Anxiety

Is anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try?

These often are symptoms of anxiety:

• Nervousness, restlessness or being tense
• Feelings of danger, panic or dread
• Rapid breathing or hyperventilation
• Increased or heavy sweating
• Trembling or muscle twitching
• Weakness or lethargy
• Difficulty focusing or thinking clearly about anything other than the thing you’re worried about
• Insomnia
• Obsessions about certain ideas (a sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder)
• Fear or uneasiness surrounding a particular life event or experience that has occurred in the past (a sign of post-traumatic stress disorder)

Therapy can help you uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears, learn how to relax, look at situations in a new, less frightening way, and develop better coping mechanisms and problem-solving skills. Medication can often help people get to a place where symptoms are manageable enough to re-engage in the enjoyment of life. For help with anxiety, contact me today.