Anxiety

Anxiety disorders affect more than 19 million American adults according to the National Institutes of Mental Health. The prevalence is due, in large part, to the fact that anxiety is a normal response to daily stresses. However, everyday anxiety can transform into an anxiety disorder if it becomes habitual, increasingly irrational and intense. Daily living is filled with worrying, overreactions and catastrophic thinking. Helplessness and hopelessness can become consuming.

How do you know you are anxious?

Everyone experiences anxiety differently. Some of us feel more agitated and overreact habitually. Others feel more fatigued and burdened. In fact, fatigue is highly predictive of anxiety and is often correlated with sleeplessness (N.L. Smith, citation award paper presented to the American Psychosomatic Society annual meeting, Psychosomatics abstracts, 1996).

Women are much more vulnerable to anxiety due to their tendency to ruminate and obsess. They develop anxiety at twice the rates of men. Typical symptoms include recurring fears or worries, feeling of impending doom, preoccupation with catastrophic outcomes and restlessness.

We provide counseling for anxiety in the Dallas Fort Worth TX. area and specialize in highly effective therapies for the following anxiety conditions:

• panic attack disorders
• obsessive-compulsive disorders
• generalized anxiety disorder
• performance anxiety
• social anxiety
• specific phobias

By learning effective skills in relaxation, calming and focusing, perspective taking, disputation skills and cognitive and emotional control, you will experience rapid results and your anxiety will decrease.

Don’t wait any longer, call us today and shift your life into gear!