Author: Shocki, PhD, LMFT, LCSW

Dr Shocki has over thirty years experience in the behavior health field. He has founded and directs the Life Source Center, Inc., located in Plantsville Connecticut. Services include behavior health counseling dealing with relationship issues, persons struggling with various anxiety and depressive maladies and those individuals struggling to develop improved stategies to cope with the world around them. Dr. Shocki has also written a book entitled "Take Charge of Your Life or Someone Else Will" The book is available electronically free upon request at lifesourcecenter @aol.com.

Dealing with Depression

  DEALING WITH DEPRESSION: Depression and anxiety, the opposite of the same coin. Yet depression often seems to have a strangle hold on the lives of people who experience it. Depression, when it hits, doesn’t affect all people in exactly the same way. For some people the depression is major and all encompassing. These people experience extreme sadness, a sense of hopelessness, a lack of energy coupled with thoughts of death or suicide. However, for far too many people, there is a chronic low grade depression that is experienced with a grayness that  colors one’sRead More