ANXIETY
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What it looks like:
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Vision problems, digestive issues, difficulty swallowing, migraines, tightness in your back or shoulders, grinding your teeth.
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Avoidance - saying "no" to most interactions, which keeps your life small and restricted (this is not the same as introversion, which is not fear-based).
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An intolerance for uncertainty, and thus a preoccupation with all the details you can gather for planning.
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Flight -needing a plan for a way out of any given situation, often controlling as many details as possible.
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Fight - using anger or aggression to confront what feels unsafe.
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What it feels like:
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Chaotic and loud -it may feel like a war going on in your head.
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Insidious in the way you talk to yourself and the amount of vicious hatred you feel toward yourself that feels like death or dread.
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Debilitating in that you can't think clearly, can't speak, can't move, can't make any of it stop.
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Pain in your chest that feels as if you are dying.
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Being trapped in what can be described as a nightmare.
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You aren't your usual self, and it feels as if you've become someone not part of this world -on the outside looking in.
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Alone -you can't talk to anyone about this, no one would understand.
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How therapy can help:
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Your counselor has the ability to accept you as you are, which opens the door to realizing there is nothing so wrong with you that you deserve a life of anxiety.
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A vicious inner critic provoking terrible feelings and thoughts can be disengaged enough to live more peacefully.
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Personal belief structures that condemn you to a life of tediousness and servitude are targeted to undo the suffering behind it.
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It takes skill andperseverance to live a life of chronic anxiety, and those skills will help you move into a life where you have more freedom and choice.
If you're tired of feeling trapped,
I can help you find your way out.
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