Depression

Recently research has clearly underlined how, in most cases, depression is the effect of something else: of an underlying invalidating disorder, of a devastating event, of a rigid attitude with regard to reality, of something that has led the person to the depressive breakdown.

From a strategic point of view, depression is regarded as the tendency to give up or renounce to life, due to a sense of helplessness triggered by a delusion (broken credence), regarding a rigid belief on oneself, others or the world.

Generally speaking we can affirm that depression arises after a series of failing attempts to overcome a certain difficulty or problem; thus a sort of failure where one endlessly tries but fails. Hence, moving from an initial position of hope to one of being disappointed, with the final result of entering the depressive state.

This process involves breaking a belief; a rupture so strong which leaves the person feeling victim of something that can't be overcome or even faced. This is the reason for which he ends up renouncing.

Brief strategic therapy moves towards obtaining the maximum therapeutic results through the minimal and least intrusive interventions; the objective is to reactivate the person’s personal resources that up to that point were blocked by the depressive pathology.

Our immediate intervention aims at identifying and consequentially blocking the failing attempted solutions which the patient carries out to overcome his state of depression, and at the same time pinpoint and reinforce functional strategies that can help rescue him or her from their own labyrinth.