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Anxiety is like all the emotions, helpful when it alerts us that we might have overlooked something but harmful when there is too much of it. Therapy using CBT and ACT can help people get the good out of worry while reducing the bad. We at Quality Counseling of New England explain how much worry is too much and how quality counseling can help you.
Anxiety is designed to tell us there might be something we should check out because there might be something dangerous we need to avoid. When you get an anxious feeling, it makes sense to listen to your body’s request that you assess whether there is a danger you need to attend to. If there is a danger, your anxiety has served you well because it has prepared you to alter your plans and avoid the harm you might have experienced if the anxiety didn’t warn you to keep an eye out for the danger.
If you don’t identify any dangers, your anxiety has simply sent you a message suggesting you assess things and you’ve determined there isn’t anything you want to adjust.
You can take a quick assessment and then continue on with your day. Anxiety is simply a reminder to check for danger when your body thinks you might need the reminder.
When you have taken the steps of assessing risk and making modifications, if needed your anxiety is not needed any more.
But sometimes, worry sets in.
Despite checking for danger and making the changes we think make sense, sometimes the anxiety continues. We have distressing thoughts of being unsafe or at risk. When the worry lingers for hours, days, or weeks, it is too much.
Our counselors at Quality Counseling of New England, have worked with hundreds of clients who have excessive worry and have had success in helping people to reduce the agony worry can cause. Experienced anxiety specialists can help you quickly start feeling relief. Don’t suffer alone. Starting therapy is easier than struggling with hours, days, or months or worry. Contact us to start therapy. We always have immediate openings.
Yes, avoiding what scares you can impair your life and your health. A phobia is a type of fear that makes it really hard to face the thing that scares you. Therapists help clients decrease these fears so they can do the things they have been avoiding.
There are many common phobias.
Many people struggle with the fear of driving, avoiding highways, traffic, multilane roads, or driving altogether. This can limit the places they can go or force them to depend on bus schedules and routes to get where they want to go.
Some people have fears about their health that make it hard to go to the doctors, to have medical tests, to get bloodwork or vaccines. Some people end up much sicker than they would have been if they sought medical care earlier. Left untreated, phobias around medical health can prevent people from getting life saving medical care.
Fear of interacting with others can prevent people from spending time with friends and family and it can lead to bad work outcomes. Actively trying to avoid the judgment of others can lead people to drop out of social engagements, limit how much they let others know them, and prevent others from noticing the good they have to offer. It can be exhausting and it doesn’t even work. People judge others even when they try to avoid being noticed.
Phobias can be reduced or eliminated through therapy with an experienced therapist. At Quality Counseling of New England, we have helped our clients restore their functioning and even gain the ability to do things they had never been able to do before.
We don’t just help you to “get over it,” we help you to eliminate or reduce the phobia, putting you back in charge. Contact us at Quality Counseling of New England LLC.
Social anxiety is a common fear that makes it hard to interact with other people. Therapists like the experts at Quality Counseling of New England, help people enjoy friends and family despite social anxiety. They help people who have tried to deal with their fears by avoiding social situations like crowds or going to new places to use more helpful strategies that don’t have the same drawbacks that avoidance and isolation have.
When people are afraid of something, like being judged, or being uncomfortable around other people, their first instinct is usually to avoid what seems scary. It makes sense to avoid scary things when they might be dangerous. But with social anxiety, people have an excessive amount of fear that prompts them to avoid too many situations that aren’t dangerous. In fact, social anxiety usually leads people to avoid one of the most important things in life, social connection.
People have a need for belonging. When fear of social situations or social judgment keeps people away from others, it increases loneliness. Through conversation and laughter with others we bond and we get proof that other people think we are worthwhile humans. When social anxiety keeps people away from others, it robs them of the opportunity to connect, leaving them to feel more alone or doubtful that anyone but their existing friends will like them.
Through CBT and ACT, two specialities of Quality Counseling of New England, clients learn the difference between the useful anxiety that keeps them from danger and the excessive anxiety that keeps them away from others for no good reason. Clients work with their therapists to carefully retrain their brains to learn the difference and begin increasing their confidence in being around friends and family. They even learn how to connect with new people and try new situations.
Our clients have decreased their fears, made new connections, and had new opportuities that they didn’t know were possible before working on their social anxiety with us.
Contact us today to make an appointment and to decrease the impact social anxiety has on your life.
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