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Category Archives: Depression

Understanding Depression: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Counseling, Depression, Mental Health

Introduction Depression is more than feeling sad after a difficult day. Everyone experiences periods of sadness, disappointment, stress, or low energy, but depression can persist and begin to interfere with how a person thinks, feels, behaves, and manages everyday life. It can affect sleep, appetite, concentration, relationships, work, school, and interest in activities that once …

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Breaking the Cycle of Feeling Invisible: The Hidden Toll on Mental Health

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Counseling, Depression, Individual Counseling

Feeling invisible, unseen, or unheard can happen in the home, the workplace, a classroom, a doctor’s office, social settings, or when supervising a team of subordinates. Middle children, very young children, women, victims of bullying, religious and racial minorities, the obese, the soft-spoken, and men short in statue often experience invisibility, “the inability to be seen …

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Senior Citizens Dealing With Mental Health Illness During the Pandemic

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Depression, Individual Counseling

The family is vaccinated, the bags are packed, the car is loaded, and your headed off to your favorite vacation spot. You stop on the way to pick up the grandparents and to your surprise there’s no answer. It’s the first time in over a year you could all be together yet ringing the bell …

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