Help For Anxiety & Depression
Anxiety is a thought-driven emotion.
It can literally consume your mind and your time to the point where it’s hard to engage in relationships, work, or even outside of your own home. Anxiety can engulf your inner-beliefs and replace them with horrible conclusions set to destroy what little self-confidence or self-respect you have left. Why? Because that’s what anxiety is meant to do. It’s meant to cause so much doubt that you believe that staying in your crippling state is better than the possibility of fighting it.
Depression has everything to do with perspective. We all engage with people, places and things that trigger us to have responses/reactions to those situations, and ultimately we draw conclusions of ourselves based on all of those interactions. Depression is unique because what it convinces you to believe is the reason why things suck, the reasons why people don’t like you, the reason why you are alone, the reason why things will never turn for the better is because of YOU. Depression tells you that YOU are the common denominator for all things negative and therefore you are destined for a bad life. With that perspective, why try and fight it, right? This is what leads to the low energy, inability to get out of bed, loss of interest in activities, poor hygiene, etc.
You cannot change what you don’t understand.
You first have to understand the problem so that you can counter it effectively. It’s important for you to understand anxiety and depression before attempting to fight against it. This is why the previous paragraphs are so important. You have to understand your specific anxiety and/or depression and then transition to “what do I do about it?”
With both depression and anxiety, the solution is simple but not easy. With anxiety, you need to fight a thought with a thought. Since anxiety is a thought-driven emotion, it’s important to find realistic and applicable thoughts that counter what your anxiety-feeding thoughts are. It also takes time and practice before your physical symptoms begin to subside, which sometimes leads to frustration. When you fight the thoughts but don’t experience immediate changes you question the positive thoughts. With great practice, finding the right thoughts to fight anxious thoughts can help significantly reduce anxiety.
With depression, it boils down to a shift in perspective. One has to recognize the negative filter that depression feeds on, and find alternative ways to perceive interaction and self-identity. Shifting the perspective of life coupled with developing a healthy sense of self can effectively remove depressive symptoms and thoughts.
Both of these are obstacles Alcántara Wellness has effectively conquered for many years. Our team is well versed in understanding the different forms of anxiety and depression, and can coach you on ways to conquer them in your life.