Don.t.Let.Your.Anxiety.Run.Your.Life
70 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life exploring how avoidance behaviors can sometimes exacer- bate your anxiety. We will then revi ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 71 What Is Avoidance? One surprisingly simple way to overcome your anxiety is to consider your charac ...
72 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life Let’s say you’re taking a class that meets for a lecture every day. In terms of your own anx ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 73 front of your peers because you imagined it would be unpleasant, that’s anxious avoidance! It’s an ...
74 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life Engaging in maladaptive coping behaviors (such as excessive alcohol or drug use) Anxious a ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 75 to confirm their findings. In the second study, results gener- ally stayed the same, but there was ...
76 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life reality. Initially when the fear is present, children attempt to outright avoid the dark by ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 77 to salivate when they heard a tuning fork (or, potentially, were exposed to any stimulus of his ch ...
78 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life Practice Think of some automatic reactions or ref lexive responses you have to your daily en ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 79 way. Dogs will do almost anything for a tasty treat and can easily be trained to behave in complex ...
80 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life people or the conditions of your environment) of reinforce- ment and punishment. The positiv ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 81 b. Mae has social anxiety, but she rewards herself for talking to at least two people who are new ...
82 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life b. Every time Andrew obsesses about being con- taminated by germs after using a public rest- ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 83 First, positive reinforcement can help you gradually con- front your fears. This entails using rew ...
84 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life logical processes, or the physical symptoms that accompany an emotion. Try, if you will, to ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 85 a summer barbecue with your friends and you suddenly have a panic attack, confronting your anxious ...
86 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life threat to your survival. In many cases, your nervous system reinforces your tendency to avoi ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 87 Optimizing Your A nx iety A well- known principle in psychology, especially to those of us who tre ...
88 Don’t Let A nxiety Run Your Life performance. For example, you might need more physiolog- ical and mental arousal to perform ...
Confronting Your A nx iety 89 yourself to your fears. Exposure, in many ways, is the exact opposite of anxious avoidance. Exposu ...
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