Anxiety and Depression
You’re sick of feeling anxious!
Yesterday, you felt so anxious about your child all morning. Did they make it to school safe? Did they get enough to eat?
All day, you spent your time worrying about bills, whether people at work liked you, relationships with your partner, or if you were too overbearing during the meeting last night.
Feeling anxious creates a sense of worry and fearfulness from everyday experiences, which is not how to have a peaceful life.
Being constantly depressed is tiring.
Today! You feel worn out, run-down, sad, and without the energy to get things done!
Even pulling yourself out of bed is a struggle. Taking care of yourself is exhausting, making you think, “Why bother fixing breakfast?”
You can shake this sense of hopelessness, robbing you of any sense of pleasure.
Numbness defines a good day.
Not every day is full of anxiety or depression! Therefore, you consider a “numb day” to represent a small win that keeps you slugging forward. But why? Why, on the days you don’t feel anxious or depressed, do you feel numb? Rarely do you feel just happy.
You remember the last time you felt happy! And you continue to wait for that day to come along.
The cycle seems never-ending.
Meg* defined herself as an “emotional walking zombie.”
She came to my office struggling with feeling anxious or depressed and rarely anything in between.
Meg felt confused and could not explain why she tended to lash out at her loved ones, family, and random strangers. She couldn’t put a finger on the problem.
Now, through therapy, Meg understands that events in the past were the source of her struggles with anxiety and depression. She continues with treatment and has found herself not just stopping bad habits but genuinely feeling better about life and not having such nasty, impulsive outbursts.
Sandra* vacillated between anxiety and depression daily.
She struggled with her inner world and felt she was the worst person – making her not loved, unwanted, alone, and that she was not good enough. No matter what she did, she felt so strongly that her loved ones would leave her.
Sandra understood that she did not think highly of herself. On some days, her depression was so bad that she found it hard to get dressed. Then, on other days, Suzan worried about many different things and constantly blamed herself for not being good enough. Something needed to end because she was tired of her self-degrading feelings.
Sandra and I worked together to help her evaluate her internal emotional state and find ways to overcome those periods of depression and anxiety. Now, she notices the changes have begun and are continuing to happen.
Although Sandra is not free from anxiety and depression and still has moments, she can smile now! She is more hopeful therapy will help her reach her goal.
Don’t let anxiety and depression rule your life!
Therapy can make a tremendous difference. Both Meg and Suzan benefitted, and you can, too.
There is a way out of this cycle, and I will work with you as you find that way out.
Call today to find out how others have found ways to end the cycle and how I can help you.
*These are fictitious names and scenarios used only to illustrate real-life situations.