Depression Says You’re Worthless–Depression Therapy Proves You’re NOT

Depression is a serious mental health condition. It is also a very painful emotional experience. Sufferers say that they feel sad for no reason, hopeless and worthless. Often for extended periods of time. These ‘low moods’ affect sleeping patterns, relationships and daily functioning.

• Depression says you’re worthless

If you think of yourself as the complex creature you really are, you will be able to identify different aspects of yourself. Inside yourself.

One of them could be called ‘Depression’ – the internal voice that whispers you’re worthless.

And when you are in the grip of depression, sometimes that’s the only voice you can hear.

• Depression therapy

But fortunately, depression can be successfully treated. With depression therapy.

Depression therapy is not a voice in your own head, it’s a process that you enter with your therapist. As you work through that process, the voice of depression becomes weaker and less convincing. It loses its power to affect reality.

Depression therapy takes you through the dark times to see the light of day. Where you can see your own self-worth.

• Depression Therapy Methods

Depression therapy starts with exploring your past. When did you first get the idea that you were worthless?

Maybe you’ve never looked at it like that before, but the way you grew up and the way you were treated as a child laid the foundations for the self-image you have today.

Was there a voice in your childhood that told you you’re worthless?

A real voice? Someone in your life who was very critical of your young self and who made you feel that you were not good enough?

As adults, many of us can no longer distinguish between the critical voice we heard from someone else a long time ago, and the critical voice inside us now. This is called ‘internalizing’ a critic.

Depression therapy will explore the origins of your low self-worth so that you can take up space inside yourself again. Depression therapy also has a proven track record of success.

• The path from worthlessness to building up healthy self-worth

What is your self-image right now?

Where would you like to be?

What are the elements of healthy self-worth?

How can you move away from the toxic inner critic and towards your real self?

This is the kind of exploration your therapist will undertake with you in depression therapy. But we are not just replacing one voice with another. As the therapy progresses, you will see the evidence – no, you are not worthless.

• Reality check

Your feelings of worthlessness are just that – feelings.

They are not reality. Depression therapy is the biggest, boldest and most well-founded reality check you will ever encounter.

• Human rights – myself and others

Many people who suffer from depression can see worth in others, just not in themselves. They somehow separate themselves from the rest of humanity, and often from their own values and belief systems.

If you think you are worthless, consider this:

Psychotherapy has its roots in the philosophy of the enlightenment. At its core is idea that all people are of equal worth. And that includes you, depressed or not.

Depression can say that you don’t have the same worth as others, but depression therapy can reconnect you to the fundamental truth stated in this famous quote:

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” This is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN in 1948. It means that you don’t have to do anything to acquire worth (or ‘dignity and rights’ as the declaration puts it). Being human is enough. That’s the law. That’s a fundamental value we all share.

This is also a definition of universal unconditional love. Towards others and towards yourself. It’s the unspoken charter of depression therapy. (Depression is often a late-onset result of the lack of unconditional love in your childhood.)

The path from worthlessness to healthy self-worth leads through exploring your past and connecting to the unconditional love that makes you a member of the human race.