The “anxiety cycle” and how to break free of it …

Everyone will occasionally experience anxiety, but for some people anxiety is a pervasive reality that negatively impacts the daily function of living. Some people find themselves swept away in an ongoing cycle of anxiety that looks like this:

So how can you break free of a cycle of anxiety?

The easy — and true — answer is that you must face your fears rationally. At least, this is the key step to finally being able to break out of being carried away with a persistent cycle of anxiety. Instead of feeding it with irrational and negative thinking, and habits or patterns of cognitive distortions, you’ll have to apply “cognitive restructuring” to challenge your distorted thinking so that you can break free of the cycle.

Anxiety isn’t just a intellectual and emotional (and even spiritual) experience, it also impacts a person physically. So overcoming a cycle of anxiety usually involves a multimodal treatment plan, but central in that treatment plan will be: FACE YOUR FEARS. A competent therapist trained in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is especially skilled to help a person be able to break free from a cycle of anxiety, so if you find yourself caught up in such a cycle, get the professional help you need.

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