How can I heal from depression and trauma?

[Anonymous]

what is the way to recovery

[Flatmanlewis]

This depends a lot on the type of trauma. The path to healing after being present when a friend was murdered (the trauma I had to move past) may be very different than an act of infidelity, surviving child or sexual abuse, or so on.


Maybe moving away offers some peace but personally I think a combination of things come into play. Time to process events. Positive influences in your life. Developing goals to focused energy on. Examining your faith and beliefs. Therapy is the biggest one (to me) as you are diving right into the topic and can share a level of honesty with someone who has made it their life’s work to understand trauma and guide people through it.

[Meropatrick]

It depends on the trauma. But i want you first to break free from the concept of depression. You dont have depression. You are just depressed bcs of Something. Putting the label depression or clinical depression will tie you to a condition or a syndrome and makes u bound to it. Instead of looking at it as Something you can overcome. Also start with what the trauma have made u lose and try to find a way to balance what u lost or reclaim it

[Asker]

I think living elsewhere is the solution, but I can't go anywhere else right now.

[Meropatrick]

I really dont know any details about ur trauma so I can't tell u if leaving is the right solution. But sometimes running from the problem or ur past isn't good because it catches up with u. The past will catch u up the more u run from it. I am not pro meds or therapy as its a tiny part of the healing process

[Asker]

Can u help me

[chicken_nugget24]

Therapy and medication. A year into both, I'm still struggling. Gonna be a long and hard road anon but I wish you the best ❤️

[MementoMori777]

medication and time anon

[In_Trance]

therapy

[Asker]

So is there no other way to heal without going to therapy?

[In_Trance]

Probably not. Everyone is different, so it really depends on the causes of the depression and trauma.
Whats wrong with a solution that will work if you commit to it?

[BarryLiverstone]

Pay for therapy