Sometimes when you feel frustrated about your anxiety, you might start comparing yourself to people who don’t appear to have much anxiety…people you consider “normal”. You might see yourself as flawed because of your anxiety problem, and you wonder why it seems so easy for other people to just not worry about things. You wonder…
At some point in therapy, usually during our first session, almost all of my clients ask me this question: “How did I get this anxiety problem? What started it?” With most people, my honest answer is that I don’t know…at least, I don’t know how the anxiety about their particular issue started. I can sometimes…
You’ve probably been through this before: You’re feeling anxious. You’re worrying about something that you know is irrational. You tell yourself to stop thinking about it, but you can’t. Then you get frustrated that you can’t make yourself stop thinking about it. And the cycle continues. You’re not alone. My clients tell me this all…