Introduction
Do you feel that anxiety is hindering your quality of life?
Do you feel that anxiety is severely impacting your ability to function at work, school or in social situations?
Do you feel it is interfering with your relationships with family member and friends?
Do you feel that anxiety is interfering with different aspects of your life and is preventing you from doing things?
Do you want to learn healthy and more effective ways to cope with your anxiety?
Do you want to address the underlying patterns and experiences that produce a more anxiety prone nervous system, a system which feels dysregulated and activated?
If so, then I am here to help.
What Is Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal human reaction to stressful situations. It’s our body’s way of responding to being in danger.
It’s our alarm and survival mechanism. Everyone worries or feels nervous from time to time. But for some those fears and worries are not temporary.
The anxiety can feel constant, overwhelming, and out of proportion and can interfere with your everyday life.
What Are The Symptoms Of Anxiety
Physical symptoms can feel like
- A racing or irregular heartbeat, chest pain
- A dryness of the mouth
- Physical trembling, tingling or numbness in hands and feet
- Sweats and palpitations
- Light-headedness and dizzy
- Butterflies in your stomach
- A tightening of the muscles
- Headaches, nausea, an upset stomach
Thinking and emotional symptoms include.
- Racing thoughts which make it hard to think clearly and rationally.
- Feelings of dread and fear
- Worries about losing control.
- Constant scanning for danger
- Dissociation
- Irritability, mood swings
- A constant feeling that something bad is going to happen.
Behaviours might include.
- Avoiding people and places
- Not going out
Using coping behaviours to get you through challenging situations for example having an escape plan, making excuses to leave early, having a drink, smoking more.
These coping behaviours only help to keep your anxiety going and don’t help make your anxiety any better over time
How Can Therapy Help
Therapy can help you to understand the causes of your anxiety to be able to make the positive changes in our lives.
