Mental Health – Anxiety and Depression

Worries make you anxious about the present and future.

Anxiety is a feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness. It might cause you to sweat, feel restless and tense, and have a rapid heartbeat.

Having feelings of anxiousness can be a normal stress reaction. For example, you might feel anxious when faced with a complex problem at work, before taking a test, or before making an important decision.

Unfortunately, anxiety can also run rampant, control your life, and hold you in its grip even when you are unsure what it is that makes you scared.

Anxiety can make you feel like you have Kryptonite in your chest and stomach – and you know how superman felt around Kryptonite.

When anxiety persists – life changes for the worse.

Anxiety can have such a tight grip on you that it begins to rule your life, impacting you physically and emotionally.

Feelings of extreme anxiety are like an enemy from within, making every daily task seem like an overwhelming obstacle. Your world becomes smaller and smaller, causing you to wonder if you will ever feel confident again.

Dealing with persistent anxiety makes you feel like drowning, but as you look around, everybody else seems to do fine in their lives.

Although anxiety is different from depression, they can show similar symptoms, but the two can also have other causes and express other symptoms.

With depression, life offers few pleasures.

Depression is that feeling of exhausting, paralyzing sadness, dreariness, worry, guilt, regret, low self-esteem, or hopelessness.

Delusions, hallucinations, and other unpleasant feelings can accompany depression. And depression makes you feel like a different person – angry and unable to enjoy things that once gave you pleasure.

Often, depression has an impact on your work, school, and personal life. Self-medication for depression can include excessive sleeping, eating, drinking, substance abuse, isolation, and self-harm.

Everything becomes an impossible task, and the weight of depression can impact your physical well-being.

Don’t let anxiety and depression paralyze you!

Anxiety and depression can suck the joy out of you – making you feel like your whole life is a failure.

Therapy provides a way out of anxiety and depression.

There are skills you can learn to manage strong emotions and tools to find the source of your anxiety or depression.

I can be with you on your way to recreate a life where you can use all your superpowers again, where you regain your confidence. Contact me today, and let’s identify the root causes of your anxiety or depression.