Depression Counselling | Depression Therapy in Singapore

Depression is a major mental health disorder that leaves you feeling persistently sad, hopeless, and disconnected from activities you once enjoyed. It affects not just your mood but also your thoughts and physical health, making everyday tasks feel overwhelming. Seeking help through therapy can make a big difference in managing and overcoming its effects.

10 Common Signs and Symptoms of Depression

Persistent Sadness: Feeling persistently sad, empty, or hopeless, even when there is no apparent reason.
Loss of Interest or Pleasure: Losing interest in activities that were once enjoyable, such as hobbies, socializing, or sex.
Changes in Sleep Patterns: Experiencing significant changes in sleep patterns, such as insomnia (difficulty falling or staying asleep) or hypersomnia (excessive sleeping).
Fatigue or Loss of Energy: Feeling constantly tired, physically drained, or lacking in energy, even after resting.
Changes in Appetite or Weight: Experiencing significant changes in appetite or weight, either eating significantly more or less than usual, resulting in noticeable weight gain or loss.
Difficulty Concentrating or Making Decisions: Having trouble concentrating, remembering details, or making decisions, even on minor issues.
Feelings of Worthlessness or Guilt: Feeling worthless, guilty, or experiencing excessive or inappropriate guilt over past events or actions.
Restlessness or Irritability: Feeling restless, agitated, or irritable, even over small matters, and having difficulty controlling these feelings.
Physical Aches and Pains: Experiencing unexplained physical symptoms such as headaches, stomachaches, or muscle pain, which do not respond to treatment.
Thoughts of Death or Suicide: Having recurrent thoughts of death, dying, or suicide, or making suicide plans or attempts.

10 Negative Effects of Long Term Depression

Worsening Mental Health: Untreated depression tends to worsen over time, leading to more severe symptoms and potentially increasing the risk of developing other mental health disorders such as anxiety or substance abuse disorders.
Impaired Relationships: Depression can strain relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners due to emotional withdrawal, irritability, and difficulty maintaining meaningful connections.
Decreased Work or Academic Performance: Depression can impair concentration, memory, and decision-making abilities, leading to decreased productivity and performance at work or in school.
Physical Health Issues: Untreated depression has been linked to various physical health problems, including chronic pain, digestive issues, cardiovascular problems, and weakened immune function.
Increased Risk of Substance Abuse: Individuals with untreated depression may turn to alcohol, drugs, or other substances as a way to cope with their symptoms, leading to substance abuse and dependency issues.
Suicidal Thoughts or Behavior: Without proper treatment, depression can escalate to the point where individuals experience suicidal thoughts or engage in self-harming behaviors.
Financial Strain: Decreased work productivity, increased healthcare costs, and potential job loss due to untreated depression can lead to financial difficulties and instability.
Social Isolation: Feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness associated with depression may lead individuals to withdraw from social activities and isolate themselves from others, exacerbating feelings of loneliness and alienation.
Impact on Physical Appearance: Neglect of self-care, changes in appetite, and disrupted sleep patterns associated with depression can contribute to weight changes, poor hygiene, and overall deterioration in physical appearance.
Lower Quality of Life: Ultimately, untreated depression can significantly diminish one’s overall quality of life, affecting their emotional well-being, social connections, physical health, and sense of purpose and fulfillment.

How Mindease can Help you with Depression

Living with depression and its symptoms can be overwhelming at times. Combining the power of hypnotherapy, and counselling can help you to find the safest environment to identify your thoughts, feelings and cognitive/ behavioural patterns. Hypnotherapy, when coupled with counselling, proves to be extremely useful to overcome depressive thinking, develop the necessary social skills and create a very much needed supportive environment.

At MindEase, we start with talk therapy (one form of cognitive counselling), which can help us understand and work through real issues that are impacting your life in a negative manner. Our counsellors listen carefully, create a concrete plan and work with you at every step to fill your lives with happiness and passion again. Our services, be it 5-PATH® Hypnotherapy, 7th Path Self-Hypnosis® or Access Bars® can help you to find relief and overcome situations like extremely low mood, dizziness, hopelessness, negative cloudy thoughts, and so on with ease.

We begin our depression counselling therapy in Singapore using talk therapy that allows you to talk about your feelings in a comfortable and safe atmosphere. Our counsellors can help you to deal with negative thoughts and provide you with a tailored plan to achieve your mental wellness goals. At the end of every counselling session, we will take notes to create a more powerful plan for the next counselling session and what to expect to achieve out of it. Usually, with the hypnosis that have been weaved into each counselling session, the subsequent session has a compounding effect that will be 10x more powerful.

Do you feel depressed, anxious, worried or have thoughts of suicide? Our counsellors who are also professional hypnotherapists are available to help you.

Schedule a free depression counselling consultation with us today to get the right help!