Struggling with Overwhelming Emotions?
Our emotions are important. Emotions drive our actions and decisions; give us feedback about our likes, wants, and needs; bond us with other people; and even influence our values and our very sense of self. It is true that emotional overwhelm can be caused by genetic factors and biology; however, most often overwhelming feelings have many different causes that interact together. If you have been struggling with depression, grief, anger, anxiety, stress, or guilt—therapy can help.
Overwhelming emotions often arise during difficult periods in our life, or when there is a meaningful change—ending a relationship, entering a new phase of life, adjusting to a new job, moving to a new community, grieving a loss, struggling to make peace with the past, or juggling too many stressful things. Therapy can help you pause and work through your feelings about changes, relationships, or other situations arising in your life.
Experience the following?
Depression, sadness, or grief?
Can’t get motivated?
Anger or irritability?
Embarrassed when you express your feelings in front of other people ?
Crying too easily?
Can’t concentrate or focus?
Unsure about your life’s direction or purpose?
Going through a life change—loss, divorce or break-up, job change, new phase of life?
Been told you’re “too sensitive” and “shouldn’t worry so much”?
Mood swings from one extreme feeling to another?
Feel “numb” or detached?
Cope with emotions by numbing yourself with substances, food, sex, working too much, or hurting yourself in some way?
Learn to understand and manage your emotions in therapy.
Therapy helps you learn about your emotional patterns, understand the reasons behind your feelings, and get tools to work with than against your emotions. Evidence-based therapy helps you create a different relationship to your feelings so that you can feel less overwhelmed and more in control.
Check out evidence-based treatments for overwhelming emotions below