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Depression and anxiety are two common mental health conditions that are often intertwined with each other. Because about 60 percent of people with depression also suffer from anxiety and vice versa, it can be difficult to distinguish them.
Mars & Venus Counseling Center collaborates with patients and focuses on personal growth. We identify and discuss the strengths you already have and then apply new knowledge and self-awareness to achieve deeper insight into your goals and objectives. You’ll gain better control over your ability to balance your emotions and achieve your desired outcomes in your relationships and life.
These are some dissimilarities between depression and anxiety. Anxiety affects more than twice as many Americans as depression. About 7 percent of us live with depression, and 19 percent experience some form of constant anxiety. Anxiety and depression have a lot in common. Both are activated by a mixture of heredity and outside circumstances such as trauma and stress.
Hormones may also trigger depression, which is theorized to be why women are twice as susceptible to both disorders than men. Anxiety frequently presents itself immediately before or after the start of adolescence. Depression commonly shows up between adolescence and mid-adulthood (ages 40 to 50).
For people suffering from both depression and anxiety, anxiety commonly comes to light before major depression. Among signs of anxiety are irritability, problems concentrating, agitation and irrepressible worrying. Depression features despair and desolation. Intersecting signs include insomnia, fatigue, or inexplicable aches and pain.
Therapy plays an important role in treating anxiety and depression, especially when they’re simultaneous. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is talk therapy that can help alleviate both disorders, but, depending on which of the two ailments you have, your therapist might put you on a different route. CBT teaches anxious people how to confront their thought patterns that provoke anxiety. For the depressed, CBT focuses more on negative thought patterns that influence your mood.
Medications can reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Several—selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and tricyclics—fight depression and anxiety. Anxiolytics and beta-blockers target anxiety. Only psychiatrists, who graduated from medical school, can legally prescribe psychiatric meds. A therapist can refer her (or his) patients to a psychiatrist for meds. The patients will continue to see the therapist and visit the psychiatrist for periodic check-ins and possible refills.
Mars & Venus Counseling Center’s reputation for excellence is based on providing experienced and compassionate care with an unparalleled level of skill to give our patients the very best treatment results.For more information, please don’t hesitate to make an appointment.
By New Jersey Centers for Counseling
September 29, 2022