Anxiety and Depression
“Annnnnnnd…they’re off!”
Your worries are racing around your mental track again and again – and again.
You wish they’d jumped the fences and gone away by now, but no. They left you at the post, covered in dust.
You’re lumbering up the backstretch in last place – you can’t compete – and what’s more, you don’t even want to. You’ve lost your motivation to try.
The odds seem stacked against you.
You approach each day in denial – thinking, “If I just ignore it, it’ll go away.” Before you know it, though, anxiety has consumed your life.
The days are overwhelming. With every simple task, depression adds a heavy weight. Hours pass simultaneously like weeks and seconds – it’s time for bed, yet you’ve accomplished… nothing.
You’re not even close to any better than the day before.
Every time you think you might find an opening so you can make your move, those worries shut you out. Always getting in your way.
Why can’t you leave work at the end of your day?
Your mind constantly replays everything you did – or didn’t – do, need to do, must do. They loom larger and larger, and suddenly, your heart is racing. It may be a bit alarming, but you try to go on.
You. Can’t. Focus.
Angry, irritable, insecure, you keep beating yourself up for not doing a good job. Soon, it’s affecting not only you – you feel so low about yourself that it’s also affecting your friends and family.
How did this happen – when you’ve worked so hard to get where you are?
And still, it feels as though you’re dead last.
Anxiety and depression take a firm hold on those affected. The worries and worst-case scenarios playing out in your mind – the self-defeating nature of your visualizations – wreak havoc on your day.
They affect your energy, your social life, make even the simplest of life tasks very difficult. Simply making it through the day is nearly impossible.
How is it possible to feel so isolated?
No one truly understands why you would have a reason to be depressed or anxious.
They don’t “get” how these pair make you sad and tearful – how they make you fear living your life.
How they stress you out, plague your sleep. Either you’re sleeping too much, or panic wakes you in the middle of the night.
And there’s the racing heart again. Great. The next day, you’re exhausted. And there it goes again – day in and day out – another vicious cycle.
You think to yourself, “This isn’t going away on its own…”
In our sessions, we’ll talk about your life story – we’ll look deeply at what’s driving these anxious thoughts and depressive feelings. Then, we’ll resolve those deep-dive discoveries and work to change your chain of anxiety and depressive links.
You will be able to take a deep breath and feel at ease again. No more racing heart, no more worst-case scenarios, no more beating yourself up. We need to break these chains – for good.
We will use techniques based on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness practices, and Narrative Therapy. This combination of interventions will work together to calm your over-activated mind.
They will help you understand and ultimately change how you feel and act. They will help you get back to leaving your house and not getting hung up on what might happen.
Get back in balance – back to your best self.
The longer the patterns continue, the more they become your normal state.
But they don’t have to be.
By working together, we can get these thoughts under control. You can leave your house. You can leave work at work. You can feel motivated for the things you once loved.
Calm that hyperactive mind of yours – and reclaim your life.
Contact us now at (484) 214-2661 for your free 15-minute consultation.