In the vast majority of cases, depression directly related to relocation does not last forever. Once there comes a time when a person needs to decide what he will do and how to live.
This crisis is the realization of the point of no return, the decision that the whole past life is already in the past. There is a conscious desire to be independent in a new country and people begin to start implementing the plan on how to best do this.
This is not to say that this is some kind of especially balanced and conscious decision. Just a person can not live indefinitely in a constantly "suspended" state. All long-term states of the psyche change personality and form something new out of it. For example, prolonged depression can lead to the fact that even after recovering from it, it is difficult for a person to start a new active life.
Even if he worked all his life before depression, the disease gave a new experience. The brain realized that if you do nothing, you will not die. So why do we need extra gestures? So a person has to kick himself on his own in order to rock himself again to the level of his former life.
However, not everyone comes out of depression with this conclusion. Most change themselves, adapting to the new society and begin to live in it.
Life in the new and old society in society and culture can fit in different ways in the immigrant's present:
1. The culture and orders of the new country are fully accepted, the native culture is denied.
2. Native culture is the main, the orders of the new country are completely denied
3. Native and new culture are equally present in life.
4. Both cultures, both native and new, are denied. A person does not want to live either in a new way or in the old way, but gets stuck somewhere in the middle in existential loneliness.
The best outcome of this entire history of immigrant adaptation is the third, the worst and maladaptive is the fourth (marginalization). It is a risk factor for the development of mental illness, especially chronic depressive conditions. Significantly reduced the ability to somehow settle down normally in society.
As for the second and first options, there can be any way. There is a risk that when you miss a big piece in life, from your homeland or from a new place of residence, then stress is more difficult. Life in different cultures at the same time suggests that in difficult situations a person should rely on both lifestyles, seek support in the new and old world and its understanding.
The fact is that if you came to a new culture at a fairly decent age, then you already have the skills to cope with stress the way you did at home. You won’t throw it anywhere. But the new society requires completely different methods and approaches that do not always work for immigrants on a personal level. If someone believed that a psychotherapist was evil and the best way to calm down was to tell a friend or girlfriend, then focusing on one thing, he would deprive himself of the opportunity to better survive difficult times. After all, you can combine a therapist and a conversation with friends.
If we take marginalization, then a person forbids himself and friends, and psychotherapists, and in general everything that can help. Accordingly, life hits him much harder.
So, who is in the process of adapting to a new country, this information can be kept in mind. It is important not to limit yourself to any one culture. And to get used to the new, and not to throw out the old from life.