Anxiety
Persistent worry can erode your happiness and sense of peace.
Your mind focuses on your worst fears, cycling through your thoughts in an endless parade. Anxiety can even hurt physically, causing burning sensations, nausea, chest pains, and headaches. It can make your heart race, hands and feet tingle, skin sweat, and even create sensations of choking or of having a heart attack. Such symptoms can be embarrassing and humiliating, preventing you from participating in even the most valued parts of your life. The worst part is that anxiety can make your feel like your are losing control, and that the suffering will never end.
The causes of anxiety can be as varied as its symptoms. For some people, the causes are clear, such as being afraid of spiders or of flying in airplanes. For others, anxiety is more nebulous and pervasive, such as a general fear of social interactions. Those who are recovering from traumatic events often experience not only persistent, pervasive anxiety, but also a consistent sense that other people are dangerous. For people with panic disorder, panic attacks can strike out of the blue, convincing sufferers quite suddenly that they are about to die.
Adaptation seeks to provide a safe and confortable environment where you can explore the unique dimensions of your own experience of anxiety, confront your anxieties at your own pace, and ultimately regain control over your life.
Adaptation Can Help You:
• Obtain emotional support to help manage difficult periods of anxiety.
• Confront anxiety and learn how to reduce its intensity.
• Increase your capacity to tolerate distress.
• Explore major life conflicts and make important decisions about them.
• Learn how subtle behaviors designed to reduce anxiety can actually make it worse.
• Reconnect with key values that have been lost or given up due to anxiety.
• Identify and cope with thoughts that trigger feelings of anxiety.
• Learn to deal with difficult people, set boundaries, and say no to unreasonable demands.
• Set goals effectively, and increase opportunities for success.
• Make healthy lifestyle changes that can insulate against anxiety.
