#Depressed #Family: 2018-05-12
Scenario: An adult family member is noticeably depressed and discouraged with life in general.
• If you are a psychiatrist do you prescribe antidepressants and promote the Pharmaceutical industry’s profitable claim of a chemical imbalance?
• If you are a social worker do you focus on the client’s systems and help them to positively re-engage in their community and support systems?
• If you are a psychodynamic therapist do you focus on the client’s disguised and hidden internal conflicts with their parents or other internal objects?
• If you are a psychologist do you focus on the client’s thinking errors or demandingness in order to help them to cope and problem solve more effectively?
• If you are a counselor do you focus on the client’s ego issues a.k.a. self-esteem issues and help him or her to stop feeding their ego with their self-talk and to find unconditional self-acceptance?