Being there for your kids - Depression can be debilitating. Treatment is available . MPT works!

Episode Date: September 28, 2024

Mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT) elegantly weaves the treatment strategies of mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral interventions into a fabric of healing. Your therapist is your guide on a healing journey. MPT lifts you up from the downward spiraling of depression and promotes ways to maintain upward spiraling.

Hi, I'm Dr. John Robinson, and this is Teachable Moments. Let's talk about recovery from depression today. Woe is me. Intelligent Psychotherapy can help you conquer your depression. Remember the classic children's book, Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. He tells the story and adventures of a bear, Winnie the Pooh. He lives in the imagination of Christopher Robin and is surrounded by animal friends, including a blue donkey named Eeyore.

E. Or epitomizes sadness and depression, and his catchphrase is, Woe is me. If I were E.O.'s therapist, I would use mental and psychotherapy, that is, M.P.T, to help him put a spring back in his step. Don't we all feel, woe is me, ain't it awful from time to time? When these depressive feelings won't go away with changing circumstances, weaving the treatment strategies of mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral interventions will help lift your patient's mood and put him on a healing journey. Depression is the cornerstone of stuckness. To get unstuck, first embrace mindfulness. That is, make a point of being in your present. What is your right now? Check your five sensory input to experience being present

with your surroundings. With practice, you will collapse your history of bad things that happened to you and set aside your negative thinking about stressful things anticipated. For the moment, your now is where you want to be. With mindfulness as a foundation for healing, use elements of positive psychology to formulate strategies for chipping away at your depression. To begin with, activity is always an antidote for depression. Now, being depressed means you don't feel like being active. So, use the as-if principle to avoid being stuck in the morass of depression. That is, when you don't feel like being active, act as if you do feel like it, and just do it. You will find your mood lifting with the mere effort of being active.

Also, find Seligman's Values in Action inventory of strengths, that is VIA-IS, online, at www.V.V.I.character.org to discover your signature strengths of character and incorporate them into your daily life. Now, being mindful and incorporating your signature strengths of your character into your daily life,

make use of cognitive behavioral interventions. patients who embrace the healing journey often make daily to-do lists to help them clear out the debris of their lives and stay on task. Ending each day journaling your core feelings for the day helps to close the book and embrace the positive. Developing a gratitude list and posting it on your refrigerator also helps remind you of what's important to you. Mentaligent psychotherapy is much more than talk therapy. Your MPT therapist is your guide on your healing journey. is a doing therapy, less of why me and more of what now. With these interwoven strategies, MPT can help you conquer your depression. For more detail reference and a better understanding

of mental and psychotherapy, check out my newest book, The Healing Journey, Overcoming Adversity on the Path of the Good Life, available on amazonbooks.com and at www.orgon.orghum. Blessings, Dr. John. If my comments, stir questions of your own, contact you. me through my website at www. Thereformykidst.com or email me at John Robinson 0.0.0.com. I'm Dr. Jonathan C. Robinson, licensed to clinical psychologist and author of Teachable Moments, Building Blocks of Christian Parenting, and my new book, The Healing Journey, Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Blessings. Teachable Moments, Building Blocks of Christian Parenting, is available online at Amazonbooks.com

and in local and national bookstores. More on Dr. Robinson at TMCP-I-N-C.com.