Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will make you nervous. Well, if you let them anyway. If you tell yourself the wrong things about anxiety symptoms over and over they tend to get more tenacious. This makes the words you choose to describe your anxiety symptoms super important. That's exactly what happened to me. When I first encountered anxiety symptoms I didn't know what they were so I ended up associating threatening words with the symptoms I was experiencing. This was a horrible mistake that a lot of rookie neurotics
How to Create a Positive Mindset in 3 Easy Steps
Most people have cognitive 'blind spots.' Simply put, it's hard to see our own thinking flaws and all the ways we keep ourselves anxious without someone else pointing it out. It's normal. As a therapist (Intern) I see it all the time. Someone mulls over a particular thought pattern or behavior that they've never examined before and bingo! They say something like "I never thought of it that way." It doesn't happen as often as I would like, but it does happen. Here's a question though: Is there a way to do this on yourself? Is there a
How To Know When You Need a Therapist
During our daily struggle with post traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, or any other anxiety disorder, we tend to think that just getting by is enough. We figure that as long as things don't get too out of control that we can just get over it. But how do you know when enough is enough? How do you know when it's time to see a therapist? This is an important question to ask yourself. Because even with all the knowledge and good intention in the world the truth is sometimes you still need help. You may have relied on a good friend