Anxiety and depression are like brother and sister.
They often go hand in hand with one another.
Sometimes a person can experience them together and sometime they alternate in a cycle of anxiety and depression.
Anxiety
Anxiety is experienced with excessive worry and fear. One can feel light headed and off balanced.
Your thoughts can race, heart pounds, palms can feel sweaty.
People with anxiety often feel a sense of impending doom or a feeling that something is wrong, but cannot figure out what or where the danger is.
The fight or flight mechanism in our brain is stuck on hyper alert and everything seems potentially dangerous or catastrophic.
Depression
Depression is experienced with feeling numb and sad. The spark of life is not there anymore.
Interests and activities that were important to you, no longer seem to be important. A depressed person feels tired and fatigued and they feel sad and blue. For a person who is depressed, time can be experienced as if it were going very slow.
The person often does not want to be around other people and often will withdraw and isolate. Many will feel irritable and agitated with very little patience.
More severe depression can foster thoughts of not wanting to be alive and some will have suicidal thoughts.
Too many people cope with anxiety and depression by “powering through,” withdrawing, isolating, blaming, avoiding, and using alcohol and drugs to self-medicate.
How Anxiety and Depression Counseling Can Help
We help many people who suffer from anxiety and depression.
We can help you learn how your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, life circumstances and relationships play a part in your depression and anxiety.
We can help you find underlying causes for depression and anxiety so that you can learn new ways to face life with more courage, energy, enjoyment and success.
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Dale offers counseling for anxiety & depression
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Renée offers counseling for anxiety & depression
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