You have to be especially and sometimes painfully honest with yourself if you truly want to feel in control of your life and master real control of your anxieties. Whether in the form of panic attacks, obsessive thoughts or other physical manifestations of anxiety and stress, you have to get a true handle on why this is happening to you, not just treat the symptoms.
Clients I work with are usually just normal people who are experiencing symptoms of anxiety because they are feeling overwhelmed in some important aspect of their lives or feel in conflict, often over their dealing, or lack of dealing with certain difficult people in their lives.
The symptoms themselves tend to cause a person to feel a sense of being out of control, and thereby distract the client from looking at the true source, the reason they are having symptoms. This is where the personal soul-searching and down in the gut honesty with oneself is critical. So often, the source issue that is adding to one’s sense of being overwhelmed truly is something or someone we are avoiding, not wanting to see or deal with. You cannot truly avoid without consequences, unless maybe one has no conscience. YOU KNOW at some level that you are avoiding, and that triggers even more stress, that feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Take a few minutes to assess the potential sources for your anxiety, especially that persistent anxiousness.
Gene Benedetto, Psychologist
Blog: www.RuledByFear.com
And parenting since mothers discovered the internet and cell
phones, as it seems so easy to snap out due to stress and fatigue.
In reality, my son was a senior in high school, came to school with a less than perfect
appearance.