Depression Prevention! 💙

Depression is such a horrible, horrible thing to go through that prevention is really important. Not only prevention before a first episode of depression, but once you've had that initial episode of depression, preventing any relapse has to be absolutely paramount. 💙

And that's what therapy work and self -help work can do for you. It can help prevent relapse. But people who take antidepressants are often not taught the skills that would enable them to prevent a relapse. 💙

And that really concerns me around depression. It's like, take these pills and you'll feel better. And then the problem is, how do you prevent that person, if they ever come off those pills, from relapsing if you haven't given them the skills to prevent a future episode of depression? 💙