Coping with Anxiety by Edmund Bourne & Lorna Garano

Author:Edmund Bourne & Lorna Garano
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SEL036000 Self-help / Anxieties & Phobias
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Be prepared to experience stronger emotions. Facing phobic situations you’ve been avoiding for a long time often stirs up suppressed feelings—not only of anxiety but of anger and sorrow as well. Recognize that this is a normal and expected part of the recovery process. Allow these feelings to surface and let yourself express them. Let yourself know that it’s okay to have these feelings even though you may be uncomfortable with them. An important part of recovery from a phobic condition is learning to accept, express, and communicate your feelings.

Follow through to completion. Finishing exposure therapy means that you reach a point where you are no longer afraid of panic attacks in any situation that was formerly a problem (obviously this does not include extreme situations that anyone would be afraid of). The recovery process can generally take as little as a month or up to a year or more to complete. Getting comfortable with most situations but still having one or two that you are afraid of is generally insufficient. To attain lasting freedom from your phobias, it’s important to keep working until you get to the point where (1) you can go into any situation that nonphobic people would regard as safe, and (2) you regard panic reactions themselves as manageable and not at all dangerous.

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