Empower Radio : Empowering You for a Better Life!: I Just Want to Feel Better: Beating Depression with Cindy Stulberg

I Just Want to Feel Better: Beating Depression with Cindy Stulberg
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Brent Carey on 24/01/2019 09:30:00
 
For years, the first line of defense for depression has been pharmaceuticals,
but in their new book Feeling Better: Beat Depression and Improve Your
Relationships with Interpersonal Psychotherapy, psychologists and authors Cindy
Goodman Stulberg and Ronald J. Frey, PhD, say that it is actually our
relationships that offer the most effective path to healing.
Knowing that depression is an illness as legitimate as any physical ailment,
Feeling Better helps readers get clarity around the four main areas in life that
can be contributing factors to why people feel sad, blue, down, and depressed:
life transitions, complicated grief, interpersonal conflict, or social
isolation.
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On this episode:
1:00 - Difference between sadness and depression
3:00 - An emphasis on relationships
4:45 - Relatinship with yourself
6:00 - Why do people resist therapy
10:15 - Who can help us
11:00 - When is medication neccessary
13:30 - Chronic depression
15:00 - Using humor during conflicts
16:15 - First steps to take
20:00 - Broken leg analogy
Cindy Goodman Stulberg, DCS, CPsych, is a psychologist, teacher, wife, mother,
mother-in-law, and grandmother. With Dr. Ronald Frey, Cindy cofounded the
Institute for Interpersonal Psychotherapy, which trains, supervises, and
certifies mental health clinicians in interpersonal psychotherapy. She lives in
Ontario.