Medication or Counseling?

When people suffer from depression or anxiety, it is often tempting to go tho your medical doctor or a psychiatrist and get pills to help. Yet, many people find that over time, medication doesn't resolve the problems they have with depression, and even causes more, such as overall feeling of numbness and loss of sexual feelings. This is how anti-depressants work - they take the edge of the lows, but also the highs. In the short term, or when there is an actual disease (such as bipolar) these medications can be life-saving. However, many people who come in for counseling tell me that medications haven't worked for them. This comes as no surprise, because there isn't actually anything wrong with them. If you are feeling depressed or anxious due stress in your life, there is no magic pill to heal you -- because you aren't actually sick!  The problem is with your thinking - if you are stressed over money, and suddenly won the lottery, you would be healed. If you are lonely, and  find the love of your life, then you'll feel much better instantly.  The answer lies in your thinking and self-defeating beliefs. To get started with your own healing, recognition of the problem is the first step. Check out the free Self-defeating Beliefs Questionnaire on www.cheercounseling.com home page.