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  • How to Accept Anxiety

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    This insight can be one of the toughest pills to swallow because it means that there will be times when you get anxious/uncomfortable/nervous when you’d prefer not to. To understand why eliminating anxiety is an imperfect journey, read this article. The key to ensuring you don’t create additional anxiety triggers is to ok the fact that…

  • Personal Construct Psychology – Loaded Terms

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    What is a loaded term? When addressing the root cause of anxiety, you may find that you assume some words or phrases have universal definitions, but they don’t. For example, how you define intelligence may differ from how someone else defines intelligence or how someone in another country defines intelligence. At Clarity we call these…

  • What Does Social Anxiety Feel like

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    From the Anxiety and Depression Association of America: “The defining feature of social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, is intense anxiety or fear of being judged, negatively evaluated, or rejected in a social or performance situation. People with social anxiety disorder may worry about acting or appearing visibly anxious (e.g., blushing, stumbling over words),…

  • What is the Option Method

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    What is the Option Method? The Option Method is a proven questioning technique for eliminating negative emotions created decades ago by a therapist, Bruce Di Marsico; typically done in a 1-on-1 session with a practitioner, the Option Method will help you uncover unconscious beliefs and leave you not only more self-aware but more happier. We define happiness as…

  • How to control anxiety

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    The answer Behind this question is the probable desire to prevent yourself from being triggered when you don’t want to be. Here’s what you have to do: Recognize that you currently have a particular way of thinking and beliefs–a way of being. Because of this current state of beliefs and thinking, there are certain stimuli/triggers…

  • Why anxiety is caused by information in our brains

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    Our brains have the ability to store information. Neuroscience has shown that our brains have the ability to store information. For example, if we’ve never seen a tennis ball, we may be unable to identify one. However, after learning what a tennis ball is, we’ll be able to recognize tennis balls for the rest of…

  • Why Am I So Anxious For No Reason

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    This is a 2 part question: Why you get anxious so much Remember that you don’t experience anxiety until you encounter or think about something that triggers you. If you think someone experiences less anxiety than us, what you’re really saying is they have little to no triggers.  Example One person could have 500 triggers,…

  • Why It Feels Like We Get Anxious for No Reason

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    To be clear, anxious for no reason in this article means you think you’re body is triggering physical anxiety for no reason, reasons you can’t explain, or reasons you aren’t aware of. Recognize that we (humans) get immediately anxious when we’re faced with what we genuinely think is a life-or-death situation. Doesn’t that show that…

  • Why does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) work?

    Why does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) work?

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    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…

  • What is an anxiety trigger?

    What is an anxiety trigger?

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    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…