Anxiety is a feeling that many people experience when dealing with stressful or threatening situations. Anxiety is often called "stress", but an anxiety disorder is associated with more intense feelings of nervousness, and reactions to this nervousness.

 

Some anxiety is normal. Anxiety helps us at times to deal with difficult situations because fear and anxiety alert us to danger. These responses are the result of the body and mind telling us that something is wrong.

 

However, just as these emotions can be helpful, if they become too overwhelming, they can actually keep us from doing the things we need to do in order to help ourselves. In a way, they can become paralyzing unless understood and dealt with in a rational way. There are many different types of anxiety disorders, for example; panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, specific phobias like social phobia and agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

 

Finding the right anxiety counselor for you when you suffer from excessive anxiety or an anxiety disorder is imperative to regaining control in your life. As an anxiety sufferer, you know that day to day life can be extremely difficult because you may not know when anxiety will rear its ugly head. With the onset of persistent anxiety or panic attacks, you may experience many or even all of the following symptoms: back pain, neck pain, fatigue, headaches or migraines, high blood pressure, sleeplessness, insomnia, weight gain or loss, mood swings, chest pains, loss of breath, and overwhelming or paralyzing fear. When you enter into treatment for anxiety, you and your counselor can work together to reduce or diminish these symptoms.

 

An FRCC anxiety counselor can help you deal with the various forms of anxiety and help you regain the much needed sense of control in your daily life whether you suffer from General Anxiety Disorder, specific anxiety, excessive worry, or panic attacks. General Anxiety Disorder is determined in persons who feel anxious about many aspects of life, not anything specifically. A disorder focusing on a specific anxiety means that your anxiety stems from a specific situation or aspect of your life. Excessive worry and panic attacks often come hand in hand - the former may elicit the latter. Regardless of the type of anxiety that affects you, you and your counselor will plan a mode of attack against it.

 

There are various avenues of treatment your counselor may attempt when treating an anxiety sufferer. The most common forms of treatment include, but are not limited to, relaxation techniques, aromatherapy, cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, cognitive-behavior therapy, and massage therapy. For some anxiety sufferers, it can help just to talk about what may cause the anxiety and what feelings occur. Each and every anxiety sufferer is different in the way in which they respond to each type of therapy and one may work better for one person than another.

 

If you are wanting help with anxiety, our counseling center provides individual counseling for anxiety disorders. We also provide counseling support for the wife or partner. There are two ways to setup an appointment with one of our counselors: 1) Fill out the Contact Form and a counselor will call you with 24-hours; 2) Call our offices at 303-933-5800.