Depression is the natural response when life goes badly. If you lose your job, your money or someone close to you dies or goes away, its acceptable to feel depressed.  It happens to everyone from time to time.  Depression can lead to isolation.  Many see the world negatively and their prospects of the future hopeless, which often reflects how they feel on the inside, about themselves.

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These depressive symptoms may not reflect their real self, but distort how one feels, causing a cycle of depressive moods, as we give up on life, not wanting to face the day and feeling worse as result. Giving up on yourself can make life feel bleak and empty, as feeling depressed becomes self-perpetuating.

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Counselling allows you to talk freely about your emotions, what is going on in your life, being completely honest and without fear of judgment. Often just having a neutral person to talk to can help you feel that you have started to move in the right direction to overcome depression

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A psychotherapist or counsellor can help to build some more resilient survival skills and help you to see things in perspective.  

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We cannot change the past but we can change the way we view it so that it appears less of a catastrophe.