Sometimes anxiety and worry can seem to spring out of nowhere. Before you know it, you’re upset and your brain is buzzing with bothersome thoughts.
But your anxiety isn’t that random. “Your anxiety is actually a process,” writes Holly Hazlett-Stevens, Ph.D, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, in her book Women Who Worry Too Much: How to Stop Worry & Anxiety from Ruining Relationships, Work & Fun. “It’s made up of a series of thoughts, feelings, sensations and behaviors.”
The key to better understand your anxiety and worry is to examine all these components individually. Once you know how your anxiety and worry manifest, you can work on reducing them.
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I would like to thank Dr. Hazlett-Stevens for writing this. If we had more psychiatric therapist (An remove the ability to prescribe psych drugs from GP’s) willing to dig into people subconscious and help them work out what is driving, what the root cause of their anxiety instead of just treating symptoms with a pill, we would have far less of the negative affects of that approach in our culture. Maybe even a few less mass shootings. Everything we do is the result of stimulus from our senses which is combined with recall of past stimulus. Every reaction is designed to satisfy our 3 needs. If you are having unwanted reactions to stimulus, find out what chain of events caused this undesirable behavior and learn new ones.
“Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”. – Smashing Punkins via B.F. Skinner.