Additional information treatment process

Depression

If you have been feeling down for a while and have lost energy or interest in activities that you normally find enjoyable, you may be suffering from depression. You may feel insecure, indecisive or worried a lot. Depression is different from a gloomy mood. Depression can have various causes, but it can also arise just like that. Depression can be a response to a loss or major life event.

Treatment interventions

Negative thoughts and having little energy play a major role in depressive symptoms. You dread everything and may tend to do less and less. This makes you increasingly gloomy. You can break this negative spiral by taking action, by going out. Because you do things again, you have pleasant experiences again. This can improve your mood. Within our practice, a treatment consists of a combination of activation and cognitive behavioral therapy. This is aimed at adjusting negative thoughts and training other positive thoughts. In addition, attention is paid to your daily schedule. Because depression can come back, you learn to recognize signals and make a relapse prevention plan together with your practitioner.

Within the treatment process, it will be examined which method best suits you and your situation. Mail contact, telephone contact, questionnaires and online modules (e-health) can be used in addition to the treatment conversations. In consultation with you, we can prepare various modules for you via our electronic patient file, such as diaries, education modules and questionnaires.

Fear

Fear is a feeling or emotion that occurs when there is imminent danger. If you often feel anxious without danger or if your reactions are intense and last longer than usual, you may have an anxiety disorder. People with an anxiety disorder suffer seriously from their fear reactions or are limited by them in daily life. There are different types of fears with different complaints:

• Panic and panic attack
• Generalized anxiety
• Specific phobia
• Social anxiety
• Hypochondria

Treatment interventions

In our practice, the treatment for anxiety and panic complaints consists of cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention. It is important that you understand how your body reacts when you think there is danger. You learn how to deal with these reactions of the body and how to influence them with your thoughts. By looking up the situations that arouse fear in you step by step and examining whether your fearful expectations come true, your ideas about the threat will change. You gain more confidence in yourself again. Exposing yourself to a fear-provoking situation is called exposure. If your fear has taught you new and non-functional behaviour, we will ask you to stop doing so. This is called response prevention. You suppress your tendency to avoid the situation for as long as possible.

Within the treatment process, it will be examined which method best suits you and your situation. Mail contact, telephone contact, questionnaires and online modules (e-health) can be used in addition to the treatment conversations. In consultation with you, we can prepare various modules for you via our electronic patient file, such as diaries, education modules and questionnaires.