Key points

Depression is not one uniform condition but a signal communicating issues and struggles in one's inner world.

Similar depressive symptoms will have different meanings and functions depending on our personality make-up.

Therapy that helps you understand depression in the context of your personality can foster change from within.

Depression is often spoken of as if it were a single condition, a uniform experience of sadness, fatigue, or lack of motivation . However, if we look beyond these experiences, we will understand that not all depressions are alike. Psychodynamic depression therapy begins with this premise: that depression is not just a symptom to be removed, but a communication from the psyche, a signal, like a fever, that something within us is struggling for exp

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