Category: anxiety
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Why does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) work?
CBT helps people uncover their anxiety-causing beliefs—the reasons why you think you should be anxious about something—so they can evaluate them and change them but knowing or “using” CBT isn’t enough. You or your mental health supporter(s) must be skilled enough to uncover anxiety-causing beliefs and thinking patterns that are often unconscious. Not everyone is…
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The Anxiety Paradox – How We Uknowingly Make Ourselves Anxious
Research shows that humans use anxiety–often unconsciously–to benefit or protect themselves in some way. For example, you may use anxiety to motivate yourself to do something or prove that you don’t like something. In some cases, what you decide to be anxious about comes from what others say or what you observe others get anxious…
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What is an anxiety trigger?
A trigger = something, that when encountered, we experience a physical anxiety/fight-or-flight response. Triggers can be anything. Example triggers: physical and non-physical objects like thoughts, people, aspects of yourself, emotions, events, memories, words, behaviors, actions, and impulses. We can be triggered by anything For example, we can be triggered by: what we see/hear/taste/touch, physical and…
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What is the unconscious?
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung Aspects of ourselves — like ways of thinking — that exist, but we’re unaware of. For example, someone can have unconscious reasons why they do certain things or think in certain ways. Furthermore, some of…
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How to stop caring what people think
Several sources say, “Don’t care what people think” but that can be easier said than done. This can be especially difficult when the opinion comes from someone with authority or someone who has attributes that you or society deems “successful,” like money, status, looks, etc. At Clarity we call these idealized people or groups. Some people…
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Why Am I Feeling Anxious For No Reason?
We may sometimes say, “I don’t know why I’m anxious, “or I don’t know why I got anxious”, but let’s think about that. You either get anxious for no reason, or get anxious for a reason. You may also think that things make you anxious, but if things have the power to make us (humans)…
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The Root Cause of Negative Emotions
It begins with a radical departure from everything we’ve been taught. Many of us have heard of the popular psychological model of stimulus-response. The dog barks, I get scared. My friend compliments me, I feel happy. This model has helped spawn a culture where we see our emotions and experiences as being caused by people…