Anxiety / Depression
Kari Walton Counselling may help with Anxiety if:
- You often feel fear or avoid environments with a large group of people
- You feel worry a large amount of the time, this worry interferes with you attending events or activities (new or previously attended).
- Your body feels restless, tense, trembles, rise in heart rate, sweaty, sense of doom, can’t concentrate.
- Avoidance of things you feel will trigger anxiety.
- Constant and large concern of others thinking badly of you or judging you.
- You find that these feelings are disruptive to you being able to freely enjoy your life.
- You have had repeated feelings of panic which ultimately ended in a physical panic attack.
- When exposed to an activity\situation\object you experience a panic attack.
We can Help when:
- Your feelings of fear or anxiety are becoming more difficult to control.
- You notice that your anxiety is interfering with your work and social life.
- You are using drugs/alcohol to help cope with your overwhelming feelings.
- SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION RIGHT AWAY (CALL 911) If you have/having thoughts of suicide or behaviours that mimics suicide.
In life, everyone experiences times of feeling low or ‘down’. But depression may be occurring if these times persist and are possibly associated with:
- Sense of emptiness, sadness, hopelessness, numbness.
- Difficulty maintaining daily self-care, completing tasks and inability to concentrate.
- Lack of interest in activities usually enjoyed, less contact with friends and family.
- Tiredness, unexplained aches and pains, headaches.
- Increase or decrease in sleeping and eating.
- Increase in drinking, drug use.
- Thoughts of self-harm, suicide.
Kari Walton Counselling may be able to help reduce symptoms of depression with guidance and support to:
- Identify and replace negative, counterproductive thoughts and behaviours.
- Improve problem-solving skills and communication.
- Increase involvement in preferred activities.
- Bring awareness to past trauma or triggers.
- Identify unhealthy relationships.
- Build and strengthen a network of social support
- Set goals that are realistic and attainable.
- Re-discover what it feels like to be content, happy.