I tend to steer away from the word Depression to capture a person’s whole presentation. To me, it’s a loaded label and carries ideas of a person being defeated, their personality compressed and unable to rise from a crushing weight. In reality, clients I’ve worked with who have this formal diagnosis are anything but defeated and they rise everyday in the battle to live their life and in some cases, stay alive. For some, it may be getting up against all their instincts and goi