Presenting concern
Getting here took more than anyone watching understands.
Depression is rarely dramatic from the outside. It is the slow narrowing — fewer plans, shorter replies, a flatness that makes the good things feel like they are happening behind glass. Erin's approach is strength-based, which matters most here: the goal is to find the capacities you still have and stop discounting them.
01Depression
Small before big
Behavioral activation is unglamorous and it works. One thing back on the calendar, then another, sized to the energy you actually have this week rather than the energy you had two years ago.
02Depression
The thoughts that came with it
Depression writes conclusions about you and presents them as facts. CBT is the practice of reading those conclusions carefully enough to notice they are arguments, not evidence.
03Depression
What sits underneath
Sometimes depression is grief that never got room, or trauma that went quiet instead of loud. Erin will follow that thread if it is there rather than treating only the surface.
Signs this is the right page
- Everything takes more effort than it should
- Sleep and appetite have shifted
- You have stopped answering people
- Nothing sounds good, including the things that used to
None of this is a diagnosis, and no outcome is guaranteed. It is a starting point for a conversation.
In Erin's words
What she would say if you called today.
When you are depressed, the honest first step is usually small and unimpressive. We start where your energy actually is, not where you think it should be, and we build from there.
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