Ten Commandments of Managing Depression w/Nate Christensen APCC

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Nate Christensen, APCC (working under the clinical supervision of Tony Overbay, LMFT) shares his personal journey in living with depression and shares his "Ten Commandments of Managing Depression." Depression is a diagnosable mental illness and treatment is available! Depression is estimated to affect up to 20% of the adult population at some point in their lives and symptoms can come on as early as grade school. If you believe that you, or someone that you know, is struggling with symptoms of depression, please seek help from a mental health professional. There are many treatment options available! Please visit the @virtualcouch (https://soundcloud.com/virtualcouch) on Instagram for a list of Nate's 10 Commandments of Managing Depression. And if you are interested in working directly with Nate, please reach out to him through the contact form at http://tonyoverbay.com (http://tonyoverbay.com ) Please subscribe to The Virtual Couch YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/ (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVirtualCouchPodcast/) and follow The Virtual Couch on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/virtualcouch/ (https://www.instagram.com/virtualcouch/) This episode of The Virtual Couch is sponsored by http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) With the continuing “sheltering” rules that are spreading across the country PLEASE do not think that you can’t continue or begin therapy now. http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) can put you quickly in touch with licensed mental health professionals who can meet through text, email, or videoconference often as soon as 24-48 hours. And if you use the link http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your own mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch)offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight. Tony's FREE parenting course, “Tips For Parenting Positively Even In the Not So Positive Times” is available NOW. Just go to https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/ (https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses-2/)and sign up today. This course will help you understand why it can be so difficult to communicate with and understand your children. You’ll learn how to keep your buttons hidden, how to genuinely give praise that will truly build inner wealth in your child, teen, or even in your adult children, and you’ll learn how to move from being “the punisher” to being someone your children will want to go to when they need help.Tony's new best-selling book "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" is now available on Kindle. https://amzn.to/38mauBoTony Overbay, is the co-author of "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions" now available on Amazon https://amzn.to/33fk0U4 (https://amzn.to/33fk0U4). The book debuted in the number 1 spot in the Sexual Health Recovery category and remains there as the time of this record. The book has received numerous positive reviews from professionals in the mental health and recovery fields.You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program The Path Back by visiting

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0:00.0	Hey, pop quiz. Do you know the difference between a marriage and family therapist, a clinical social worker, a professional clinical counselor, a psychologist, and a psychiatrist?
0:12.3	And I would say that for most people that email me are come into my office or write my name on a check, actually even people in my immediate family, I am pretty sure that that answer is no.
0:22.6	And does it even matter? Kind of. I remember one time in particular where somebody was desperately
0:28.0	trying to get a family member in to see me. I'd worked with someone else in their family.
0:32.5	And so despite a very full schedule, I made time I fit this person in. And they came into the
0:36.8	first session. And as I started to lay out the standard things that a therapist says in their first session
0:41.5	about confidentiality, harmed yourself and others, don't hurt old people. If I bump into you on
0:46.5	the street, et cetera, he hands me this piece of paper, and it has a list of medications on it. And I
0:51.9	looked at him and I thanked him and I started up again with my spiel. And he cuts me off and said, hey, no, I only have a really short amount of time.
1:00.0	And I'm out of this medication. I'm curious what you thought about this other one. Would you
1:04.3	recommend that I switch this one up? Would you bump up the dosage? And I thought to myself,
1:08.4	you know, kind of, hey, easy there, champ. We literally have 47 more minutes.
1:11.3	We'll get to the medications as this initial assessment happens.
1:14.6	And he cuts me off again.
1:16.1	And he asked me if I will be able to write him a prescription for a refill of his current meds,
1:20.2	nonetheless, because he is running out.
1:22.0	And I explained that I was a licensed marriage and family therapist and that I couldn't
1:27.1	write prescriptions.
1:28.1	And he said, okay, honestly, I don't want to waste your time, but that's all I'm looking for.
1:33.3	And he really did. He literally got up and he left. So in that scenario, it definitely helps to know
1:38.7	the difference. So simply put, the first three examples I gave, a marriage and family therapist,
1:43.5	that would be me,
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