The Importance of Online Anxiety Disorder Support Groups

Let's face it. The journey of recovery from anxiety is a tough, TOUGH road. It doesn’t matter what form anxiety takes for you. It could be driving anxiety, social anxiety, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety, whatever.

I believe all anxiety disorders are pretty much the same when you get down to the core of them.

And all types can be can overcome or lessened by the same two things: changed behavior and the support of other people who’ve been there and done that, people who get it.

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Is Your Fear of Driving Actually HURTING You

Sometimes it’s easy to rationalize living with a fear of driving. There are so many tricks, so many little ways to get around it.

Sometimes these little strategies are useful coping mechanisms, but sometimes they’re just rationalizations that keep you from facing the truth:

Living with an untreated fear of driving might actually be hurting you.

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Choosing a Good Treatment Therapist for Anxiety, Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I shared some tips on how to choose a few “likely prospects” from the huge list of all available anxiety treatment therapists. If you live in a large urban area, there may be thousands of them. Winnowing your choices down to a manageable list is the first step.

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Choosing a Good Anxiety Treatment Therapist - Part 1

The numbers of diagnoses of anxiety disorders has risen sharply in the last decade. As a result, more and more people are turning to professional therapy to help them overcome issues with phobia and anxiety.

There’s a bewildering array of choices when it comes to anxiety treatment options. So how do you know you’re choosing a therapist who’s best for you? I’ll show you how to make your search for a good anxiety treatment therapist easier.

5 Easy Mindfulness Exercises for Driving Anxiety

Mindfulness. It conjures up an image of a monk meditating in a forest, doesn’t it? Many people have an instant negative reaction to this mental picture. It sounds hard, or like it takes lots of training. It sounds like something only hermits do. Or just plain weirdos.

The truth is, mindfulness is incredibly simple and very applicable to everyday life.

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When Positive Thinking Is Not Enough: Try Hypnosis To Overcome a Phobia

There's nothing wrong with thinking positive. However, studies suggest that phobias go deeper than our conscious mind. That's why hypnosis can be such a powerful tool to overcome phobias.

Heal Your Emotional Pain by Taking Action: Why Waiting to "Feel Better" is a Mistake

How many times have you said, “I’ll get a better job after I feel more confident about my experience level”? Or, “I’ll start dating again after I feel better about how I look”? Or how about, “I’ll start driving again when I’m less nervous about all the cars on the road”?

I said all the above many times until I realized my attitude had a huge flaw.

This method of healing emotional pain doesn’t work!