TREATING DEPRESSION WITHOUT MEDICATION WITH A PSYCHOLOGIST AT PARIS 9 GARE DU NORD

Contrary to a belief that pharmaceutical companies have been spreading for decades, depression can be treated without medication, by a psychologist trained in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Indeed, medication may have a chemical effect on the symptoms of depression, but under no circumstances does it truly cure it.

The illusion of medication to treat depression

To give an image of this type of illusory treatment – which does not only concern the treatment of depression – we can think of the sailor who scoops water from his boat without bothering about the breach through which it seeps. Not only does this focus on the chemical effects of the symptom prevent us from seeing what is causing them, but in certain ways it also prevents us from regulating them.

Also, treating depression with medication , without treating what causes it, merely veils the effects of depression for a time, while making you dependent on a treatment with potentially serious side-effects. And for good reason, depression is not a chemical disorder resulting from a virus, a genetic dysfunction or even divine punishment, as was once believed: it is the expression of an unconscious inner conflict, sometimes originating in early childhood.

So, if the depression itself is most often triggered by sentimental disappointment, professional difficulties or the loss of a loved one, psychotherapy will reveal that these painful events reactivate conflicts from the past that had not really been resolved.

The work of the psychologist to really cure depression

By working on these causes that were sometimes forgotten, sometimes disconnected and isolated from other thoughts, locked in a corner of the mind, psychotherapy makes it possible to treat depression without medication and the other difficulties with which it is often associated: difficulty in decision making, difficulty in letting go, tendency to procrastinate, inhibitions in relation to others, tendency to ruminate, etc.

By treating these different causes using the method of free associations, psychotherapy makes it possible to treat depression without medication. In Paris or elsewhere, by telephone or in the consultation office, psychotherapy is aimed at anyone in suffering who wishes to truly get out of it.

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The usefulness of antidepressants and anxiolytics

To avoid any confusion, it is important to point out that antidepressants or anxiolytics are not without their benefits: these medications can prove necessary in some clinical situations just as they can also constitute a sort of psychological crutch. But without being accompanied by psychotherapy, for example with a psychologist trained in psychoanalysis, these medications only shift the problem and ultimately constitute a great waste for those who really want to treat their depression. Moreover, it is interesting to note clinically that people who take antidepressants before starting their psychotherapy will little by little, in agreement with their prescribing doctor, reduce their chemical treatment and stop it after a while. In other words, like a chemical crutch that they end up abandoning as they take control of their lives, the drugs then reveal their function of support but also of hindrance.

So, if you are not far from Paris 9 Gare du Nord and you would like to meet a psychologist to treat your depression without medication or if you do not live in the Paris region and want to do psychotherapy by telephone , do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Psychologist to treat depression

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