DEPRESSION

Everyone gets the blues from time to time. But depression takes a person down deeper, stretches out longer, and if unchecked, can be considered a medical condition. Gain knowledge about ways to manage depression.

ANXIETY

Our world can be an anxiety-producing place. However, a person suffering from an anxiety disorder may be under a persistent cloud of restlessness, sometimes resulting in panic attacks. Due to racing thoughts, they may find it difficult to focus and follow through in their daily lives. 

TRAUMA

When someone experiences a terrible event, their immediate response may be to shut down with shock and denial. If the trauma isn’t processed, their emotional state may shift into mood swings, flashbacks, tearfulness, and extreme agitation, leaving them unable to move on in their lives. 

FEELINGS OF HELPLESSNESS

If someone is in a state of helplessness, they may feel weakened, dependent, and struggling to handle their daily adult activities. This lack of agency may increase their belief that they are powerless to make the changes to improve their life, thus reinforcing their helplessness.

FEELINGS OF HOPELESSNESS

Hopelessness is a bleak emotion. Someone may feel that options are limited, if non-existent, leaving them with a deepening sense of desperation. 

SHAME

This is a painful emotion in which a person believes they are inherently flawed, thus unworthy as a human being. If this belief is unchecked, a person could shut down and avoid growth opportunities thus keeping them more firmly into the self-sabotaging shame cycle.