When facing a fear is really just another avoidance of fear.
Shyness
Facing your fears: Taking the plunge!
Ultimately, you have to take action if you want to get better. Are you up to the challenge?
Do-Nothing Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
Do-Nothing Therapy (DONT) involves understanding that Anxiety feeds upon your resistance, avoidances, and safety-behaviors.
Anxiety’s Seductive Side
Learning from Charlie Brown’s mistakes. Will you try to kick the ball or will you ignore Lucy’s promises and finally quit playing her game?
Anxiety’s Secret Rules: Are you following them?
Be warned, Anxiety will say anything it has to say in order to get you away from situations that it thinks are dangerous. Anxiety will try to convince you to follow certain “Rules” in order to be safe, but following those rules is what gives Anxiety its power over you.
The Importance of Therapy “Homework” Assignments for Treating Your Anxiety Disorder
Recovery from an anxiety disorder or OCD involves committing yourself to hard and often uncomfortable work in the short term in order to live a more comfortable future. Typically, this means “homework” and lots of it!
Adaptive Thinking
Your anxiety in specific situations is perfectly understandable if you are aware of the thoughts or beliefs that fuel it.
Anxiety’s Thinking Traps
When your fear is directed at things or situations that are not likely to be dangerous (for example, talking to an attractive person at a party, seeing a mouse, or having a scary thought) the adrenalin onslaught is unnecessary and therefore “Anxiety”.
Life is awkward…oh well!
Life is awkward. It’s ok. It’s normal.
Is there an upside to having an anxious temperament?
Let’s face it—some of us are just born with an anxious temperament.