Anxiety Cure in 4 Steps_CBT
If you have been suffering from panic attacks, paranoia, obsessive thought patterns, relentless worries or a debilitating phobia, you are likely experiencing an Anxiety Disorder that requires some sessions of therapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most popular and highly effective forms of anxiety and also depression treatment processes. The primary objective of CBT is that it helps you control your anxiety levels, put an end to bothering thoughts and overcome your fears. Research over the years has proven the efficacy of therapy
to
treat
anxiety
related
disorders. While there are a number of medications and some even prove their
mettle,
Therapy
Cognitive
discloses
Behavioral
inherent
and
underlying causes to the problem and equips you to perceive situations in an improved manner and also develop coping skills for the future.
Steps in Cognitive Behavior Therapy 1. The process of therapy begins with identifying your automatic thoughts every time you are anxious, panicked or frustrated. These thoughts can come out of nowhere and can conquer you before you even think. Even the most irrational of thoughts and feelings can seem very credible and possible during these times. But reality is that they are unreasonable and contribute to DEPRESSION. It is important to identify them and their trend as a first step.
2. The second step is to challenge these default and seemingly rational thoughts that inundate your mind. Challenging these thoughts can be done by checking for alternative thoughts during this situation to help you differentiate between rational and irrational thinking and multiple interpretations of the same situation or incident. Thus, you will begin to realize or identify thinking errors in the automatic thoughts.
3. The next step is to replace automatic thoughts with rational responses. Over a period of time, you will begin to realize that the room for anxiety ridden thoughts is often limited and if you stop over-reacting to situations or people, you can actually stop feeling anxious or
panicky.
Therapists
can
even
perform
personal
experiments on you to show you the ill repercussions that automatic thoughts have on your responses and behavior.
4. Cognitive Behavior Therapy finally reinstates ‘rescue factors’ that actually has the power to make anxiety tolerable and unlikely to occur. Finally, underlying perceptions and assumptions that make you vulnerable are gradually modified.
Above all, these steps require expert intervention from cognitive behavioral therapy centers to not just help you deal with existing problems but also to be better equipped when you encounter similar situations in the future.
The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety is a stress relief center, founded by
Lucinda
Bassett, functioning at Los Angeles in California, since 1983. The center has managed to make a considerable dent in educating and guiding a large cross-section of the population than any other center in the country, with over 1 million Americans relieved of stress, anxiety and depression with Midwest Center's "Attacking Anxiety & Depression" program.
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