So I suggested maybe she could schedule crazy golf in a regular itinerary and maybe some other joyful pursuits as well. Both ladies left thanking me for the helpful insights. Orthodox medicine holds that people are depressed because of a chemical imbalance. Glasser says that that is like saying a man was running because he was sweating. In each case the chemical imbalance and the sweat are the physiological component of the total behaviours chosen to depress and to run.
All cases are, of course, different.
It is often necessary to build involvement, trust and empathy first rather than just thrusting a formula at a new client. Their hurt or whatever drove them to depress may very well need to be expressed and accepted as genuinely painful. Glasser s principle of tiny bites also applies. Much attention has been focussed on how to overcome depression. I think it is often forgotten that it is not always wrong to depress.