Gary Direnfeld
JUNE 9, 2024
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.
Gary Direnfeld
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
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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Gary Direnfeld
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
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.
Gary Direnfeld
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
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. With that the child can become depressed and/or anxious. These kids are often misdiagnosed.
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 14, 2023
For many, there is a relational aspect to anxiety. Those that get drawn in become part of a dynamic where as they try to comfort, cajole, support, facilitate, the one with the anxiety experiences and expresses greater fear. In turn, the anxiety escalates. They seek others to help them manage, make them feel safe or less anxious.
Gary Direnfeld
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Some kids develop tremendous anxieties that emerge at bedtime. It is that very process however that may be worsening the experience of anxiety for others. Research out of Yale University suggests that all that help and soothing is an issue and instead of the kid going to counseling, it’s the parent who should.
Gary Direnfeld
MARCH 31, 2025
So much of what kids are sent to counseling for can be dealt with by that connection. Assuming you are taking your kids to counseling, it is likely the drive together that is really the therapeutic benefit. Don’t discuss school or the counseling. In fact you don’t have to discuss anything.
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