Why start going to therapy at the beginning of this year 2021.

The main reasons why you can benefit greatly from starting the new year by going to therapy.

2020 was a different, strange, unexpected year.. A year with a lot of learning, on a personal, family and professional level. A year in which you were forced to live without distractions, 24/7 with yourself and your loved ones.

Faced with this, it is worth to ask yourself if, among the ways to face the new year 2021, it would be good to have psychological support..

Why start a psychotherapy process at the beginning of 2021?

Your economy was affected, to a greater or lesser extent. You made decisions in a context of misinformation and uncertainty. Maybe you or someone in your family had COVID-19, maybe you knew someone who was seriously ill or died from the disease. You did the best you could and survived a 2020 with uncertain prognosis.

Around the 2020 year-end holidays, you reflected and came clean with yourself. Perhaps 2020 was a difficult year in which you didn't pay attention to your emotional health.. You had other priorities. You put it off until later. It's understandable, it's not your fault.

Now you can say that you achieved some stability in this new reality. In principle, the online mode of work, study, shopping and even relationships is no longer a novelty for you. And you can count on the fact that you will live with the covid situation during 2021. In other words, you have some experience and have learned to manage in a highly variable and uncertain environment.

If you identify with one or more of the following scenarios, it's time to prioritize yourself and commit to that early year's resolution without delay.Start a process of psychological therapy! Here are several reasons to keep in mind.

1. Your desires and resolutions for the new year are still throbbing.

In that New Year's Eve toast, you seal an agreement with your Self, based on the idea of feeling better or achieving certain goals. That motivation will fade as the year progresses.. As the days go by, you'll procrastinate again. Now is the time. Your dreams and goals can come true, depending on what you do from now on.

2. You are tired

This year you tried to get ahead without help. You tried different solutions, without achieving the change in your life that you need so much. That tiredness is a powerful motivation to ask for professional help right now.. 2020 gave you the gift of learning: it is always better to do than to go with the flow. Finally you decide to stop waiting for things to get better on their own and seek psychological help to achieve what you want to change or improve.

Psychological therapy can help you solve problems in your daily life (relationships, work, study, life projects, etc.).

3. Going through 2020 left you with a valuable learning of self-knowledge.

This is an excellent starting point to advance in your personal development.You now have a clear idea of what is important to you and what you want to do. Now you are very clear about what is difficult and what comes easily to you. The strengths of your personality and those you would like to work on to improve. What you like and what is definitely not for you. Therapy can help you analyze the different options, move forward in making important decisions, and take action.

4. Anxiety, phobias and depression were the order of the day in the past 2020.

If you have had psychological problems for years, surely during 2020, those symptoms that you got used to living with for years, have increased in frequency and intensity and you have found it difficult to manage them on your own. You know you need to commit to a therapeutic process. Now is the best time to ask for help, before this condition worsens further..

5. Psychological burnout from caring for and supporting others is a reality.

From the stress originated by the COVID-19 contingency at the social level, one or more non-specific or isolated symptoms such as insomnia, eating disorders, anguish, irritability, fear of being with many people or of enclosed spaces, or guilt, among others, are imposed.

These symptoms are present in health personnel and other essential workers. And inside every home, occur in those people who fulfill fixed and central roles of care, administration or provider of the family itself.The triggering situations being one or more of the following:

• Illness with moderate or severe symptoms in yourself or others close to you.
• Loss of loved ones (not being able to see them or say goodbye).
• Preventive physical estrangement from family members.
• Prolonged isolation from frequent places, for prevention of contagion.
• Loss (or fear of loss) of job or family business.
• Suspension of a personal project due to the exclusive care of a sick relative.
• Return to the parental home or postponement of economic independence.

This condition has become socially normalized and is minimized by the person him/herself.. Of the five scenarios, it is the most dangerous, because it is silenced.

If you identify with one or more of the triggers and symptoms, please do not delay the consultation. Let the professional psychologist evaluate the severity of your symptoms and propose the steps to follow.