Tag: anxious thoughts
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Understanding Anxiety’s Impact on Daily Life
Anyone who had experiences living with anxiety issues would be able to testify that anxiety and fear driven coping behaviours could make lives more difficult than it already is. In psychology, we call these the “unintended consequences” of fight-or-flight coping when our decision making process is dominated by the threat system. Excessive checking in response…
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Understanding Anxiety Through Compassion Focused Therapy
From a Compassion Focused Therapy perspective, our anxious self is part of the threat system functioning that strive to protect us from physical and social threat. It is most often triggered by unknown, uncertainties or reminders of negative past experiences. Sometimes, people struggling with anxiety might ruminate about events or become paralyzed with worries that…
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Overcoming Anxious Thoughts: Strategies for Personal Growth
Anxious feelings could come in the form of an inner voice that keeps raising questions, highlighting dangers in the situation or making negative predictions no matter what we do. This pessimistic inner voice usually focuses on safety from physical and social threat. Physical threat is not limited to life and death issues like accident or…
Compassionate Living Psychology 