Anxiety – How We Can Help
- Do you suffer from Anxiety Attacks or constant High Anxiety?
Do you know that working on your anxiety issues with a Professional Counselor is one of the best ways to help you get to the other side of most anxieties?
Handling a state of anxiety by yourself is like using a teaspoon to move the ocean! It’s too overwhelming to do alone.
When you avoid getting help because you are afraid of looking under your anxiety you’re not being good to yourself!
Mental Health Professionals are trained to identify anxiety and provide interventions. When you select a therapist, know what their professional credentials are. They should have at least a Master’s Degree and a professional credential to go with it, as well as experience with treating anxiety.
At Sawayer Logistics (sawayer.com) you will be assisted by a seasoned Masters Level, Texas Licensed Professional Counselor, with years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety using non-medical treatment modalities. If your situation would be helped with medications as well, I will work with you physician in a treatment team approach, if you provide a signed release of information. Email me at sawayerlogistics@sawayer.com or by calling 833-729-2937 today!
Just what qualifies as anxiety anyway? View the informative video below.
Are you wondering if you or someone you care about is experiencing an anxiety disorder? Click the link below and take the short anxiety quiz.
https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/anxiety-quiz/
If you don’t want to take medications to manage your anxiety watch the video below to get 24 ideas that might help!
Do you know the types of life events that can make you more vulnerable to anxiety?
As my friend Dr. B likes to say, “Life is Messy.” In that messiness we can become vulnerable to anxiety. The truth of the matter is this- to be alive, is to experience anxiety! Some degree of anxiety is not only normal, in certain situations it is desirable because it sharpens our awareness of our surroundings and alerts us to “real” and present dangers. The problem arises when anxiety becomes a constant emotional state without any basis in present reality or future plans. When this happens, life becomes unhappy, stressful and your energy is drained.
Anxiety exists because as humans, we have the ability to “project” or “conjecture” about future events that have not occurred. In the normal phases of making life plans we can insure that we have reasonable contingencies and then, at some point stop and become open to the possibility that things can go wrong. Because of this, we need to work at developing personal skills for growing our confidence and courage to face life’s uncertainties that are sure to arise. Anxiety is often the result of running hundreds of “what if” scenarios and over thinking things negatively with imagined bad outcomes.
Getting support to become more courageous and confident in facing life can be accomplished by little activities, supported by your counselor. Specific strategies include challenging the underlying assumptions in your thinking, re-framing your thoughts, writing in a journal, take a Yoga class, listen to relaxing music, take a dance exercise class, practicing mindfulness and always asking other trusted friends for their input on any planning that you are doing.
If you are suffering from a more serious chronic anxiety state, all of the above can help, but there is very likely a benefit to considering seeing your physician for some anti-anxiety medications. Can there be side effects? Yes, sometimes, its trial and error before the right medications at the right doses is achieved.
The experience of anxiety, is the experience of vulnerability to the uncontrollable realities in life, so lets get you back to being courageous, confident and proud!