Counseling For Anxiety

Making Peace With Uncertainty

You worry…. A lot…. About pretty much everything. 

You worry about things that might happen in the future and things that did happen in the past. When you are somewhat calm and stop to think about it, you recognize that you probably overthink a lot of things.

Sometimes your anxiety really helps you prevent problems, and sometimes it may help you feel like you’re ready for just about anything that could go wrong….

But the constant worry mostly just sucks. It drains the fun out of life pretty regularly. You don’t get to enjoy moments with friends or family because you’re thinking about something you said…or what might happen…or what someone else meant by that thing they said a while ago…or….

I get it.

I know what it’s like to live with anxiety.

Anxiety can feel exactly like intuition, as though there’s imminent danger and you just can’t quite put your finger on it yet.

It feels like if you let your guard down, something bad will most certainly happen.

Treating anxiety is not as simple as “take deep breaths” or “don’t worry, be happy.”

But you can learn effective ways to deal with anxiety and loosen its grip on your day-to-day life.

There’s a lot of unhelpful advice out there about how you should be handling your anxiety. People who don’t have chronic (recurring or ongoing) anxiety will make it sound easy:

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“Just exercise.”

“Take some deep breaths.”

“Meditate.”

“Focus on the positive.”

“Find the silver lining.”

“Live in the moment.”

While each of these ideas can be helpful to some degree, it can get frustrating if you try to take some of this advice and expect fast results.

Anxiety can’t be “solved” the way other problems in our lives get solved. So when we try to apply regular problem-solving methods to the problem of anxious thinking, we’re naturally left with:

The original anxiety that was already there…

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…The added anxiety of not being able to solve our own (anxiety) problem.

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Here’s what you need to know about anxiety:

  • People in your daily life have anxiety (the kind that can be diagnosed and treated). Some realize it, some don’t. Very few people actually talk about it. This can leave you feeling alone.

  • There’s plenty you can learn to do to treat anxiety if it’s an ongoing part of your life. Happiness is attainable.

  • I want to help. I know life can be significantly better with proper anxiety treatment.

Check out this blog post about how to handle anxiety in your daily life:

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Note that the anxious and depressing thoughts are very convincing, though — these thoughts can feel as real as actual intuition feels. Unwarranted anxious thoughts can feel exactly the same as life-saving intuition -- that legitimate, instinctive urge you get that tells you to remove yourself from a situation that is actually dangerous.

Unwarranted depressing thoughts may try to convince you that the world is a hellish place, that nobody likes you, that non-depressed people just don’t see the world as realistically as you do. Most of all, depressing thoughts convince you that you’ll always feel this way, that your condition will never improve. And just like anxious thoughts, depressive thoughts feel 100% real -- like there’s no doubt in your mind that this is "the way life is" -- like you’re seeing the ugly truth that other people just refuse to acknowledge.

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