{"id":121996,"date":"2025-05-22T07:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/121996\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:59:11","slug":"how-to-recognize-and-address-symptoms-of-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/121996\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Recognize And Address Symptoms Of Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May is Mental Health Awareness month.\u00a0 Recover Coordinator Dr. Kristen Jurek from the St. Cloud V.A. joined me on WJON.\u00a0 She talked about depression as a mental illness.\u00a0 Dr. Jurek indicates depression is something that they are seeing across many mental health conditions.\u00a0 She says when someone experiences depression they feel sadness and it persists for 2 weeks or more.\u00a0 Dr. Jurek says when it interferes with daily functioning that is when they want to take a look at this condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/attachment-wjonam-alexacard-big.jpg\" alt=\"AM 1240 WJON logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ben White on Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Ben White on UnsplashWhat is Depression?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jurek explains that with depression there is a feeling of sadness and hopelessness, little pleasure in activities, changes in weight and appetite, sleep difficulties, less energy, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, concentration issues, and thoughts of suicide.\u00a0 If veterans are experiencing these symptoms they should come into the client or call 320-252-1670 and request to speak with mental health.<\/p>\n<p>photo courtesy of St. Cloud V.A.<\/p>\n<p>photo courtesy of St. Cloud V.A.Depression Treatments!<\/p>\n<p>Treatment of depression options at the St. Cloud V.A. include medications, increased support, and evidence based therapies specific for depression.\u00a0 An example of evidence based therapy is acceptance and commitment therapy which focuses on accepting thoughts and emotions while increasing someone&#8217;s engagement and life activity.\u00a0 Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behavior.\u00a0 Dr. Jurek says they teach people how to identify negative thinking and allow them adjust those thoughts.\u00a0 Another is personal psychotherapy when depression occurs in interpersonal conflict and how it affects relationships.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to listen to my conversation with Janelle Kendall,\u00a0click to play below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Come Visit Big Lake in Pictures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May is Mental Health Awareness month.\u00a0 Recover Coordinator Dr. Kristen Jurek from the St. Cloud V.A. joined me&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[20227,54316,54317,105,218,45863,54318,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-121996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-articles","9":"tag-from-our-shows","10":"tag-from-the-wjon-newsroom","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-newsletter","14":"tag-show-notes","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114550431157314380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}