Depression Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/depression/ Interventions & Treatment Consulting Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:09:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://heatherhayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-HH_logo-32x32.png Depression Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/depression/ 32 32 Why Multidisciplinary Approaches Matter in Complex Mental Health Cases https://heatherhayes.com/why-multidisciplinary-approaches-matter-in-complex-mental-health-cases/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:40:12 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=7299 Every individual’s path to healing is different, particularly when complex mental health challenges are involved. What appears to be anxiety or depression may be layered with trauma, dysfunctional family dynamics, medical conditions, substance use, and ongoing social stressors. While two people can share the same diagnosis, they can have entirely different histories, triggers, coping strategies, […]

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]]> Challenges of Adolescence: Coping with the Pressure to Be Perfect https://heatherhayes.com/challenges-of-adolescence-coping-with-the-pressure-to-be-perfect/ Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:45:16 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=6741 The teen years can be extremely challenging. We tend to romanticise adolescence once we have left it behind, remembering it as a time when we were carefree and had many paths open to us. In reality, the years between thirteen and nineteen are fraught for many young people as friendships emerge and erode, academic pressures […]

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]]> The Many Facets of Depression: Beyond Just Feeling Down https://heatherhayes.com/the-many-facets-of-depression-beyond-just-feeling-down/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:00:40 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/dysfunctional-family-communication-the-role-of-triangulation-copy/ Depression is a serious mental health condition that affects countless people worldwide [1], regardless of age, gender, or cultural background. Many people will struggle with depression repeatedly over the course of their lives. For some, it is debilitating, all-consuming, and visibly affects their behaviors and outward appearance. However, for others, it is less obvious and […]

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]]> The Link Between Psychological Homelessness and Addiction https://heatherhayes.com/the-link-between-psychological-homelessness-and-addiction/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/difficult-months-raising-awareness-around-seasonal-affective-disorder-copy/ Recovering from addiction requires a great deal of inner work. It is a lifelong process and not merely a matter of stopping the problematic behavior that characterizes addiction. It entails healing from the trauma that so often lies at its center. But, how do we begin this process of healing which is so critical to […]

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]]> What Is High-functioning Depression and How Do We Address Male Suicide in the US? https://heatherhayes.com/what-is-high-functioning-depression/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=5582 “I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.” ― Robin Williams. While high-functioning depression is not a medical diagnosis, it accurately captures the state of a growing number of people. […]

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]]> The Disease to Please: Hypervigilance Around Others’ Needs https://heatherhayes.com/the-disease-to-please/ Sun, 13 Mar 2022 05:05:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=4814 People-pleasing, known as sociotropy in the field of psychology, is defined by the APA as, “the tendency to place an inordinate value on relationships over personal independence (…) in response to the loss of relationships or conflict.”[1] People-pleasers, or those with sociotropic tendencies, wish to make other people happy, often at the sake of their […]

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]]> The Codependent Teen https://heatherhayes.com/the-codependent-teen/ Sun, 05 Dec 2021 05:05:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=4707 “A codependent person is one who has let another person’s behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person’s behavior.” ― Melody Beattie Teenagers can often struggle with codependent relationships without their families noticing. Often, it is under the guise of an intense friendship or romantic relationship, which masks the fact that […]

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]]> Understanding Eco-Anxiety https://heatherhayes.com/understanding-eco-anxiety/ Sun, 09 May 2021 04:01:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=4183 “Empowering action is the antidote to these horrific, overwhelming emotions (of climate change)” – Lise van Susteren We are all familiar with the potential impacts of climate change due to the rise in reporting of extreme weather events, droughts, the ice caps melting, flooding, and impacts on agriculture and infrastructure. However, we may not be […]

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]]> Living in the Solution https://heatherhayes.com/living-in-the-solution/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=3987 “A lot of things that mental health professionals try to exterminate and fix have their origins as solutions to very complex problems.” ~ Bessel van der Kolk By the time most people ask for psychiatric help, they will have spent a good deal of time already struggling with whatever mental health condition they require assistance […]

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]]> Understanding Existential Crises https://heatherhayes.com/existential-crisis/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:44:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/exploring-emo-subculture-copy/ Experiencing crisis goes hand in hand with being human. An existential crisis is defined as, “a psychological episode in which a person questions the meaning of their life and of existence itself.”

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]]> Beating the New Year’s Blues https://heatherhayes.com/beating-the-new-years-blues/ Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:11:26 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=2597 Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and the New Year’s blues affect many people each year. An estimated 10 million [1] Americans are affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder, with a further 10 -20% experiencing mild symptoms. Fewer daylight hours disrupt a variety of neurochemicals and can cause fatigue, sadness, irritability, and difficulty concentrating. When you combine SAD […]

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]]> Effectively Managing Cravings Over the Holiday Period https://heatherhayes.com/cravings-and-the-holidays/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:30:17 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=2579 Holidays are meant to be a happy, festive time of merriness and cheer, and they often are for the most part. However, they also bring with them a number of challenges, especially for those suffering with an eating or substance use disorder. Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders act very similarly on the brain. For […]

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