Anxiety and Depression

Are you experiencing anxiety?

Are worry and repeating negative thoughts preventing you from enjoying life?

Do you feel a heightened sense of danger?

Do negative thoughts keep racing through your head, making it challenging to rest, sleep, or concentrate?

If you answer yes, these may be signs of persistent anxiety.

What is anxiety?

With anxiety, different situations create different worries but end in the same place: uncomfortable sensations in your body, feeling out of control, and hypervigilance, anticipating that something terrible is coming next.

Sometimes, that anticipation is in overdrive. Our brains haven’t entirely caught up to the fact that predators don’t threaten us. As a result, we can latch onto less life-threatening situations and respond as if our lives depended on them.

You may constantly feel stressed about a negative outcome from a work meeting, dreading social interactions, or fear losing control. Your brain’s absolute objective is to help you survive. It tries to anticipate danger so that you are prepared to respond to it.

When anxiety takes charge, you lose control.

Are you experiencing persistent depression?

Do you feel like you don’t have the joy you once felt?

Has your life slowed down to the point where everything seems hopeless?

Is there an overwhelming sense of sadness? Do you feel helpless?

These are signs of depression.

What is depression?

Depression is caused by a combination of situational, biological, and social factors that interplay to deplete your sense of well-being.

That lack of spark, feelings of hopelessness, and inability to see the positive or engage in activities are all depressive symptoms.

Depression can impact us physically and emotionally, making it challenging to navigate life.

Anxiety and depression often go hand in hand.

If you’re too anxious to perform, it’s depressing. If you’re too depressed to do anything, it creates anxiety.

Perhaps feelings of hopelessness make you anxious. Maybe you vacillate between being unable to get through the day and feeling overwhelmed to get through the day, no matter how hard you work.

These may be signs that you are dealing with both depression and anxiety.

Here is the good news!

Therapy can help you address and mitigate the anxiety and/or depression you feel.

If you are experiencing any of these situations, it’s worth investigating further.

I use several therapeutic approaches that can help you change the way you respond to situations that cause anxiety or depression. You can learn methods to help you deal with those negative thoughts that cause depression or issues and situations that increase anxiety.

If you are suffering from anxiety, depression, or both, I can help. Contact me today for a free consultation to explore your symptoms and discuss how therapy can help.

Therapy is a powerful tool. Reach out and learn more about how it can benefit you.