What is ANXIETY

The first part of anxiety disorders that i want to talk about - generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in short. GAD is an excessive anxiety and worry occurring more days than not for a period of at least six months. The best way i can think of presenting it is, when i have a patient who suffers from anxiety all they do is worry about what people think of them. And it happens a lot. People who have gad worry so much about everything in their life. Now, many of you talk about suffering from social anxiety and from what i have read in the DSM, social anxiety isn’t actually a diagnosis under the anxiety disorder. It would be called social phobia. And, they say the essential feature of social phobia is marked as persistent fear of social or preference situation, in which embarrassment may occur. I find this to be most prevalent with my teen patients, and my young patients. Because we're in social situations a lot, and it can be like we may be in a new high school, and we are already nervous and so then we start to worry about what everybody thinks, and we don’t want to feel embarrassed. Anxiety disorder are three times more likely to go to the doctor, and six times more likely than non - sufferers to be hospitalized for psychiatric aliments. Although anxiety disorder describes a group of illness such as GAD, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias. .

People suffering from anxiety disorder talk about their conditions, they often include these descriptions:

• - Unrealistic or excessive worry
• - Exaggerated stress reactions
• - Sleep disturbance
• - Jitteriness
• - Fatigue
• - Dry mouth
• - Trembling
• - Sweating
• - Racing or pounding heart beat

Anxiety disorder is an umbrella term that causes several different forms of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events, which may affect both physical and psychological health.


Misconceptions about anxiety:
The first myth is that anxiety isn't real illness. Everybody feels anxious sometimes. But feeling anxious is not an anxiety disorder. When we have anxiety disorder, it actually impairs our ability to function in our daily life and that is a real thing.

The second myth is that therapy for anxiety is going to take forever. The fact is that CBT - cognitive behavioral therapy is really effective for anxiety disorder and most people feel improvement in their first couple of therapy sessions.

The third common myth is that medication is all that can help us. Everyone has different experience and will have a different path to recovery.

Fourth myth anxiety disorders are not very common. Millions of people suffer from anxiety disorder ans 1 in 5 will suffer from an anxiety disorder within given year.

Myth five: those who suffer from anxiety disorder just need to avoid stressful situations. First of all its impossible to know when things could potentially get stressful.


What we know as therapist and other mental health professionals is that by avoiding things that could potentially be anxiety - provoking or stressful, actually make the anxiety worse because we're not using any tools to help ourselves. Better deal with it or process it.

We're just feeling more anxious about situations and therefore completely block it out. Also, that when we label ourselves as "fragile" we are unable to manage stressful situation. We actually feel worse about our anxiety disorder and it can take longer to recover.


So i would encourage you to get out, go see a therapist and get some tools, so that you can use them in your regular life and if you feel something is going to be stressful , you know that you have the ability to hit it hard.

Couples face many challenges shaped by culture, finances, gender-role expectations, parenting, and family history. Today, most couples juggle to maintain a work/life balance, through stressful life-events that can fundamentally alter the relationship.

Couples Therapy helps couples of all types recognize their communication styles, patterns of conflict, methods of conflict resolution, and effective and ineffective coping strategies.

Couples counseling is usually brief and solution-focused. It gives couples the time, the structure, and the place to be reflective. It allows couples to think through options before making decisions about rebuilding the relationship, or possibly deciding to go separate ways. In Couples Therapy, counselors remain impartial, giving couples effective skills, practice exercises, and a roadmap to improve the relationship, and manage change.

Individual Therapy for children, adolescents, and adults seeking treatment for childhood abuse, domestic violence, and other related issues.

Counseling is defined as a type of psychology and therapy focused on typical and normal developmental issues as it applies to the human experience. Many people assume that psychology, therapy, and counseling are all the same, and they all have to do with crazy people. That is one of the assumptions I hope to challenge.

Counseling focuses on normal issues that come with development - issues where a simple hand or leg up would resolve the issue before it became a problem. This includes but is not limited to:

• - Career counseling
• - Family counseling
• - Individual counseling
• - Organizational counseling
• - Grief counseling

Other services include :

Counseling / Psychotherapy

Counseling : It takes place for a short period of time and deals with less compless issues

Psychotherapy : It takes place for a longer period of time and deals with more deep rooted issues and psychotherapist's are trained for longer and have got indept knowledge of diagnosis

• - TRAUMA / PTSD / CPTSD Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - MARITAL Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - ADDICTION Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - GENERAL COUNSELING / THERAPY ( DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, ANGER, GUILT, SHAME TO NAME FEW)
• - LGBTQ Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - FAMILY Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - GROUP Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - CAREER GUIDANCE Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - CHILD AND ADOLESCENT Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - PARENT / TEACHER Counseling / Psychotherapy
• - PARENT / CHILD Counseling / Psychotherapy

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