Welcome to another episode of The Good Mood Clinic Podcast!
In this episode, Gemma shares her experience and impressions of working with clients who have had the unfortunate experience of being 'diagnosed' with "treatment-resistant depression". Gemma believes this is a dangerous and disempowering label which does nothing to help people get to the bottom of what's driving their depression.
Gemma has been doing therapy with people in a clinical practice setting since 2001. In 2005, she finished an eleven-year association with a tertiary referral clinic for mood disorders, where she worked in various positions in a clinical research capacity. During those eleven years, Gemma came in contact with hundreds of people referred for depression. Many of those patients had some type of mood disorder, like major depressive or bipolar disorder, and they were often referred to as treatment-resistant.
In this episode, she shares her thoughts centering around people coming to therapy when they have been spending years struggling with a mood disorder like chronic depression or recurrent bouts of a major depressive episodes. She talks mainly about the psychological nature/risk factors and the psycho-social aspects of depression.
Recommended books: Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey Young and Complex PTSD by Pete Walker
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