How to Tell if You Are Depressed and What You Can do About it

Welcome to Yoga Unplugged Conversations

A podcast dedicated to helping you grow, thrive and gracefully make tough life decisions, so you can lead a happier, healthier life.

Yoga Unplugged Team member Sarah Burchard is your host. She invites special guests on the show to deep dive into real life issues, providing tools and philosophies to help you navigate them with greater ease.

Sarah is a freelance writer, natural foods chef and certified health coach who is passionate about promoting local businesses and food through her writing, farmers market tours and farm-to-table events under the name, The Healthy Locavore. When she is not talking food she's marketing events for Yoga Unplugged and supporting the yoga community on Oʻahu.

Over the last few weeks the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our lives. Now, more than ever, is the time to take your health seriously and that includes your mental health.

In todayʻs episode Sarah is talking to Dr. Suzi Kiss.

Dr. Suzi Kiss is a Clinical Psychologist who has been practicing for over 20 years. Her areas of specialization include depression, anxiety, relationships and, as she often says, “high-functioning neurotics” like herself.

Today Suzi and Sarah discuss the criteria that must be met in order to be qualified as clinically depressed.

They talk about…

• How she became a psychologist. 
• Why she chose depression as her field of specialization.
• How to determine if you are depressed.
• The difference between depression and a depressive episode.
• How genetics plays a role.
• PMS symptoms showing as depression.
• Suggested treatment. 
• What causes the side effects of antidepressant drugs. 
• The one treatment that may work more effectively than drugs. 

When Suzi and I recorded this episode we had no idea it would air during one of the most devastating times of most of our lives.

If you think you may be suffering from depression or know someone who might be please listen, share and reach out for help.

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Contact Dr. Suzi Kiss at:

• [email protected]
• (808) 944-6900 ext. 1

24 hr Hawaii Suicide & Crisis Line (808) 832-3100

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