Nobody else has ever been inside it.
Nobody around you understands the depth or the weight of what runs in there.
Your thinking has gone heavy and slow, as though the gears got packed with something thick.
Any thought of your future arrives with impending doom attached, so imagining one at all starts to feel like a waste of time.
Your motivation is gone far enough that picking a crumb up off the floor feels impossible, futile, laborious.
By now you're certain that you're a burden, and doubt runs its own commentary underneath everything you do.
A supportive gesture or an expression of love comes through twisted into something inauthentic and forced.
You don't just think this way, you feel it.
So you sleep to get away from the feeling, then wake up disappointed to have returned to the same world that was somehow supposed to have changed for the better while you were out.
I remember the day I was introduced to the concept of depression and the part it had been playing in my life.
A few words with my doctor and I felt officially weak, burdensome, and deficient.
Honestly, I doubt I'd have let myself get support back then.
Asking would have confirmed the awful idea of myself I carried every day.
So the starting point is how this is actually showing up in you, not what I happen to reach for most.
You share these symptoms with more people than you'd guess.
How they actually run in you is yours alone.
Staying broadly versed was a deliberate choice: variants of CBT, guided imagery, mindfulness, DBT, and exposure treatment.
CBT gets at the thinking sitting underneath the mood, and DBT hands you something to do with a feeling that won't let up.
Guided imagery walks you through a scene in your head until your body responds to it.
Between sessions you'll test one piece of this in real time, at a scale that survives a week where getting out of bed is the hard part.
I don't prescribe.
You and I review several factors together before I refer you to a prescriber.
Some people need no medication at all alongside therapy.
Some start therapy and sort the medication question out along the way.
And some have symptoms that haven't yielded to any therapeutic approach, where medication in combination is what success takes.
I'll hear you out, and then I'll crack you in the ribs the day you stop making sense.
In the last twenty years I've yet to find a client who wasn't ready or able to successfully treat these symptoms.
Within minutes of a first visit, most people get a small first-hand departure from the heaviness in their own head.
Then the work starts, and it's wonderful: the clouds give way to creativity, curiosity, and discovery.
There's no charge for the initial phone consultation.
Put the request in through the contact form and Morgan will book the call.
Plenty of people who made that call didn't believe any of this would work for them either.
Whatever brought you here has taken enough of your time already.
A free consultation is a great way to put me on the spot. Interview me, and find out whether I qualify to help you with what you need.
If the answer is no, you’ll hear that from me, too.
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