When Life Feels Overwhelming: Support at Ashburn
Generally, crises in our lives cause emotional pain and distress, but can be lived through with support from others – and learned from. However, a crisis can overwhelm our usual coping abilities and support systems. If this happens, we can often experience disturbed sleep, changeable moods, difficulty eating, and difficulty thinking and focusing on our day-to-day tasks. We might find ourselves using drugs or alcohol to try to cope, and these can become additional problems. Sometimes we can have quite extreme responses, and find ourselves thinking, feeling and behaving in ways which feel out of character for us.
A life crisis can potentially trigger an episode of major mental illness. Sometimes, what we need is simply time and additional support to regain our usual coping ability. And sometimes we may need treatment for an addiction or an episode of mental illness. We may need to take time to reflect more deeply on how we have responded to a particular life crisis and to explore what made us more vulnerable, so that the crisis can be learned from as well as mastered.
We can help by assessing your situation and determining the type of support you need. We can support you in regaining your usual coping ability; we can provide treatment for addictions or illnesses; and we can help you explore the crisis and your response to it more deeply.
