Anxiety is an increasingly common response to our crazy, pressured world.
This article features perspectives from both those experiencing anxiety and professionals.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/71158843/the-rise-of-the-anxiety-disorder
"It was sick hot dread ... one of the most excruciating experiences of my life," author Kerri Sackville wrote of the first of her two full-blown panic attacks. Sackville chronicled her lifelong battle with anxiety in her book, aptly titled "The Little Book of Anxiety". She also wrote: "Your thoughts take over, as you helplessly watch yourself being carried away to places of dread and fear."
In summary, the article emphasises that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is, "way more effective than drugs". This is the perspective of Gavin Andrews, professor of psychiatry at the University of NSW. It can be done in a matter of weeks, and research indicates that recipients tend to "stay well", he says.
In support of this perspective, Kerri Sackville says that for her, therapy has been the only thing that has "touched the sides" of anxiety, helping her, "to understand the genesis of my anxiety on my childhood and in my genes."
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is one of the key models I use to support clients.
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