Depression and anxiety

Depression and anxiety are two familiar faces of suffering. They may appear at different levels of intensity, coming and going. Or, on the contrary, they may permeate every day with the feeling, perhaps slight but nonetheless constant, that something does not add up when we take stock of our happiness and satisfaction with our lives. Anxiety can make us feel that we are never enough, and that we need to keep running towards what we believe to be our goals.

The psychoanalytic approach does not teach us how to control anxiety or refute depressive thoughts. Instead, we ask where this distress is trying to lead us, what it is trying to tell us that concerns us so deeply: only by listening to this message will the symptom disappear. I gladly welcome anxious and depressive patterns into my armchair, to unwind the thread of their discourse.