Anxiety and depression are serious psychological disorders that keep people from living in the current moment and the life they want to live. Individuals with anxiety get anxious quickly about anything, while a person in depression usually feels stuck with the past incidents.
While depression and anxiety can impact different individuals differently, yet can be cured with a variety of treatments, from therapy to medications. For mild to moderate symptoms, they can consult a psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric nurses and also social workers. For severe symptoms of anxiety or clinical depression and anxiety, they can visit a clinical psychologist. Primary health care physicians also can diagnose any mental health issues and may prescribe medicines for general anxiety or may refer you to a mental health professional.
Mental health disorders like depression and anxiety if left untreated for a long time can impact all areas of a person’s life completely. Sufferers may isolate themselves as they believe that people will not understand their reasons behind being gloomy. People suffering from depression often are insecure about everything in their own life, especially in relationships. They become emotionally overwhelmed easily triggered by circumstances, events, people and feelings.
Anxiety feeds their thoughts and always spirals down to the worst possible outcomes in a situation: such as fear of losing a job, or losing a friend or loved one. There can be certain kinds of negative thoughts about the situations that the worst may occur and that they deserve it. It feels challenging and impossible to come out of such negative thoughts especially because they think that others may judge them for their situation.
Anxiety attacks phobias and panic attacks are often connected to people with anxiety. These phobias sometimes are so strong and unpleasant that they always fear bad things happening again a withdraw themselves from opening up.
Why counselling for anxiety and depression
It has been noticed that people with general anxiety respond to counselling well and most people not just recover but get back to their normal life again and live a life they wanted to live before encountering anxiety or depression. Nowadays people are also preferring online counselling for anxiety which is convenient and affordable.
Counselling is a talk therapy that provides an individual with a safe space to talk without the fear of getting judged or risk to their life's private matters. What is discussed in counselling and therapy between the therapist and client always remains between them. A counsellor helps you by exploring your emotional reactions to the situation. And finding out the triggers, reasons or evidence for your negative thoughts and beliefs.
After finding out the triggers a counsellor helps you to learn the mindful ways to deal with the triggers and handle your fears. The focus of counselling is to make you aware of the worst picture and provide you with tools to deal with the situations positively. An individual needs to be regular with the sessions recommended by the therapist, skipping sessions can delay the treatment, and impact their recovery, increasing the chances of falling back into depression ad anxiety.
For people who feel difficulty sticking to the regular counselling sessions due to the hassle of travelling, online counselling is the best option to seek treatment, as they can connect with a counsellor using their mobile or laptop from the comfort of their own home. Online counselling also gives a client the convenience of choosing the time for online counselling sessions or appointments. All they need is an intenet-enabled device with good speed.