For Online or Face-to-face Individual, Couple, or Family Counselling, Treatment of Diagnosed Depression/Anxiety and
other Conditions,
and/or Prayer/Spiritual Support with
Owen Robinson
MAASW (Adv. Accr) MACSW Clinical Div
BSW (Curtin) MA (Counselling)
BEd (Science) Grad. Dip. Management
Counsellor, Medicare Provide, Supervisor and Training Consultant
Senior Consultant for Converge International
Veterans & Veterans Families Counselling Service Provider
Department of Veterans Affairs Provider
Insurance Commission of WA Provider
Listed as a Blue Knot Foundation Trauma-informed Service
For info Phone: 0408 890 887
(please allow one day for replies to messages)
NB Medicare rebates are available if you see a GP for a mental healthcare plan
AMPM Doctors
cnr High Road and Granville Way, Willetton
Willetton
Western Australia 6155
Medicare Provider 442250BY
Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays 7:45am-4:00pm
For Appointments Phone/SMS 0408 890 887
Stirk Medical Group
113 Edney Road
High Wycombe
Western Australia 6057
Medicare Provider 4422503H
Tuesdays 8:30am-5pm
For Appointments Phone 9454 4431
Stirk Medical Group
32 Newburn Road
High Wycombe
Western Australia 6057
Medicare Provider 4422502X
Thursdays 8:30am-5pm
For Appointments Phone 9454 5233
To mail: PO Box 260
Maddington
WA 6989
To email: morehope@iinet.net.au
This is NOT an emergency service. For Western Australian mental health emergencies please contact the Mental Health Emergency Response Line on 1300 555 788
or
attend the nearest Emergency Department of a hospital.
Alternatively contact Lifeline on
13 11 14.
Other support services:
Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 - for 24/7 telephone counselling for young people 5-25 years
Suicide Callback Service: 1300 659 467 - for 24/7 telephone crisis support for people at-risk of suicide, carers and bereaved
MensLine Australia: 1300 78 99 78 - for 24/7 telephone and online support, information and referral services for men
Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 - for 24/7 telephone support and online chat 4pm - 10pm (AEST)
Meth Helpline : 1800 874 878 - The Meth Helpline is a free confidential telephone counselling, information and referral service for anyone concerned about their own or another person's meth use.
1800RESPECT - 1800 737 732 - 24 hour 7 days a week, confidential telephone and online support - 1800RESPECT is not only a support service for people affected by sexual assault, domestic and family violence. It is also an information and support service for family, friends, and frontline workers.
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Health and the Mind:
Common symtoms of depression identified by the Medical Journal of Australia appear in the following categories:
Biological
Insomnia
Poor appetite
Weight loss or gain
Loss of erergy
Loss of libido
Poor concentration
Psychological
Loss of interest or pleasure
Perceived worthlessness
Perceived hopelessness or helplessness
Preoccupation with death
Guilt or sense of failure
Illness seen as punishement
Social
Social withdrawal
Difficulties in relationships
Reduced leisure acivities
Difficulties at work
Impaired role functioning
Depression can be caused by many factors. This information below deals only with the way physical health can play a part in causing depression. It is always worth ruling out physical disorders before or while in counselling for depression. Ask your GP to investigate your physical health with a "full blood picture" to see what treatable physical problems can be addressed while you are trying to recover from depression.
Physical causes of depression include:
1. Serious medical illness – The stress and worry of coping with a serious physical illness can lead to depression, especially if you’re dealing with long-term management. Scroll down for incidence with specific diseases. (Source: Beyond Blue)
2. Chronic pain especially if poorly managed by medication. (Source: Beyond Blue)
3. Genetics - depression can run in families and some people will be at an increased genetic risk. However, having a parent or close relative with depression doesn’t mean you’ll automatically have the same experience. Life circumstances and other personal factors are still likely to have an important influence. (Source: Beyond Blue) Specific gene defeacts can play a big role in depression e.g. MTHFR gene mutations (Source: Psychology Today; MTHFR.net)
4. Alcohol and other drug use – can both lead to and result from depression. Many people with depression also have alcohol and other drug problems. Over 500,000 Australians will experience depression and a substance use disorder at the same time, at some point in their lives. Alcohol and Cannabis are both depressant drugs. (Source: Beyond Blue)
5. Some medications - To look for whether depression is a know side effect of a medication you take try this site.
6. Vitamin B12-deficiency anaemia (Sources: University of Queensland; Bupa) - You might ask your GP to do a blood test for Vitamin B 12 levels as well as iron levels.
7. Vitamin D deficiency - A Black Dog Institute paper that looked at current research into vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency contributing to depression has recommended that Vitamin D levels should be checked in all depressed patients. (Source: Depressionet.org.au)
8. Thyroid problems - If the thyroid is not functioning well it can cause depression. (Source: healthdirect)
9. Liver problems - People with a liver disease reported 12-month rates of major depression (17.2%) that were significantly higher than among people without liver disease (7.0%). (Source: National Center for Biotechnology Information)
10. Haemochromatosis (inherited iron overload disorder) - iron levels that are too high from this disorder can cause depression. (Source: Haemochromatosis Australia)
11. Epilepsy and other neurological disorders (20%-55% of patients) - (Source: Medical Journal of Australia)
12. Multiple Sclerosis (40%-60% of patients) - (Source: Medical Journal of Australia)
13. Diabetes (9%-26% of patients) - (Source: Medical Journal of Australia)
14. Idiopathic Parkinson disease (2.7%-90% of patients) - (Source: Medical Journal of Australia)
15. Stroke (14-19% of patients) - (Source: Medical Journal of Australia)
16. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (20%-50% of patients) - (Source: Medical Journal of Australia)
17. Cardiovascular disease (7%-27% of patients) - (Source: Medical Journal of Australia)
18. Cancer (0%-38% of patients) - (Source: Medical Journal of Australia)
19. Sleep apnoea - Individuals with severe sleep apnoea have a greater likelihood of having depression regardless of whether excessive daytime sleepiness is also present. However, if excessive daytime sleepiness is present there is a greater likelihood of depression. (Source: Lung Foundation Australia) Certain type of breathing during sleep are particularly associated with depression: snorting, gasping or short interruptions in breathing. (Source: WebMD)
Evidence-based Complementary Therapies
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for comlimentary therapies states that zinc is one of six evidence based complimentry therapies for mild to moderate depression.
The 6 complementary therapies for mild to moderate major depression are:
• Omega-3 fatty acids - Used as adjunct to medication, it may help
with bipolar disorder (depression symptoms) and milder cases of
major depression
• St John’s wort - Similar efficacy to SSRIs for mild to moderate
cases of major depression
• S-adenosyl-methionine (SAMe) - May help with depression when
used as adjunct to medication
• Zinc - May assist depressive symptoms when used as adjunct to
medication
• N-acetyl cysteine - Some symptom reduction efficacy in bipolar
disorder and possibly in depression
• Folate (including L-methylfolate) - May assist depressive symptoms
as adjunct to medication
The guidelines quote a study that indetified that reported that high adherence to a Mediterranean diet, also a very healthful dietary pattern, is associated with a 30% reduced risk for depression.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2015, Vol. 49(12) 1087–1206 (page 1143)