Depression Treatment

Depression can occur at anytime and affect anybody. People often describe depression as a fog that comes over them and does not lift, it remains throughout their daily life. Many people feel like they have no energy and can't concentrate. Others feel irritable all the time for no apparent reason. The symptoms vary from person to person, but if you feel "down" for more than two weeks, and these feelings are interfering with your daily life, you may be clinically depressed.

Depression is a treatable illness. Depression treatment is avaiable for all types of depression. The causes of depression may be varied. Treating depression is especially important because it affects you, your family, and your work. Some people with depression try to harm themselves in the mistaken belief that how they are feeling will never change.

It is important to seek help from a health care team. This includes your local doctor and a trained counsellor. Treatment ranges from medication, daily exercise regime, and reviewing your lifestyle.Your doctor may refer you to counselling so that you can talk about how your feeling and develop strategies to assist you become well again.

Is Depression Common ?

Very Common. Around 1 million Australian Adults and 100,000 young people live with depression each year. 1 in 5 people will experience depression in their lifetime.

Anxiety Treatment

Everyone experiences anxiety to some degree. Anxiety is caused by the perception of fear, or in other words, by thinking fearfully.

While the negative effects of acute or chronic anxiety may feel like a random, unknown, and uncontrollable disease, they are actually quite reversible. The problem is that most people don’t know how.

Anxiety conditions appear for specific reasons and have definite reasons why they persist. Should anxiety continue in your life and remain untreated you are at risk of developing an anxiety disorder. Once these reasons are identified and properly addressed, anxiety conditions along with their symptoms can be eliminated. Anxiety treatment options include CBT, Relaxation and Breathing Techniques.

Call Wendy Gardiner 0402 302 099 or (02) 9713 7501