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ANXIETY, DEPRESSION & GRIEF

Symptoms of Anxiety

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  • Heart palpitations

  • Insomnia/sleep difficulties

  • Feeling nervous, tense, or restless

  • Difficulty controlling thoughts or worry

  • Dread or an impending feeling of doom

  • Increased heart rate, skipped beats

  • Breathing rapidly (hyperventilation)

  • Overthinking/difficulty concentrating

  • Muscle spasms or twitching

  • Tightness or pains in the chest

  • Intrusive or irrational thoughts

  • Feeling fatigued or weak

  • Agitation/Irritability

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Depression
 

  • Nearly 21% (1 in 5) of adults in the United States will go on to develop a Major Depressive Disorder at some point in their lives

  • Depression affects more than 21 million American adults each year--about 8.4% of the U.S. population

  • Rates of depression are highest among young adults aged 18 to 29

  • Depression is diagnosed twice as often in women

  • 39% of adults and 60% of teens with depression don't receive treatment.
     

(National Institute of Mental Health, 2020)

Grief
 

  • Grief is not "letting go", but rather, moving through. We adjust to a new way of living without our loved one present, yet while finding an enduring connection

  • Highly Individualized--No two people experience a loss in the same way, nor does grief happen in neat stages

  • Relational--Relationships play important roles in our own identity and how we grieve

  • Cultural--Grief occurs in a social context

  • (Worden, J.W., 1991; Niemeyer, R.A., 1999)

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