Anxiety treatment

Do you know or suspect that you need medication to help you manage anxiety or stress? In treatment for anxiety, you can expect effective care based on up-to-date clinical guidelines. In our initial meeting, we will assess what is going on, review your symptoms, and formulate a provisional diagnosis and a plan for treatment. This meeting will be longer than our typical session and gives you enough time to get comfortable with me. Click here to read more about what you can expect in treatment.

Anxiety disorders are some of the most common psychiatric disorders. Anxiety can control your life, or make you miss out on life altogether. Anxiety causes a great deal of suffering and can prevent you from living a happy and meaningful life.

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is a feeling of fear, dread, or uneasiness. This is a normal experience when you are in danger, or if you need to focus on a particular task that is important to do right. It becomes a problem when it persists when there is no danger or task to accomplish. Or when it prevents you from doing the very things that it was meant to help.

Anxiety can present in many situations such as in social environments, in performance situations, or when you are in some type of trouble such as financial or legal distress. For some, anxiety exists all the time no matter the environment, or simply whenever they leave their home or go to a crowded place, or at work or school.

Anxiety can cause you to feel restless and on edge, make you easily exhausted, make it difficult to concentrate or focus, make you irritable, prevent you from sleeping, and even cause you physical pain. Some who experience anxiety as a result of trauma will even develop nightmares, and will persistently re-experience their trauma. Others will develop persistent intrusive thoughts that may lead to repetitive and irrational behaviors.

Anxiety is not who you are!

Anxiety is something that you can overcome. People have been experiencing anxiety since before recorded history, and the treatments for anxiety have evolved through practice and science. We can work together to help you overcome anxiety and start living your life again. Treatment for anxiety may require medication depending on what specific type of anxiety you are suffering from. In addition to medication, treatment may require dietary changes, a study of mindfulness, and learning how to redirect, schedule, or simply postpone your worries.

Emotional Distress

Do you have trouble controlling your emotions? Do you have outbursts of anger, or become overwhelmed by sadness? Do your emotions feel like a roller coaster that you cannot escape from? For many people, emotions can rule their lives and they have no understanding of why they do not have the control that others seem to. Do these unstoppable emotions destroy all of your relationships with friends and partners?

People who have problems with emotional regulation often get treatment from non-specialist medical providers and will end up taking multiple medications that they do not find to be helpful. This is because emotional distress can often look like problems of depression, anxiety, and mania. However, emotional distress does not respond to the treatments for those problems in the same way.

When we meet, we will discuss your emotional distress and place it in the context of up-to-date research. We will discuss others who experience the same problems, and we will discuss your diagnosis.

You Can Take Control!

Even though right now it may feel impossible to get control of your emotions there has been a great deal of research into the topic and in the last 20 years, effective treatments have become available. Medication may help with this treatment depending on your specific diagnosis, but it needs to be carefully considered.

There are 4 prongs of treatment for emotional regulation based on the latest therapies. First, you should learn what your tolerance to distress is, and learn to tolerate distress, second you should learn basic mindfulness and how to exist in the now instead of the past or the future. After you fulfill these goals, you can look at skills to regulate your emotions, and be more effective in interpersonal relationships.

This will often sound like a lot, but with some simple daily practices that can be done in about 15 minutes a day, you can maintain these skills after you have learned them for the rest of your life. This can lead to less daily stress, better relationships, and can help you stay off the emotional roller coaster.

Anxiety treatment

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is not who you are!

Emotional Distress

You Can Take Control!

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