Adults
ADHD in Adults
Adults with ADHD may have difficulty following directions, remembering information, concentrating, organizing tasks, or completing work within time limits. If these difficulties are not managed appropriately, they can cause associated behavioral, emotional, social, vocational, and academic problems.
Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are the most common of emotional disorders and affect more than 25 million Americans. Anxiety is a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. Many people feel anxious, or nervous, when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or making an important decision. Anxiety disorders, however, are different. They can cause such distress that it interferes with a person’s ability to lead a normal life.
Bipolar
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out daily tasks. Symptoms of bipolar disorder can be severe. Bipolar disorder often appears in the late teens or early adult years. People with bipolar disorder experience unusually intense emotional states that occur in distinct periods called “mood episodes.”
Signs and Symptoms:
An overly long period of feeling high or an happy or out going mood
Extreme irritability
Talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another, having racing thoughts
Being unusually distracted
Increasing activities, such as taking on multiple project
An overly long period of feeling sad or hopeless
Loss of interest in activities once enjoyed, including sex
Obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an illness that causes people to have unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and to repeat certain behaviors (compulsions) over and over again.
Panic Disorder
Panic disorder is different from the normal fear and anxiety reactions to stressful events in our lives. Panic disorder is a serious condition that strikes without reason or warning. Symptoms of panic disorder include sudden attacks of fear and nervousness, as well as physical symptoms such as sweating and a racing heart. .
Signs and symptoms:
Sudden and repeated attacks of fear
A feeling of being out of control during a panic attack
Physical symptoms during a attack, such as pounding or racing heart, sweating, breathing problems, weakness or dizziness, feeling hot or a cold chill, tingly or numb hands, chest pain or stomach pain.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD)
PTSD is a serious condition that can develop after a person has experienced or witnessed a traumatic or terrifying event in which serious physical harm occurred or was threatened. PTSD is a lasting consequence of traumatic ordeals that cause intense fear, helplessness, or horror, such as a sexual or physical assault, the unexpected death of a loved one, an accident, or natural disaster.
Signs and Symptoms
Repeatedly reliving the ordeal through thoughts and memories of the trauma.
Experiencing flashbacks, hallucinations, and nightmares.
Avoiding people, places, thoughts, or situations that may remind him or her of the trauma. .
Increased feeling or showing affection; difficulty falling or staying asleep; irritability; outbursts of anger; difficulty concentrating; and being “jumpy” or easily startled.
Here is a list of some of the other issues we work with:
Divorce
Seperation
Martial Stress
Work related Stress
Parenting
Family discord/conflict
Grief and loss
General everyday life struggles
This is a brief overview of the type of issues we work with. Please feel free to call us at (919) 774-8790 to discuss in confidence any concerns you are having.