Life Resource Center

Try walking down a country road in the summer time without your shadow.  Denying it won’t help, it is a demanding task master.  Cross the road, it is there, walking backwards wont help; it is a constant.  Where there is light, there is shadow.  As well as the outside shadow we have an inside shadow often experienced by us as alien, a “not us” part.  The more split off from it we are the more uproar it can cause us in the daily living.

In any given year more than 17 million Americans suffer from some type of depressive illness.  Many symptoms are common to different kinds of depression and are present with different levels of intensity.  It is important as mental health professionals we understand the origin and meaning of the person’s depression, and not label many states and experiences under a generic label.