ANXIETY

Anxiety takes many forms including specific phobias, and more widely disruptive social anxieties or limitations on mobility due to needing to stay close to a safe "home base." There are also the extensive worry and attempts to control it through the repeated ritual behavior of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the dread of "something awful about to happen" of generalized anxiety disorder. Most sufferers of anxiety, however, can learn skills and attitudes through counseling which help increase coping and decrease the disabling effects of anxiety.

Anxiety Assessment
If you answer "Yes" to 3 or more of the questions below, OR if you have a strong "Yes, that describes me perfectly!" reaction to even one or two questions, you will benefit from counseling for Anxiety.

1. Have you experienced panic attacks in which, within at most 10 minutes, your feelings rose to a peak of fear or discomfort, including physical symptoms, and/or loss of connection with self or reality, and/or fear or dying or losing control?
2. Do you avoid situations from which you believe escape may not be possible (being in a crowd, being in a meeting room where the door is not easily accessible, standing in line, traveling on a plane, bus, or car someone else is driving) or where help may not be available if you have a panic attack?
3. Do you avoid situations that are too far away from a safe "home base" to allow you to feel comfortable, but which most other people can manage?
4. Do you avoid, or feel immediate anxiety when in the presence of, certain specific objects or situations (such as insects, knives, heights, flying, seeing blood) to an extent that the avoidance or anxiety interferes with your life or functioning?
5. Do you avoid or have strong anxiety reactions to social situations in which you feel people may judge you or your performance or in which you fear you may be humiliated or embarrassed?
6. Do you find yourself engaging in behaviors which may seem silly or useless but which you feel driven to do in certain rigid ways in order to quiet worries or keep negative events from happening?
7. Do you often have thoughts, impulses or images that intrude into your awareness and which you cannot suppress, neutralize or ignore?
8. Do you find yourself thinking about the same thing over and over even when you try to stop?
9. Do you feel the need to go back repeatedly and check to see if something was turned off or if something was done?
10. Do you experience excessive worry or anxiety, which you have trouble controlling?

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