Depression

In my earlier articles, I state that there are many different causes of and pathways to depression. This commentary focuses on the role anger and aggression play in keeping the depressed mental state alive (i.e., allowing it to persist). It puts particular emphasis on a few ways anger and aggression directly impact one’s mood.

The goal of this brief commentary is to provide you with a slightly different understanding of depression, a perspective that you may not necessarily find in your usual internet search. It is important to put my bias up front, I am a trained psychoanalyst, so the perspective I take is solely psychodynamic and is built upon my educational background and years of clinical experience.

It is important to discern what is driving the depression. There are many different pathways that cause depression, which are not mutually exclusive, and a thorough assessment with careful attention to one’s history will help guide an effective treatment approach.

The goal of this brief commentary is to provide you with a better understanding of what drives depression. I wanted

In an earlier commentary I spoke about the important and often times unrecognized role loss plays in depression. I detailed