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Mood disorders are a group of mental health illnesses that severely affect your emotions, while Anxiety is defined by persistent, excessive worry and fear.
both causing severe distress or an impact on your day-to-day life
Our emotions drive our behaviour every minute of the day. Emotional distress can look like:
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Feeling sadness, dejection, hopelessness or irritability often.
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Anxiety and fears around social situations, planning tasks and the future.
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Cancelling social plans.
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Struggling to identify or label how you're feeling.
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Patterns of low motivation, a loss of pleasure and isolating yourself.
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Panic attacks that can come out of nowhere.
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Patterns of over-planning, feeling stressed when plans change.
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Intrusive thoughts that can turn self-critical.
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Feelings of restlessness, feeling uneasy about your future
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Passing or frequent thoughts of not wanting to be here or self-harm.
Mood disorders and anxiety are highly treatable, as they occur most frequently in humans. Therefore, they are researched heavily and have the most evidence-based strategies to help support recovery.
Mood and
Anxiety
How can Mood and Anxiety be treated?
Through exploring your current emotional state and how you would like to feel
Anxiety-reducing strategies such as deep breathing, exposure work, thought defusion
Learning new ways of thinking about yourself and responding to situations
Untangling distress and harmonizing the mind-body connection when anxiety or depression occurs
Lifestyle and stress management
Targeting cultural stress factors like family conflict or discrimination at work
Learning about your thoughts, emotions and behaviour cycles to identify your patterns
Medication such as anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medications and mood stabilizers