(clinical case, I tell with the kind permission of the client) A 22-year-old girl came in with complaints of depression for a year, with suicidal thoughts. Also severe anxiety, emotional lability. Describes panic attacks occurring approximately once a week. According to her, she contacted a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with recurrent depression, but the prescribed treatment has side effects and is not effective enough. I came for a consultation, on the advice of relatives who recommended a good doctor (the client’s arrival on recommendation makes psychotherapy easier, since the degree of trust is higher). Recurrent depression is endogenous depression, the cause of the disease is a hereditary breakdown of neurotransmitters in the brain, a lack of serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine . Treatment requires medication; psychotherapy is only auxiliary. I do psychotherapy. However, we need to figure it out. The depression began a year ago, immediately after breaking up with a young man whom we had been dating since we were 16 years old. “The world collapsed,” “I thought that we would be together all our lives, like my parents.” There is no circadian or seasonal rhythm (a sign of endogenous depression). Depression gradually increases, feeling despair. Inflicting pain on oneself feels temporary relief. There is no motor or cognitive inhibition; on the contrary, he is distracted from sad emotions by external employment (all this is also not in favor of endogenous depression). Thus, we conclude that in this case the depressive syndrome is most likely psychogenic (born from the psyche), that is, it is a neurosis. This means there should be a good and quick effect from psychotherapy. Let's try resource trance. At the second meeting, the client said that she felt a sharp relief in her condition. The second session began as emotionally figurative therapy, but spontaneously switched to regression and rescripting. I remembered the state of the child (12 years old), when the family moved to another region, to live with the grandmother, and the mother stayed for a year in the old place to settle business matters. It was with my mother that I had an emotionally close relationship, with my dad and grandmother it was colder. At the new school it was not possible to immediately join the team, bullying and mobbing. Then, at the age of 12, a similar depressive reaction with suicidal thoughts occurred. Partially immersed in that state, we protected the girl in our imagination and provided her with a reliable, safe emotional connection with our adult selves. It was this state of a vulnerable 12-year-old child that “switched on” when breaking up with a young man at 21 years old. It was this state that we “discharged” in our imagination. The third session was greatly delayed due to the client suffering from Covid. The condition was generally good. She was joyful and made plans. Due to the events in Ukraine, anxiety increased, and I even had a panic attack again. The third session also did not go according to plan. Immediately after relaxing the body (the initial stage of trance induction), the client begins to sob. She says that she is very scared. That she is small and helpless. And there is a stranger (a doctor) nearby who can offend her. He understands the irrationality of this fear, but cannot do anything. Please do not leave your trance to work with this fear. We put fear on a chair, it’s some kind of slurry that is scary (inner child). The client says that she feels strong aggression and irritation looking at this slurry (apparently the inner critic, the “parental” part). We lay it out next to it - it’s a stone. Immediately between these images a wall appears (a “protector”, a part of the personality that protects the child as best it can). I want to return the stone to my dad (later it turns out that my dad repeatedly showed physical aggression towards my mother, the client saw this at the age of 2-3, it was very scary). We return, it becomes easier. We say good words to the liquid, she glows and feels safe. We thank the defender, we say that now the adult part will protect the child, the wall is crumbling. This is such a theater with tears. The feeling after the session is very joyful. In a week.