Anxiety & Depression

Sometimes, depression is just too hard!

Depression is like a weight bearing down on you. Your mood is one enormous dark cloud looming overhead, not just blocking light but making you feel its weight, holding you in place.

The stress of it all makes you want to do nothing, and recovering from the energy of it all is exhausting!

This persistent sadness overpowers all else. “There is supposed to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Where is it?”

You always feel frustrated, irritable, or both. Moods result in feeling very high or low, with nothing in between. “No one cares; no one knows how I feel or how my depression feels.”

Sometimes, it’s just too hard. Everything seems so dark and dreary. Sweats, yelling, freezing up, lashing out, nausea, blaming others, shakes, and feelings of panic or danger make you want to avoid situations with friends and family. “Why does this happen to me? Why do I feel this way? Why do I act this way to those I love?” “I wish I could shed some light on why I feel the way I do.”

Will the worries never cease?

Your anxiety has created a never-ending sense of restlessness, which makes you feel constantly on edge. Worrying makes you feel exhausted, but a good night’s sleep is rare.

The inability to concentrate makes performing tasks difficult, especially since your worries create significant distractions.

There seems to be danger around every corner, and making decisions is difficult because you worry about making the wrong one.

You may avoid what you perceive as threatening or challenging situations, which can make maintaining relationships, even with family, difficult. “Will I ever see the light at the end of this tunnel?”

Light is the brightness that drowns the dark.

Light is also the feather, the ease, airy feeling of no weight. The light does exist at the end of the tunnel. You may not see it today; however, as the storm passes, you can see the break in the clouds. It all begins with a spark, a flicker, and lightning in one part of the darkness.

Just as the weight is perception, the perception that creates the anxiousness, the reactions. These weights, feelings, and reactions are different for everyone. However, the solution is twofold and always the same: decrease the weight (stress) or build the muscle to carry what is needed. Maybe it’s both.

You can see it either way: lighten the load, address the cause, turn that heaviness into a feather, or build the muscle, find the tool, the way to cope with it, and have the confidence to take it on without stress.

Ok, so it can be challenging with weights, feathers, light, and dark. This sounds like some mumbo jumbo.

How? Now what?

It would help if you had a partner, a mental, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual guide who can see, understand, identify, and provide the next step, one step at a time.

As we work together, you can put one foot in front of the other, open your eyes to the paths available to you, receive the tools to see and walk on them, and gain the power to choose the path forward.

It’s time to choose another path – one leading away from the anxiety and depression you feel and toward brightness and a better life.

Complete the form below, and let’s work to help you change directions.