Relationships
Relationship counseling is the process of counseling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress. The relationship involved may be between members of a family or a couple (see also family therapy), employees or
employers in a workplace, or between a professional and a client.
Depression
Major depressive disorder (depression) is not just a temporary mood, and it’s not a sign of personal weakness. Depression is a serious medical condition with a variety of symptoms. Emotional symptoms can include sadness, loss of interest in things you once enjoyed, feelings of guilt or worthlessness, and trouble making decisions. Physical symptoms can include fatigue, aches and pains, and changes in weight or sleep patterns.
Someone with depression might think or say any of the following:
- “I feel sad all the time”
- “I just don’t feel like myself”
- “I don’t enjoy being with my friends or doing any of the things I usually love to do.”
- “I’ keep having aches and pains, and I don’t know why”
- “Sometimes I feel like my life is not worth living anymore.”
Cognitive therapy
helps you change harmful ways of thinking. If you tend to see things negatively, it teaches you how to look at the world more clearly.
Behavioral therapy
helps you change harmful ways of acting. The goal is to get control over behavior that is causing problems for you.
Interpersonal therapy
helps you learn to relate better with others. You’ll focus on how to express your feelings, and how to develop better people skills.
The Different Types of Amdety
Anxiety disorders are complex emotional disturbances that have many related counterparts. This pages briefly discusses the different types of arudety. Many amdety disorders cross-over, with individuals experiencing a combination of symptoms associated with two or three different anxiety disorders.
Social Anxiety Disorder
The unifying characteristic in social anxiety disorder is a fear of performing poorly in social situations and suffering from embarrassment or humiliation. By definition, social situations mean interacting with or performing for other people and being under their potential scrutiny. Social Amdety extends beyond shyness; it can limit the social lives, education, and even the career choices of those who suffer from it.
Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks
A panic attack causes the fastest and most complex reaction lcnown within the human body. The symptoms of panic attack include immediate alteration of the functioning of the eyes, several major glands, the brain, the heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, pancreas, kidneys and bladder, and the major muscle groups. ‘This physical response can lead to emotional responses such as the belief that one is dying. Generally speaking, the more physical symptoms one has during an attack, the more emotionally devastating a panic attack can be.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
While it is normal to experience anxiety in reaction to dangerous, uncertain, or threatening situations, people with Generalized Arodety Disorder experience arociety. constantly. People with Generalized Anxiety Disorder experience pathological amdety, which is excessive, chronic, and typically interferes with their ability to function in normal daily activities. Someone who suffers from Generalized Anxiety Disorder may worry about any and everything in his/her life.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (0CD)
OCD is characterized by obsessions and compulsions that are time-consuming, distressing, and interfere with normal routines, relationships, and daily activities.
Stress
Though it is a commonly used term, many people do not understand the physical and emotional implications of stress. The effects of stress make daily tasks difficult. Stress affects the performance of the brain. When people are under stress, their memory suffers. Stress can cause irritability and nervousness.
Phobias
A specific phobia is an intense fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Some of die more common specific phobias are centered around closed-in places, heights, escalators, tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, dogs, and injuries involving blood.
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that can develop following a terrifying event. Often, people with PTSD have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and feel emotionally numb.
Addictions
Addiction is one of the toughest problems facing our culture today. The growing problems within the family, as well as many other cultural stressors, malce addiction a national and international problem that is growing by leaps and bounds. In the U.S. we have promoted an “immediate gratification” mentality that tends to feed the addictive process. Contrary to some popular thought, people don’t become addicted to drugs, alcohol, or sex just for the fun of it. There are usually reasons why an addiction happens. And these same reasons malce an addiction difficult to stop.