Anxiety Management with Breaking Dawn Therapy

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Understanding Anxiety and How Therapy Helps To Cope

Many people experience low-level anxiety without realizing it. However, it is a potentially serious mental health condition that can affect your day-to-day life.

If anxious thoughts and worries are making it difficult to enjoy life, you don’t have to deal with it alone. The team of mental health professionals at Breaking Dawn Therapy can help you identify, understand, and manage your anxiety.

Without acknowledging and treating your anxiety, you might find yourself avoiding opportunities or experiences that could improve your enjoyment of life. Therapy empowers you to live a full and productive life, no matter your level of anxiety.

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The Many Faces of Anxiety — Symptoms and Effects

Anxiety can present in many different ways, depending on your circumstances and how severe your condition is. The most common signs of anxiety include:

Shortness of breath, especially when confronted with the focus of your anxiety
Heart palpitations or the feeling of your heart beating out of your chest
Chest pain, pressure, or tightening
Excessive sweating, regardless of temperature
Trembling or shaking
Obsessively thinking or ruminating about the object of your anxiety
Muscle tension or stiffness, especially from clenching the affected area
Fatigue or weakness

Most people experience short periods of anxiety throughout their life. However, living with chronic anxiety and panic attacks can prevent you from focusing on important aspects of your life and can even lead to heart attacks or stroke.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy — A Proven Approach for Anxiety

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a popular and effective method for treating and managing chronic anxiety. CBT has a high rate of success after one to six months of treatment and another six to 12 months of follow-up. Some people experience success after only a few sessions of therapy.

What happens during CBT? First, your therapist will ask you questions to learn about your anxiety. They’ll determine what triggers your anxiety and how you currently deal with it, then identify any obstacles to your improvement.

Your therapist will teach you relaxation techniques, stress management strategies, and coping mechanisms. By learning to identify your emotions, redirect anxious thoughts, avoid triggers, and engage in healthy behaviors, you can mitigate the effect anxiety has on your life.

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The Various Therapeutic Approaches for Managing Anxiety

While CBT is the most popular and arguably most effective therapeutic treatment for anxiety disorders, it doesn’t work for everyone. Your therapist may use or add the following alternatives:

Exposure therapy effectively treats phobias and PTSD by teaching you to relax while helping you confront what makes you anxious.
Dialectical behavioral therapy is a form of CBT that specifically focuses on helping you identify and achieve a perspective opposite that of your anxiety.
Acceptance and commitment therapy helps you accept your anxiety and commit to moving through it to achieve your goals.
Psychoanalytic therapy is a Freudian model that helps you identify and resolve unconscious conflicts that serve as the basis of anxiety.

Combining these methods for personalized treatment can help you overcome your condition.

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The Importance of Seeking Help — Recognizing and Managing Anxiety

Managing anxiety can feel overwhelming, and many people with anxiety spend a lot of time just avoiding their feelings. Therapists call this the cycle of avoidance, and all it does is cause the anxiety to build up until it produces severe consequences.

However, with so many therapists and therapeutic approaches available, you never have to conquer your anxiety alone. Because therapy builds a relationship with a mental health professional, it gives you a trusted and effective partner in dealing with your life’s challenges.

Therapy grants benefits beyond just managing your anxiety. Because it helps you improve your emotional well-being, it empowers you to live a healthier and more productive life. This means people without anxiety also benefit from therapy.

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Breaking Dawn Therapy — Your Partner in Managing Anxiety

At Breaking Dawn Therapy, we empower you to overcome your anxiety by partnering with our highly trained mental health professionals. Whether you’re looking for Michigan online therapy or want in-person meetings, we are eager to help.

We use CBT, mindfulness techniques, and other therapeutic approaches to forge a new path to happiness.

Don’t let anxiety rob you of a fulfilling life when we make finding help easy. To book an appointment, call 734-457-1253 or schedule online.