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Low Mood and Depression Counselling
Some weeks are heavy and then they pass. When the heaviness stays, when sleep and appetite change, and when things you once enjoyed feel like a chore, it is worth talking to someone trained.
Trijog’s psychologists and counsellors work with adults carrying a low-mood problem, in person in Mumbai or online. Low mood is not weakness and it is not a character flaw. It is a pattern that keeps itself going, and that pattern is what the work is aimed at.
- Private, one to one
- In person at our Mumbai centres, or online
- Family or partner can join, if you want
A Low Patch Or Depression?
A rough guide, not a test. Only a professional can tell what is going on for you, so if you are unsure, talk to someone.
A low patch
How long
A few days, often linked to something that happened
Daily life
You can still work, eat and see people
What helps
Rest, talking to someone close, time
Depression
How long
Most of the day, nearly every day, for two weeks or more
Daily life
Sleep, appetite, energy and interest all change; tasks feel heavy
What helps
Talking therapy, routine and support, and sometimes medicine
Get help now
- Thoughts of ending your life or harming yourself
- Feeling you cannot keep yourself safe
- Not eating or drinking for days
Any of these needs urgent help, now. Call 112 or Tele-MANAS on 14416, or go to the nearest hospital emergency.
What We Help With
Pick what feels closest to your situation. Not sure which one? That is fine, we can work it out in the first conversation.
Low mood that will not lift
Heaviness or flatness that has stayed for weeks, most of the day, most days.
Udaasi that does not move. Mornings are usually the hardest. Small tasks feel like climbing. Many people keep going to work and running the house through all of it, so nobody around them notices, which makes it harder to say anything. Kamzori and tiredness are often the words used long before the word sad.
- Waking early, or sleeping plenty, and still feeling drained
- Snapping at people over small things, then feeling guilty
- Feeling useless, or a burden on the family
- Getting through the day on autopilot with nothing to look forward to
The work starts with the loop: low mood pulls you away from activity, less activity removes whatever used to give energy, and the mood sinks further. You and your therapist rebuild small, doable steps first, then take on the harsh self-talk once there is something solid to stand on.
Losing interest and motivation
When things you used to enjoy stop pulling you, and starting anything feels impossible.
Mann nahi lagta. Friends message and you leave it on read. The phone eats the whole evening. At home it gets called laziness or too much mobile, which stings, because from the inside it feels like a switch that will not turn on. Waiting to feel motivated does not work here. The action usually has to come first.
- Cancelling plans you were actually looking forward to
- Scrolling for hours and feeling worse afterwards
- Chores piling up although the time is there
- Food, music, cricket or people not landing the way they used to
This is where doing comes before feeling. You track what you actually do against how you feel, then add back a few specific activities chosen for meaning rather than for mood. Small and boring beats big and inspiring. Motivation tends to follow the action instead of leading it.
Sleep, appetite and energy changes
The body side of low mood: sleep, food, energy, aches and concentration.
Neend nahi aati, or sleep comes and you still wake tired. Food loses taste, or eating becomes the comfort. Body ache, gas, heaviness in the chest and poor concentration are common, and they are usually what takes a person to a physician first. Getting checked is sensible. If the reports are normal and the tiredness stays, this is a reasonable next place to look.
- Waking at 3 or 4 in the morning and not getting back to sleep
- Eating much less, or much more, than usual
- Body ache and weakness with normal test reports
- Re-reading the same line at work and forgetting small things
Sleep and daily routine come early, because they hold up everything else: a steady wake-up time, daylight and movement, and a wind-down that suits your household. Your therapist will also ask whether thyroid, anaemia, pain or a medicine could be part of the picture, and will ask you to see a doctor if that needs ruling out.
Low mood that keeps coming back
A pattern of low phases that lift and then return.
You know the shape of it by now. A few good months, then sleep slips, plans start getting cancelled, and it closes in again. People very often stop everything that was helping the moment they feel better, which tends to be exactly when the next slide begins. Learning your own early signs is the practical part of this work.
- More than one low phase over the past few years
- Feeling better and quietly stopping what was helping
- The same first signs each time, such as sleep or pulling away
- Dreading the next phase even on good days
The work goes wider than the current phase. You map your own early-warning signature and write a simple if-this-then-that plan with the people who will notice it. Approaches that train you to step back from repetitive thinking are often used when low phases repeat, and your therapist will talk you through the options.
Low mood alongside a long-term illness or pain
When diabetes, heart trouble, thyroid, cancer care or chronic pain sits on top of low mood.
A long illness is tiring in ways healthy people do not see. Appointments, costs, diet rules, pain that will not let you sleep, and the sense of being a burden at home. The two feed each other: low mood makes treatment harder to keep up with, and the illness makes the mood heavier.
- Skipping medicines or tests because nothing feels worth the effort
- Pain and low mood making each other worse through the day
- Pulling back from family so they do not have to deal with you
- Feeling that the old life is gone and nothing has replaced it
Therapy here works alongside your medical team, never instead of it. The focus is usually pacing, protecting the parts of life that still work, keeping the treatment routine going, and having somewhere honest to talk about what the illness has cost you.
When life feels too heavy to carry (thoughts of self-harm)
Thoughts of not wanting to be here any more, including thoughts of ending your life.
These thoughts are far more common than people think, and having them does not make you weak, mad or a bad person. Many people carry them quietly for months and tell nobody, because they are afraid of how family will react. Telling one person is the step that changes things: a friend, someone at home you trust, a doctor, a therapist. You will not be judged here, and you do not have to be in crisis to deserve help.
- Thinking the family would be better off without you
- Wishing you could sleep and not wake up
- Thoughts of hurting yourself that come and go
- Keeping all of it to yourself so nobody is worried
If anyone is in danger right now, call 112 or go to the nearest hospital emergency, and Tele-MANAS is free at any time on 14416. In sessions, your therapist will ask about these thoughts plainly and calmly, and the two of you make a written plan for the hard hours: your early signs, what helps, who you call, and how to make home a safer place for now. Therapy does not promise to remove such thoughts. It gives you somewhere to put them and people to reach.
Also Here For You
People often come to us for these too:
Grief that has not eased
After a death, a separation or a loss that everyone else seems to have moved on from.
Talk to us
Burnt out and feeling nothing at work
When the job has drained everything and even a holiday does not touch it.
Talk to us
Low mood with drinking
When alcohol or something else has become the way to get through the evening.
Talk to us
Why This Kind Of Support Helps
Low mood arrives in the body
Kamzori, body ache, gas, broken sleep. People often see two or three doctors before anyone asks about mood, and that is not their fault.
You do not have to hit a low point first
You can come while you are still working, still managing the house, still looking fine to everyone else.
Just be strong is not a plan
Willpower talk is common at home and it leaves people more alone. Low mood needs a practical plan and a bit of company, not a lecture.
No Crisis Needed
You can come while things still feel small, or hard to put into words.
How It Works
Reach out
Meet your therapist
Agree a plan
Review as you go
What A First Session Is Like
Your therapist will ask what the last few weeks have looked like: sleep, appetite, energy, what you have stopped doing, and how heavy it gets. They will also ask, directly and calmly, whether you have had thoughts of harming yourself. It is a routine question here, not a trap, and honest answers help. By the end you will usually have one small step to try.
Psychologists And Counsellors
For talking therapy, one to one, in person or online.
A Psychiatrist, If Needed
For a medical opinion when medicine is worth discussing.
Family, If You Want
Joint sessions with the people close to you, only if you choose.
If you are reading this for someone at home
Families usually notice first. What you do next matters more than finding the right words.
- Ask plainly and without panic. "You have not seemed yourself lately. What is going on?" is enough to start.
- If you are worried about self-harm, ask directly. Asking does not put the idea in anyone's head, and it often comes as a relief.
- Help with small things: a meal, a walk, coming along to the first appointment. Do not take over everything.
- Skip the willpower talk. "Be strong" and "think positive" land as blame, even when they are meant as love.
If you need help right now
- If you or someone near you is in danger, or is thinking of ending their life, call 112 or go to the nearest hospital emergency.
- For free mental health support at any time, call the government's Tele-MANAS helpline on 14416 or 1-800 891 4416.
- Trijog is not an emergency service. Our sessions are by appointment, in person in Mumbai or online.
If any of these is happening, please do not wait for an appointment. Call 112 or go to the nearest hospital emergency. Tele-MANAS is free and open any time on 14416 or 1-800 891 4416.
Try A Free Self-Check
A few quick questions about your mood over the past two weeks, free to use. It is not a diagnosis and it cannot replace a conversation. You can share the result with your therapist.
Mood Check
Stress And Worry Check
Frequently Asked Questions
Stress usually lifts when the situation changes. When the heaviness stays for weeks and sleep, appetite, interest and energy shift with it, it is worth a proper look. You do not have to work that out before booking.
Our therapists offer talking therapy and do not prescribe. If medicine is worth discussing, they will help you meet a psychiatrist who can explain the options, and the decision stays with you.
Yes, and please say so early. Your therapist will ask about it calmly, make a safety plan with you, and bring in a doctor if that is needed. If you are in danger right now, call 112, or Tele-MANAS on 14416, first.
What you share stays between you and your therapist. There are a few exceptions, such as when someone’s safety is at serious risk or the law requires it, and your therapist will explain these in the first session.
Yes. Online, or in person at our Mumbai centres, whichever you are more likely to keep.
Yes. Low mood does not always come with a reason you can point to, and many people feel guilty because they cannot explain it. It still counts, and it can still be worked on.
Visit Our Centres
Meet your therapist in person at one of our three Mumbai centres, or join online from home.
Powai
406, 4th Floor, B-Wing, Powai Plaza, opp. Nirvana Park, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai 400076
Phone: 1800 202 7180
Time: Mon to Sat, 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM
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Bandra
Office No. G6, Bandra Nicholas C.H.S Ltd, Sherlyn Rajan Road, Rizvi Complex, Bandra West, Mumbai 400050
Phone: 1800 202 7180
Time: Mon to Sat, 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM
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Prabhadevi
Dr. Palep's Polyclinic, Manoj Co-Operative Hsg Society, Shankar Ghanekar Marg, opp. Rachana Sansad College of Architecture, Prabhadevi, Mumbai 400025
Phone: 1800 202 7180
Time: Mon to Sat, 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM
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Try a Short Practice
Running on empty
For when you're tired in a way sleep doesn't fix.
Landing here
A few minutes to arrive before the rest of your day.
Start With One Conversation
You do not need the right words ready. Tell us what has been going on, and we will take it from there.
If you are thinking of ending your life or harming yourself, or you feel unsafe right now, call 112 or go to the nearest hospital emergency. For free support any time, call the government’s Tele-MANAS helpline on 14416 or 1-800 891 4416. Trijog is not an emergency service. Outside India, call your local emergency number.
Educational content, not therapy or a diagnosis. A Trijog therapist can help with what is yours specifically.