Category: For Anxiety
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A Proven CBT Strategy That Treats The Core Of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder is a disorder of worry. People with generalized anxiety tend to worry excessively about a number of different things: family, relationships, work, school, the future, health – you name it. Because there are so many worries, people start to try to deal with every worry, but it is hard to put out…
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Examples Of SMART Goals For Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder is a fear of negative evaluation – meaning that a person gets anxious in social situation because they worry about what the other person thinks about them. For example, in a presentation, they may fear other people thinking that they are boring, sound stupid, or that they can see them blushing or…
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Examples Of SMART Goals For Panic Disorder
Panic Disorder is a mental health disorder where people struggle with a fear of panic attacks or having symptoms of panic attacks (such as racing heart or sweating). They worry that these symptoms will only get worse or are a sign of something catastrophic – for example, a heart attack or seizure. As a result,…
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Examples Of SMART Goals For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Intro to OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder that – as the name suggests – revolve around obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are intrusive thoughts, images, or urges, and can span a number of different themes. For example, there can be obsessions related to doubt (“did I leave the stove on?”), contamination…
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Examples of SMART Goals For Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder as described as excessive worry about a number of different topics. These worries can span anywhere from big themes – such as family, relationships, the future – all the way down to every day concerns like appointments and whether we will like a new restaurant. Most people have worries, however, folks with…
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Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Safety Behaviours In Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is a fear of negative evaluation. For example, being worried that other people thinking that I’m “stupid, boring, or worthless.” This fear of social situations goes from being just shy to social anxiety disorder when it starts affecting our lives. For example, avoiding an interview that might have landed you a job that…
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How To Know When You Are Experiencing Realistic Anxiety
In therapy (and life), we often talk about anxiety as though it is a bad thing. But anxiety – at least in moderate doses – is very important. Evolutionarily, anxiety keeps us safe. Back in the ancient days, if there were a bear around near our caves, we probably want our anxiety system to kick…
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Different CBT Strategies for Treating Obsessions in OCD
Introduction Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of mental health disorder where a person experiences intrusive thoughts, urges, or images. For example: These obsessive thoughts tend to increase anxiety, which then leads to compulsions that are meant to reduce distress – at least in the short-term. Some common compulsions include: The reason why obsessions lead…
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Therapy Goals for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
People with generalized anxiety disorder tend to worry about a number of different themes in their lives. For example, family, friends, health, the future, being late to appointments – all the way down to what they need to talk about in therapy. This might resonate with you. For example, you might be worried about what…
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SMART Goals For Social Anxiety
What is Social Anxiety? Social anxiety at its core is a fear of negatively evaluation. People with social anxiety are worried that they will do something to embarrass themselves and other people will judge them: “they are stupid”, “they are so boring”, “I can’t believe they did that” are a few worries that people with…
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