Anxiety & Depression
Anxiety & Depression
What is your responsibility and what is not? What piece of an outcome are you actually in control of? Think back to the most recent bout of heart-pounding, mind-racing attack of anxiety. Was it because you felt out of control? Was it because you felt like you should've done more? Done less? Or were you simply surprised by new information that you hadn't previously been made aware of?
When was the last time you couldn't bring yourself to have an inkling of a desire to get out of bed? What happened that made you want to not be in the world, make you think that you are just a failure and have nothing good to offer anyone? Was it a time that something didn't turn out the way you had thought? Did you make either a mental or physical plan that went awry?
Circumstances do make us feel something. The fact that you are feeling something when things around you actually a GREAT thing! There are plenty of people who completely ignore how they feel and eventually have a hard time being driven towards or away from anything.
An extreme unregulated feeling of any kind, anxiety or depression can lead to very unhealthy outcomes when left unchecked. By defining or maybe Re-Defining what anxiety or depression is, it can change the way you view it and its surrounding circumstances and assist in changing your outcome!
For example, anxiety is simply unregulated worry. Worry is actually just thinking ahead but coupled with a negative outcome conclusion. Its assuming the worst. Anxiety is assuming the worst is true and factual before it has even happened. Understanding what anxiety actually is and getting to the bottom of what and how is it effecting you is what Andrew is here to help with. Understanding that depression is different than grief and how to continue to live with it in your life, rather than wanting them to "go away" is life-changing. After the loss of his 3 boys' mother in 2020, Andrew knows what it is like to live in grief and how to have a healthy and healing process when life's uncontrollable circumstances cause extreme sadness and pain.