How to Recover During a Nervous Breakdown Outside of Therapy Sessions
There is no standard definition of a nervous breakdown. However, The New York Times labels a nervous breakdown as a mental state in which a person is undergoing extreme stress that inhibits them from functioning normally on a day-to-day basis. People experience nervous breakdowns because they feel overwhelmed with extreme stress, intense difficulties, unmet expectations, and disappointing frustrations. In East Lyme, Connecticut, Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching offers professional help if you are experiencing nervous breakdowns.
Who Has a Nervous Breakdown?
A breakdown caused by stress can happen to everyone because stress is “a normal human response to anything physical or emotional that places a strain on the person,” said Dr. Gail Saltz, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at The New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
If you have had a nervous breakdown, or are currently undergoing one, keep in mind that you are not alone. Additionally, nervous breakdowns can happen to anybody, at any age, anywhere. Studies by the Mental Health America (MHA) found that 9.7% of the youth in the U.S. suffered major depression in 2021 and that 19% of adults experienced a mental illness in 2017-2018.
It is important to become aware of some of the signs of a nervous breakdown so that you can learn to properly access yourself, avoid your triggers, and manage any stressful situation.
Signs and Symptoms of a Nervous Breakdown
It is important to know when you are having a nervous breakdown. A health article on SymptomFind lists the main signs of a nervous breakdown. They include depressive symptoms, anxiety, extreme mood swings, and hallucinations. You may also experience panic attacks, social withdrawal, or flashbacks of a traumatic event.
Other nervous breakdown symptoms may include changes in sleeping pattern, increased irritability, and nability to focus at work or studies
By understanding the triggers, signs, and symptoms of a nervous breakdown, you are preparing yourself to handle any difficult situation the next time it arises. Furthermore, one way to prepare yourself is to develop your own personal coping mechanisms. Working with a holistic therapists in East Lyme, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching supports self-care. Here some common ways people deal with and recover from a nervous breakdown.
What to Do During a Nervous Breakdown
• Take deep breaths: By taking 10 deep breaths, you focus your mind on inhaling fresh air, and exhaling the air, which diverts your mind away from stress and brings your attention to the calming exercise.
• Call a friend: Reaching out and connecting with someone you are close to can help alleviate stress and allow you to free yourself from anxiety. Also, your holistic therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut can be a resource.
• Dance: Dancing allows your body to move while making your mind experience the joy of feeling happy. With your holistic therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut, you can incorporate dance, yoga, and joyful movement.
• Seek professional help: There are licensed mental health specialists who are well-equipped for handling nervous breakdowns. At Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching in East Lyme, Connecticut, the team of holistic therapies support anxiety coping tools. As well, the team offers play therapies, art, yoga, music, and creative expressive arts. Book a phone consult to get started with one of our experts who will be able to help you with confidence and clarity.
What if my child or I need help after a panic attack?
Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching offers creative, unique and offer art therapies, yoga, music, play, drama, and outdoor walk and talk sessions.
These holistic therapy alternatives are great for all ages to release anger, and anxiety. Additionally, musical instruments and art help with expressing emotions in ways beyond words. Also, you can always sit on a comfy couch in an office to relax in a more traditional way too. From holistic, creative expressive arts, you can feel stronger and clear your head. Working with a holistic therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut helps you learn about your whole self. What ever is going on for you is okay with us because nervous breakdowns are caused by many factors. Therapy is a safe place to sort though what you want to change and where you want your life to go.
Overall, working with a holistic therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut can help you feel confident dealing with stressors of life.
You can feel confident setting boundaries and soothing yourself because we are LGBTQIA+ affirming and transgender educated therapists too. You get a space place to explore LGBTQIA, gender questioning feelings, queer feelings, and your sexuality.
Also, you and your child can build a self-care toolbox through holistic skills.
At Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching in East Lyme, Connecticut, you get a holistic experience to talk about your whole self, your mind, body, and spirit for lifelong wellness. Our team of therapists help children who have selective mutism and don’t want to talk too. Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching is known for offering creative options as part of your therapy.
To begin, click the button below to connect with a holistic, expressive arts therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut to overcome nervous breakdowns and build playful confidence.
How can art therapies help after a panic attack or nervous breakdown?
We have an art closet with materials to choose from for expressing emotions beyond words. Using clay helps release intense feelings, lowers anxiety, promotes creativity, and teaches resilience. For instance, you can draw with glitter gel pens, paint, or do a tie dye shirt. Additionally, you can make a bracelet, do beading, or a craft. When experiencing depression, creating art provides hope.
Talking about anxiety may only go so far.
So, doing art and painting about what anxiety feels like can provide freedom in expression expression. You can paint or draw while talking or if you don’t want to talk at all, and need silence, our therapists can help you communicate without words. The art is up to the client. For instance, one of our therapist is making a fairy house with her client, another is making figures with clay, and another therapist is making vision boards.
To begin, click the button below to connect with a holistic, expressive arts therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut to overcome nervous breakdowns and build playful confidence.
Musical Instruments Provide Playfulness For Expressing Anger and Fear
In each office, we have a variety of instruments to choose from to provide a language beyond words. Your therapist may offer you music to help you unload or access, or you can reach for an instrument and play creatively. We have wooden and steel tongue drums, mahogany djembes, clappers, metal triangle, shakers, and a guitar because these support emotional expression through the power of sound.
Working with a holistic therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut
Well, you may ask, “How does music work in therapy?” A music or creative therapist may as a child play what worry sounds like, or mirror a sound back. Often, children can’t talk the way an adult may be able to. Furth, even adults stumble over words at times too. You may freeze up when you get nervous or anxious, so musical instruments can help with communication. With your holistic therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut, you can use musical instruments to “talk” it out.
Why use sounds and expressive arts in holistic counseling in East Lyme, Connecticut?
Sounds are so powerful for releasing anxiety and stress, while building trust. Sometimes, anxiety makes a child not walk to talk at all. So, having to talk in therapy would only cause more stress and nervousness. To release feelings like anxiety, anger, and loss through music, your therapist may invite you to play a singing bowl. Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching offers options beyond talk therapy and alternatives to words. Lastly, singing bowls, guitars, and musical instruments in therapy can help clear energetic centers while helping you feel powerful, strong, and confident.
Walk and Talk Nature Therapies in East Lyme, Connecticut
Maybe, you sit all day and you want an outdoor walk-and-talk session by the beach, smelling the salty air, and some movement, by the Niantic Bay Boardwalk. For instance, you can walk to the park or to the beach with your therapist to move anxiety and relieve depression. Walking therapy supports lifelong coping tools for mental wellness and self-care. You and your therapist meet at the office and go along the walking loop, ending back at the office. For instance, you can pick a destination as one of our therapists walks with clients to the local record shop. Lastly, you can also go to the Book Barn with your therapist.
To begin, click the button below to connect with a holistic, expressive arts therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut to overcome nervous breakdowns and build playful confidence.
Drama Therapies For Anxiety Therapy and Coping Strategies
Now, have you enjoyed drama club, musical theater, or storytelling? In drama therapy, your holistic therapist may use short skits, acting, and laughter to help you step out of a survival mindset and into a playful mindset. More so, children and adults tend to get stuck in fear cycles of thinking after trauma. As adults, we get stuck in routine patterns and what we call survival mind. So, you can role play friendship scenarios. Drama therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut helps build your adventure mindset that you may have often left behind in childhood because it is great for learning to live fully in the moment. For instance, if you are worried, drama therapy can promote positive life changes by playfully exploring alternative roles.
Seeking Help From A Holistic Therapist Today
Nervous breakdowns can happen to young child as young as five. Or, they can happen to a 74 year old. No matter your age, counseling can help you feel capable of handling any emotion or feeling. Overall, working with a holistic therapist in East Lyme, Connecticut supports lifelong tools.
Get started by clicking the button below for a phone consultation.
Learning how to recover from a nervous breakdown is important because it is the first step in understanding how to get your life back on track.
From holistic, expressive arts in counseling, you and your child can learn to cope with life stress and live the life that you want. Furthermore, by understanding the symptoms of nervous breakdowns and preparing your coping mechanisms in advance, you are ready to move forward and with confidence. Play, art, yoga, and nature therapies help you truly enjoy life once again.
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