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The Draining Cycle of Depression, Anxiety, and ADHD
Ready For Relief? Let Our ADHD Experts Help You Take Back Control.
The combination of depression, anxiety, and ADHD can feel overwhelming. Each diagnosis feeds into the other, creating a cycle that can be hard to break. Understanding this interaction is essential for finding relief and improving mental health and that is where our counselors can help!
Many ADHD individuals also experience anxiety and depression. Studies suggest that about 30% to 50% of ADHD individuals will face anxiety disorders at some point in their lives. Similarly, depression can affect about 20% to 30% of those ADHD individuals. This overlap raises serious concerns about treatment and management.
Not only this, but ADHD also comes with distractibility, restlessness, low motivation, as well as challenges with impulsivity, forgetfulness and a general feeling of overwhelm, exhaustion and emotional rejection. These fuel anxiety and depression as well as all of the negative thinking patterns that often consume ADHDers, which of course, then continue the cycle of anxiety and depression.
➤ How can therapy help break the cycle of anxiety and depression?
Our therapists can help you not only understand the importance of breaking that cycle but also provide realistic tools and strategies to combat the thinking patterns that inhibit your freedom from anxiety and depression. We will focus on recognizing the link between ADHD and the underlying patterns that trigger anxiety and depression.
Some of this will focus on improving executive function strategies to reduce the disorganization that oftentimes fuels feelings of sadness, overwhelm and rejection.
➤ Our therapists will assist with developing
- Structured routines to help decrease disorganization in the home and work
- Mindfulness techniques and exercises to help focus and reduce anxiety
- Techniques to explore sources of anxiety and depression and how to shift away from those patterns
- Focus on executive function challenges
- Improved communication strategies to reduce relationship impacts
- Anger management strategies
- Improved coping mechanisms and reduced unhealthy substitutions
The Dandelion Difference
We do our best to make the process of therapy exactly what you need.
Yoga and Mindfulness
Social Skills Classes
Weekly Parent Sessions
Neurofeedback
Teacher Recommendations
Unlimited Calls and Email
Written Accommodations
Classroom Observations
Due to our intensive parenting support process, in addition to individual weekly child sessions, weekly parenting sessions are expected at the beginning of therapy. The duration of these sessions depends on the level of distress in the family and the level of parenting needs. With meeting weekly, many families meet their goals in 6-8 months!
