If it has become a cliché to observe that times change faster and faster, our ability to embrace change seems sometimes limited. Gone are the traditional anchors of community life, the priest or rabbi, the extended family counsel. We must adapt to change more and more during our careers, lives and loves. More and more often as a single parent, more and more often remotely.
Life milestones, puberty, adulthood, menopause, retirement, departure of children from the family coop, normative life alone is bearer of profound, continual change.
Add to this our growing addiction to technology and social media, and you will understand why this family of conditions is one of the most common ones in therapy.
Benefits of Group Therapy.
Adaptive disorders take many shapes and evolve from many different sources. Someone may find a new boss unbearable, another may expatriate and find the solitude in an unfamiliar land depressing and disturbing. Loss and grief are a type of adaptative challenge with its own discrete field of study. Cultural shock and maybe even more poignantly, reverse-cultural shock are well proven types of psychological phenomena that can bring heightened and debilitating stress, anxiety and depression.
Symptoms & Treatments
- Personalised Diagnostic: Adjustment Disorder (AjD), Stressors, existential audit, obsessive self-talk, triggers and functional impairment.
- Symptoms & Indications: Agitation, depression, fatigue, insomnia, low self-esteem, withdrawal, suicidal thoughts, risky & reckless behaviours.
- Resources & Related: PTSD, Trauma, learning difficulties, drugs and substance abuse, identifying maladaptative responses and building coping skills.