High Functioning Depression is just Depression:Best Treatment Modality is Dialectic Behavioral Therapy and Therapeutic Medical Cannabis
As someone who practices Jungian and Freudian psychology with a focus on the wounded child being the part of our psyche that is having Mood Disorders/symptoms, such as, panic attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, rages/emotional outbursts, persistent negative thoughts, and persistent harmful intrusive thoughts; the actual viewpoint is that, the wounded child and the patient are in dissociative fugue, that is, they are split, there are now 2 people trying to control/take over the life of the cognitvely healing evolved adult psyche. The broken, wounded child, crying out for help is normally the winner in that situation/scenario, since the patient’s coping mechanisms, have temporarily abysmally failed.
From a Jungian perspective, this is the collective unconscious primitive archetype of the patient’s wounded child cognitive psyche in arrested development, basically trapped in an Oedipal Complex, psychological Willie Wonka black hole factory, going around and around, on a primitive instinctive 3 Stygian witches “double, double, toil and trouble/mayhem cauldron”, of a psychological carousel, unsuccesfully trying to flee the circus grounds of his extremely wounded mine/mind field of explosively painful triggers/memories of woeful events, that the unconscious psyche has buried, or forgotten to prevent a major depressive episode/nervous breakdown.
The unconscious primitive mind does such an amazaing job, that the patient stays in a limbo stasis trying to become a barely there functional member of society. Which ultimately, leads to a never ending circuitous cognitive spiral of hopelessness and despair, that can result in attempts to stop the nightmarish and overwhelming/excruciating hyperbolic psychological pain, and may result in suicide, or a mass shooting event in an attempt to cease, and desist the psychologically painful perpetual torture.
Consequently, the pathway to mental healthcare equity is Telemedicine, to eliminate borders and boundaries in medicine/healthcare. We are asking the patient to be Jack, in Jack and the Beanstalk. The barriers to entry for affordable/accessible academically driven psychotherapy, are actually insurmountable in the current medical/healthcare economy.
In my role as the solution, and not a factor in the problems in healthcare equity, I can only say, access and affordable psychotherapy and therapeutic psychiatric medicinal, begins with Dialectic Behavioral Therapy/Reiki/Hypnotherapy/Thought Field Therapy on a free modality, such as You Tube, in tandem with fast acting Therapeutic Medical Cannabis gummies.