Anxiety is a natural response to life’s uncertainties—it pushes us to seek balance and safety. However, when anxiety persists without a clear cause, it may indicate an anxiety disorder.
While some anxiety is normal, especially during uncertain times, chronic anxiety that lingers even when there is no obvious threat may be a sign of an anxiety disorder. It can affect your thoughts, mood, physical sensations, and behavior.
Your Vulnerabilities Being
Anxiety may cause feelings of helplessness, panic, or an overwhelming sense of threat.
You may struggle to manage these feelings.
Anxiety can lead to avoidance behaviors, where you actively avoid situations that trigger anxiety, which can, ironically, increase feelings of fear.
Therapy can help you identify distorted thoughts that are contributing to the fear and vulnerability. Treatment will focus on exploring the reality of these thoughts and developing more balanced ways of thinking.
Therapy will also explore how avoidance is depriving you of experiences and counterintuitively increasing your anxiety level.
Treatment will focus on reducing avoidance through carefully increasing yourexposure to the anxiety so that it is no longer worrisome.
Depression often accompanies anxiety, like a best friend, creating a powerful cycle of distress.
While it’s normal to feel sad or depressed during tough life circumstances like loss or stress, for many, these feelings don’t subside and can interfere with daily life.
Depression goes beyond just feeling sad. It’s a persistent feeling of hopelessness, worthlessness, and lack of interest in things you once enjoyed. It can interfere with sleep, energy, and motivation, making it difficult to function in daily life.
For some, depression lingers long after a difficult event has passed, affecting their overall well-being.
Depressed thoughts appear as negative thoughts, negative statements, and fixed beliefs
With severe depression, your behavior tends to focus on isolating yourself from the world
Further worsening your depression.
Therapy can help you identify distorted thoughts that are contributing to feeling sad and worthless. Treatment will focus on exploring the reality of these thoughts and developing more balanced ways of thinking.
Therapy will explore how to set realistic goals, increasing activities and building self-esteem through acceptance, gratitude, mindfulness, and commitment.
Therapy aims to help you identify your own distorted thoughts in order to change how you feel so that sadness does not linger when overcoming difficult times.
We’re here to help you address anxiety and depression through compassionate, evidence-based therapy. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, or both, our licensed therapists are ready to guide you toward lasting peace of mind.
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