Divorce and Depression

Frequent Questions About Divorce and Depression

What is the relationship between divorce and depression?

Divorce, in many cases is accompanied by despair, guilt, shame, sense of failure, emptiness, frustration, anxiety, headaches and so forth.

In other words, divorce in many cases is accompanied by depression and suffering that is causing an individual to display symptoms of divorce depression.

Even though the relationship between divorce and depression is strong, sometimes divorce can be a depression relief, if a marriage was dysfunctional and depressive.

However, an important thing to notice is that in most cases, divorce, after even a bad marriage is accompanied by depression and sense of failure.

Nobody is proud about getting divorced, especially if they have children. Children are often ashamed to say that their parents are divorced and they fantasize of getting their parents back together. Children suffer a lot and should be protected from divorce turmoil as much as possible. Parents should never argue in front of the children or talk about divorce if their decision to get divorced is not final.

Divorce is a crisis and as in any crisis, people that are getting divorced are facing overwhelming stress, which causes many illnesses including depression.

How to deal with divorce and depression?

Dealing with divorce and depression is a process that needs to be organized and worked on in psychotherapy or divorce counseling. Depression is an illness and as with any other illness, if not properly treated, it can become more severe and cause even more suffering.

Unfortunately, many people try to self-medicate with alcohol or drugs when going through divorce. This is wrong and can have great consequences. It only makes things much more difficult and deepens depression. If you have alcohol problems, you need to participate in alcohol counseling as well as in psychotherapy or divorce counseling.

There are many things you can do to ease your process of coping with divorce and depression. However, you cannot do it on your own. Professional help is strongly recommended for any type of depression. In addition, there is nothing bad in asking for help from your family members or friends, especially when they are prepared to support you and give you what you need in this time of crisis.

Psychotherapy or divorce counseling should be the foundation of your recovery process. Dealing with depression in the right way is being in therapy and having professional help and guidance. However, even though having a therapist or counselor is strongly recommended and very helpful, he or she cannot do all the work for you. In the end, you are the one that needs to make changes in your life and fight depression.

You have to understand that it is in your power to overcome depresion and that it is your responsibility to get better. Of course, you need help, but nobody can help you if you are not prepared to help yourself first.

Do not look at you divorce as the end of your life, but as the beginning of the new chapter of your life. How good and fulfilling that new chapter of your life will be, depends on you and only you. For as long as you believe that it is in your power to change your life and make it better, you have that power.

You can surrender to your divorce and depression pain and allow it to defeat you, but you can also use it to become a stronger and better person by fighting it and overcoming it. You have two paths to choose from, one that leads to the dark depths of depression and another one that leads to better life. Which one will you choose?

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