What has Depression done to your life? Are you in pain, overwhelmed, out-of-control?

“I wish I wouldn’t wake up tomorrow.” “There is nothing in my life worth anything anymore.” “I simply can’t enjoy all the things I used to love so much, I can’t enjoy anything.” “I’m exhausted all the time, and can barely get out of bed.” “I can’t sleep, and when I do, it is so fitful I never feel rested.” “Nothing tastes good to me, I could stop eating forever.” “Sometimes I see things or hear things that aren’t there, and I think I might be crazy.” “Why bother?” “Why care?” “Why live?”

If any of these questions sound familiar, you may be one of the tens of millions of people suffering from clinical depression. Usually described as feeling sad and not knowing why, or feeling afraid and not knowing what you are afraid of, clinical depression is so difficult to work with, it feels hopeless. If you are feeling helpless and hopeless about your depression or anxiety, read on. We have some answers for you.

9 SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION:

1. Anhedonia – Unable to feel joy or happiness doing things that used to make you joyous or happy, or would make most people joyous or happy.

2. Sleeping Disturbance – Lying awake longer than fifteen minutes before falling asleep. Awakening more than once per night. Having vivid nightmares or night terrors. Never feeling really rested. Any of these can be a sleep disturbance.

3. Eating Disturbance – Anorexia or bulimia, binging, purging, loss of appetite, skipping meals without planning to, eating the same exact things day after day, all are considered an eating disturbance.

4. Decreased Energy – Not enough energy to get through the day with reasonable plans you have made, waking up exhausted or tired, too difficult to get out of bed, having less energy than most of your peers, all can be evidence of decreased energy.

5. Difficulties Concentrating or Thinking

6. Feelings of Guilt or Worthlessness – Nothing you do is good enough, ashamed of how little you accomplish or what you are doing.

7. Psychomotor Retardation or Agitation – Feeling “out of sync” with the world, as if you are moving too slow, the world is moving too fast, or vice versa.

8. Thoughts of Suicide – Including self-destructive acts like cutting or burning, wishing you would fall asleep and never wake up, passing thoughts of dying.

9. Hallucinations, Delusions or Paranoia. Seeing or hearing things that are not there, believing you are somebody or somewhere you are not, believing that other people are plotting against you, or planning to hurt you.

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Depression Treatment Requires Special Therapy

In the vast number of cases, depression can most effectively be treated by turning the depression back into anger, and letting the anger go. This does not mean anger management. If the goal is to manage, not get rid of, the anger, then managing anger means causing depression to take its place, since remember, depression is anger turned inside. The job of therapy or counseling is to uncover the reasons for the depression (where the anger came from) and eliminate the anger. This is a specialized skill, but one with which SouthCoast Recovery is well equipped to handle.

The basic issue is to have therapists, counselors and staff who do not overreact to anger, and who can teach you how to let the anger out safely. There are a variety of ways to do this. Again, it does not mean managing the anger, but getting rid of it. We believe that people are born with the drive to be the best they can be, and if nothing impeded that growth, (such as verbal, physical or sexual abuse) people would grow up to be the very best they can be. However, ninety percent or more of people have issues that impede their growth. Your subconscious has the answers to what you need to work through to get well, and all that needs to happen is to ask the subconscious what events need to be processed. This does not involve hypnosis, but is simply asking a part of your brain to help you heal. It is not mysterious, and in fact is simple.

The memories may be scary, but whatever happened in your life, you lived through it, and you can live through the memories so we can process and get rid of the anger. It sounds simple, and is not really as complicated as most believe. The risk is allowing yourself to remember the hurt, and being in competent hands to process the feelings. It is not enough to remember abuse, because that merely re-traumatizes the client. Instead, the abuse is remembered, the feelings processed and completed, with resultant drops in depression. Ultimately, there is happiness as the depression leaves.

Happiness is being content with who you are and what you are doing all the time. That is not possible without getting the anger, hurt and fear out. That is the job of SouthCoast Recovery. To do it, you need counselors or therapists who are not afraid or uncomfortable around anger, rage, even sadness. That is the kind of staff we have.

If you look at a scale of mental health, with suicide at the bottom, and happiness at the top, it appears that in order to reach happiness from major depression, suicidal thoughts, and so forth, certain stages have to be gotten through. The first stage is depression, right down there by suicidal thoughts. Depression is feeling awful and not knowing why. Next on the scale is sadness. This is feeling awful but at least you know why. Memories are no longer repressed and sadness comes in realizing why you were depressed. Third moving up to happiness is rage, being angry generalized, but without specifics. Anger is next, when you have anger, but you understand why. When that anger is relieved, happiness is the result.

Obviously, if you are moving up the scale towards happiness, not down towards suicide, the risk of suicide becomes less and less an issue. Once the rage and anger is reached, suicide is not an option, because hope has replaced helplessness.

Unfortunately, there are not many places available, which are financially in sight, to treat and cure depression. Generally depressed people feel awful, become suicidal or nearly so, and are sent to a hospital. Hospitals in general are not set up for treatment, only symptom relief. Therefore you are medicated, until you are unable to think, about suicide or anything else, and then released. This service costs thousands of dollars a day, but does not really treat depression, only applies a band aide.

At SouthCoast Recovery, our goal is to treat and cure the depression, not with a medication regime, but with therapy getting rid of the anger and hurt. This is done in-group and individual sessions, in a protected (not locked) setting, where cure of depression is the goal. The treatment is longer than in a psychiatric hospital (usually one to three months), but you leave without depression, rather than with a ton of anti-depressants that mask the symptoms. SouthCoast Recovery focuses on the problem, depression, rather than medicating you into a tolerable state. The goal is always to find happiness. If not, why bother? At SouthCoast Recovery Depression treatment, we understand the pain and suffering that can make it tough to get help from Depression. Depression often causes many serious physical and psychological problems that can cause people to be dangerous to themselves or others if not properly cared for. Our knowledgeable staff can help those fighting Depression to overcome their unique challenges in a safe, structured environment.

Individual Attention & Depression Therapy

First of all we offer treatment, and in most cases an end, not just a reduction, in depression. We do this by treating the unresolved anger that causes depression. We have medical doctors who can offer medications during the process but our goal is ending the depression rather than finding the best anti-depressant.

Second of all, we offer treatment that is reasonable in cost, as opposed to hospitals where the costs are prohibitive. You will find that the cost per month is far smaller than the cost for a week at a hospital, and we offer a cure, not additional medications.

Third, you will be staying in a beautiful home in South Orange County, with other residents who have similar problems. Contact with other residents is one of the most beneficial of the treatment modalities we offer. Groups, twelve step meetings for depression, individual therapy are all based on healing your depression, with no other agenda.

Fourth, there is a staff of experts on depression who will walk you through the whole process. You will receive a psychologist’s care who has forty-three years of experience working with depression. The staff is hired both for their professional skills and their ability to show love. They are required to treat the clients as they would like to be treated if they came with a depression problem. We are indeed a love-based program!

The treatment procedure is a full day, every day, of solving your depression in the shortest possible time. It is our experience that curing depression does not take a long time, but it is painful to process the memories that may have caused you depression. Therapy is painful, but from the start you will see progress and know that it not only works, but is not way off in the future somewhere.

Getting Depression treatment takes courage, guidance, and structure. SouthCoast Recovery offers intervention, detox, medication and treatment to conquer Depression. Our world-class clinical staff offers daily individual attention to get to the heart of the problem, deal with the wreckage and build the framework for a new life.

We offer affordable, effective Depression help built on cutting-edge Dperession treatments and Depression therapy. Depression therapy requires extended care. We offer 30, 60 and 90-day programs tailored to the individual’s needs. We blend clinical and holistic methods to renew mind, body and spirit while restoring relationships, goals and purpose. This prepares our clients for long-term success in beating Depression, allowing our program to excel where others fail.

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Depression Treatment Services/Options:

Your day will be full. You will attend daily twelve step meetings, daily therapy group session with other clients with similar problems. You will have homework to complete which helps process the move towards happiness. You will have twice weekly individual therapy sessions with trained professionals, including at least one hour with our psychologist. You will have recreation including gym privileges every day. You will have acupuncture and full body massages at least once a week, at no additional fee. You will see movies and other multimedia activities to keep you from being bored. Again, you interrelationships with other housemates is always valuable, regardless of how shy you may be. It is busy, and for depressed people that is somewhat scary at first, but the progress you will feel will offset your lethargy.

The average length of treatment is about forty-five days. Some clients finish within the thirty-day first phase, while others require up to three months. There is no fixed time limit, though an initial thirty-day commitment is required.

• Intervention services

• Physical health evaluation

• Medically-supervised, social model and holistic detox options

• Medication to help with cravings, pain and sleep

• Continued physical care throughout recovery

• Psychological evaluation for dual diagnosis of problems such as depression and anxiety, which may be underlying causes that could leave to substance abuse

• Individual psychological treatment

• Individual counseling

• Family counseling

• Hypnotherapy

• Depression education

• Health and wellness education

• Denial management

• Relapse prevention

• Anger management

• Acupuncture for pain management, stress reduction and decreased cravings

• Detoxification massage therapy

• Meditation for stress reduction, a calmer mind, reduced cravings and clarity

• Fitness sessions at gym (24-Hour Fitness)

• Integration of 12-step principles and Narcotics Anonymous meetings

• Structure, guidance and practice for long-term sobriety

Millions of people suffer from clinical depression that robs them of the ability to feel pleasure from normal life activities. While a small percentage of the population suffers from a chemical imbalance in the brain, the majority suffer from situational depression as a result of events in their lives.

The goal of our program is not just to resolve depression though that is of course, important. The goal is for you to leave SouthCoast Recovery with the chance to find happiness. Happiness means to us that you feel content with who you are and what you are doing all the time. Therefore our goal is to resolve you depression and/or anxiety, and at the same time, provide you with goals and plans in order to find genuine happiness. Depression is especially painful, as you feel awful and don’t know why, so it seems it will last forever. We will help you find out why you are depressed, and deal with those issues, so you end up feeling happy, but aren’t sure why. Believe me, it is a far better feeling!

At SouthCoast Recovery, our goal is to help you work through the anger created by these events and release it while at the same time assisting you with goals and direction toward a life that will bring you genuine, lasting happiness. Depression is almost always anger turned inward. This can be caused by a variety of events, including childhood memories, abuse, trauma, interpersonal relationships and life disappointments. We accomplish this by providing a safe environment where you can address underlying issues in process groups and individual therapy sessions under the guidance of qualified counselors and our clinical psychologist. Psychotherapy is accompanied by advanced holistic healing therapies such as meditation, acupuncture and massage to naturally stimulate the body’s mood enhancers. Our highly trained staff members all work together to help you release old patterns and emotions that are contributing to your depression and set new exciting goals that propel you toward the life you desire. You don’t have to suffer alone in the darkness of depression anymore. We can help.

"Without a dream a person has no purpose
Without a purpose an individual has no goals,
Without a goal to strive toward, a life has no direction.
Having a dream and working toward that dream gives one’s life a goal, a destination, a purpose and best of all – meaning.”

Dennis Larkin, Founder

Our goal is to help relieve you of depression while at the same time provide you with goals and direction toward a life of genuine, lasting happiness!