Anxiety is often insidious, persistent, and intrusive. When you continually find yourself obsessing and ruminating about situations and events either past or present, it can become debilitating and paralyzing for many.
Getting the Validation and Support You Need?
As we walk down the road or the aisles of the grocery store, we look at others and assume they are all just fine and free of worry and concern. Many people begin to think they are the only ones struggling with issues and are filled with anxiety. They may feel incapable and deficient because they can’t seem to get rid of their anxiety and stop their mind from racing. Anxiety can become a very isolating and lonely place to be in within your mind. Those who are brave enough to seek help in counseling and therapy find the first core benefit they get from counseling is the validation that they are not crazy or alone in the battle against anxiety. This benefit is typically attained in the very first session. Counselors will reassure you that you are not the only one and that they are here to help you win the war against anxiety.
Nurturing Courage and Gaining Hope
Many people feel they are along for the ride with their anxiety and essentially at the mercy of the anxiety. It may keep them from forming relationships, going out with friends, asking for a raise or promotion, standing up for their rights, speaking their mind, or simply sleeping well at night. Therapists and counselors will provide you with a deep understanding of anxiety, how it evolves, and can take over your life. They say you cannot change what you don’t understand. Your therapists will help you explore the origins of your anxiety, triggers for the anxiety, and ways of thinking that may be fueling and perpetuating your anxiety. As you begin to understand your anxiety and begin to take a stand against your anxiety, you will cultivate a sense of empowerment and courage as you begin to push back against your anxiety. With these bold steps will also come a sense of hopefulness that you can defeat your anxiety and reclaim your life and decide who you want to be and what you want to do.
Mastering Tools to Defeat Anxiety
Skilled counselors do much more than just listen and offer support and encouragement. Your therapist is there to provide you with strategic skills and tools designed to shut down anxious thoughts and systematically change and modify your outlook, perspective, and thinking to reduce and minimize conclusions about yourself, others, and the world that result in anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice for most forms of anxiety. Your counselor or therapist should be able to provide you with materials and strategies to help dismantle anxious thinking and replace it with more reasonable and logical conclusions that leave you feeling much more in control of your life and your mind.
If you are interested in counseling or therapy to help with your depression and anxiety, feel free to contact IPC so you can schedule an appointment with counselor, social workers or psychologists. Please call us now at 763-416-4167, or request an appointment on our website: WWW.IPC-MN.COM so we can sit down with you and complete a thorough assessment and help you develop a plan of action that will work for you. Life is too short to be unhappy. Find the peace of mind you deserve.
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