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Medication for Depression or Anxiety

Gary Direnfeld

If you have been prescribed medication for depression or anxiety, it is important to know it can take a good four to six weeks before you truly feel the benefit. Unlike a Tylenol for a headache which usually reaches therapeutic level in about 20 minutes, medications for depression and anxiety literally takes weeks.

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When the kid listens in without the parent knowing….

Gary Direnfeld

It also tends to lead to mental health problems for the child who seeks to take on this role. The anxiety is about seeing another episode of the issue coming and not being able to stop it. Depression and/or anxiety in kids can show itself through behavior as well as school issues or those of concentration and attention.

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Treating Anxiety

Gary Direnfeld

About that anxiety. Given an anxiety disorder, the saying, “trust your gut,” just doesn’t hold. As for medication, typically those referred to as SSRIs are helpful for an anxiety disorder. The nature of the disorder is to be held hostage by feelings that don’t fully fit the situation.

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Connect to Your Kid

Gary Direnfeld

Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. If not, you are missing many more posts! I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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Managing Your Child’s Anxiety.

Gary Direnfeld

That childhood anxiety. As you ask the many questions seeking an answer as to why from the child, you may inadvertently be ramping up anxiety for you both. Anxiety, as a disorder, is about feelings betraying the mind as the feelings are either disproportionate to the triggering event or an independent experience.

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Those Mental Health Symptoms May Have a Physical Basis

Gary Direnfeld

Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. If not, you are missing many more posts! I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.

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Sometimes You Just Have to Accept It

Gary Direnfeld

Check out all my services and then call me if you need help with a personal issue, mental health concern, child behavior or relationship, divorce or separation issue or even help growing your practice. If not, you are missing many more posts! I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker.