Navigating Life with High Functioning Anxiety or Depression: A Compassionate Approach from a Therapist in Sacramento
Living with "high functioning" anxiety or depression is a journey that often involves a great deal of effort and well-honed coping mechanisms. These strategies can mask the symptoms of anxiety or depression to the outside world, yet internally, individuals may grapple with an ongoing struggle to maintain functioning.
What you Should Know about Mood Swings
Having mood swings doesn't mean you're a failure or that depression, mania or bipolar disorder has "won." It means you need to reduce stressors and increase self-care. Adjusting to mood swings in a healthy way is one of the most difficult skills for people who are living with bipolar or any mood disorder to master. I specialize in helping people increase self-awareness, create a mood swing response plan, and gain understanding of how to move forward using healthy coping skills with self-confidence.
The Supreme Court affirms the basic human need for belonging
Belongingness is a fundamental human need that we benefit from individually as well as at the community and societal levels. Belonging means we are an accepted and wanted member of a group, whether it's an organized club or a loose collection of peers. Today the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot ban same sex marriages, providing an affirmation that our love counts, that we belong.
5 Tips to combat anxiety and fear of change
While we may feel more in control by sticking to what is familiar, it can also limit our experiences and trap us into a false belief that we can't make positive changes, which may lead to depression and anxiety.