If you have a recurrent fear, anxiety or a phobia it may, at first, be difficult to believe that there might be a way of overcoming it.
It's likely that the level of anxiety you experience, at the very thought of facing what you fear, makes the anxiety seem more powerful than you are. Some of the most common things that make people anxious are: heights; flying; speaking in front of an audience; the dark; spiders; snakes; rejection; confined spaces; failure; judgement; panic... There are many more.
Almost inevitably, because you do everything you can to avoid the feared situation, it is the thought of it, rather than the actual situation itself, that triggers the anxiety.
Thankfully, although they may not know it, people can influence the way their thought processes work.
The experience of others has shown that it is possible to change behaviour even as extreme as a phobia - it's possible to move from feeling 'terror' to feeling indifferent or neutral. My job as a brief therapist is to guide you gently though processes that can help disconnect the fear or anxiety reaction from the thoughts that have triggered them in the past. Frequently, this happens in a way that clients find surprisingly easy and rapid. |
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