There has been a steady increase in the prevalence of depression and anxiety in adults, teens, and adolescents over the past 8–10 years. Numbers spiked in 2020 during the COVID pandemic and continue to rise.
There are many overlapping symptoms between depression and anxiety. Symptoms can manifest physically through digestive issues, headaches, disrupted or excessive sleep, and motor control difficulty. Symptoms can display emotionally, psychologically, and cognitively through sadness, helplessness, anger, guilt, fear, worry, panic, impaired attention, memory, and processing speed, and through impaired decision-making.
Therapy can:
- Provide a safe place to explore feelings and thoughts
- Identify causes and/or contributors to the depression or anxiety
- Teach skills to effectively deal with negative emotions and thoughts
- Improve coping skills
- Help individuals to develop healthy behaviors
- Strengthen relationships and social support
- Help individuals to develop a sense of control and purpose
- Improve coping skills
- Lower the risk of future episodes