build a healthier and more stable core sense of self, self-efficacy and power in their lives
• Addressing occupational, social, relational and legal issues in efforts to assist client in resolving life stressors that may be contributing to depression

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Furthermore, you will receive your own personal medical and psychiatric assessments to address any medication needs that may be required in order to effectively stabilize the disabling symptoms of depression. Or if you in search of correcting or achieving more effective psychiatric medication management, we will assist you in responsibly and safely assessing your needs. The treatment team will treat you with the respect you deserve by involving you in every step of the process, empowering you with the knowledge of what treatment intervention is occurring and why, giving you the voice that has been missing in your life.

The treatment process begins with an extensive clinical assessment, development of a specific treatment plan, individual psychotherapy sessions that consist of integrated therapeutic approaches and interventions, and the option of family sessions, and concludes with a detailed exit plan for a successful return to your life. In conjunction with the intensive individual therapy component, we offer a combination of psychodynamic process groups, behavior modification groups, grief and loss groups, and life skills training.

We also offer a blend of adjunct therapy such as acupuncture, yoga, massage, spa treatments and equine and art therapy to provide individuals with a sense of mindfulness and spiritual enhancement that we recognize as indispensable counterparts to the mental and physical components of one’s path to healing. Nutritional counseling and physical fitness regimes are offered by a certified instructor. You will also enjoy gourmet meals and luxury appointments in this estate home. Furthermore, we incorporate hikes, beach walks, day trips to the Self Realization Center, and activities that bring laughter and a sense of belonging back into your life.

Unfortunately, depression isn’t as easy as they make it look on television. Usually, on television, people with depression look dark and brooding. They’re usually really sexy and they’re just depressed enough to make them look like they think a lot. Yeah…not real life. is a lot more serious than that. It not only takes a toll on a person’s psychological health, but it can actually affect them physically. It hurts. It literally hurts to suffer from depression. The pain also of depression also comes from what it does to your life. Depression can ruin a person’s job, their personal relationships with friends, and it can truly destroy the bond that you have with your family. A lot of times, people with depression can’t find their own way out of the hole that they may have sunken into. That’s why if you or a loved one are suffering from depression the best thing to do is to seek depression treatment. It is there that you’ll find the help you need to get back to life. If you’re having a problem with depression do the right thing for you and the people you love immediately and get help.

A crushing weight. A bottomless void. A vast and inescapable darkness. There are a great number of metaphors that patients use to describe the physical and emotional pain of depression, but all of them speak to one fundamental truth: It hurts. Like nothing else in the world. Indeed, the aching intensity of depression probably accounts for the breadth of figurative language attached to it; the disease hurts so much that it can only be explained in the most abstract of terms, with depressives grasping at the ungraspable as they try to put their feelings into words.

Unfortunately, this ineffability means that depression is often only dimly understood by most of the population – by both the individuals who suffer from it and the friends and family members who care about them. People talk about depression without really knowing what they mean; they speak in generalities and stereotypes, repeating assumptions and analogies gleaned from the body of conjectural wisdom that constitutes depression knowledge in the popular consciousness. And that, of course, just isn’t good enough – not for anyone hoping to make a meaningful and lasting recovery from the disease, anyway. On the contrary, depression treatment

– effective depression treatment – has to begin with a thorough and honest assessment of what depression actually is. Treatment, you might say, can only start with the truth.

And so, some numbers. According to most estimates, at least 18 million Americans, almost 10 percent of the population, suffer from some form of depression. That figure is consistent with statistics from around the globe; generally speaking, some 15 percent of citizens in the world’s most developed countries can be classified as depressives. 80 percent of all depression cases go untreated. Depression-related absenteeism, work time missed due to the symptoms of the disease, costs employers $51 billion a year in lost productivity. Perhaps most troubling of all, 15 percent of all depressed individuals will ultimately commit suicide.

But what of it, then? Numbers, in the end, are just numbers; they don’t – can’t – tell the whole story, not when depression is by its very nature an intimately personal condition. To thoroughly understand the disease, and to build a solid foundation for its treatment, it’s essential to engage depression on its own level – to explore its roots, consequences, and remedies, in terms that are relevant for the individuals who suffer from it. The questions, for us, are roughly these: Where does depression come from? What does it do to the people it afflicts? Most importantly of all, what are the steps we can take to combat it?

Given the the disease’s intensely personal nature, it is perhaps unsurprising that the precise causes of depression vary from case to case; there is no one harbinger of depressive episodes, no single trigger of depressive states. That said, we can identify a handful of broad factors that often predispose individuals to depression. Short-term depression is frequently caused by proximate emotional trauma, the sudden death of a loved one, for example, or the unexpected loss of a job. Long-term depression, on the other hand, typically stems from childhood traumas, abuse, neglect, chronic familial instability.

On a biological level, depression is frequently associated with chemical imbalances in the brain, which are themselves often related to structural irregularities (sometimes as result of physical trauma) in the hippocampus and frontal lobe. Though sometimes genetic in origin, these imbalances are generally activated only by a concrete incidence of trauma or stress; genes can contribute to depression, that is, but they aren’t, by themselves, a sufficient impetus to its onset. Depressive states are caused by something tangible, something external, in the life of the patient.

The impact of depression, unfortunately, is no less tangible than its causes. Depression is a two-headed disease: It affects patients physically and psychologically. This latter dynamic, the psychological, is generally better known and more thoroughly documented; most people understand that depressives suffer from crippling emotional pain, and are subject to the stress of deeply pessimistic thought and profoundly negative self-image. The physical symptoms of depression, however, can be just as debilitating as the psychological ones: Depressives, by virtue of their diminished immune systems, are prone to increased rates of chronic illnesses, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Not only is depression a sickness in and of itself, it also triggers other sicknesses, in a sort of vicious cycle that often leaves patients bereft of all but the dimmest glimmer of hope.

The good news, though, is that such hope, dim as it might be, is not entirely unfounded. Depression treatment has evolved tremendously in recent years, with some new methodologies showing success rates above 90 percent. Traditionally, doctors have sought to heal depressives through a combination of medication and psychotherapy; drugs like Prozac and Zoloft address the chemical underpinnings of depression, while individual counseling sessions aim to resolve the the disease’s emotional roots. Recently, though, a third component has been added to that treatment regime: whole-person healing. This novel approach recognizes the totality of depression, and treats the disease accordingly; depressives suffer with their entire beings, and whole-person therapy is designed to confront the condition in all its forms. By promoting positive interpersonal relationships, fostering encouraging spiritual beliefs, and developing fulfilling behavior patters, whole-person therapy gives patients reason to believe in a better tomorrow In the darkness of depression, there may be more hopeful light.