Cognitive, as well as behavior, strategies are helpful in reducing anxiety, fear, and worry. Your thoughts affect your feelings, and so learning to change problematic thoughts can change how you feel.
Jul 12th, 2019
Cognitive, as well as behavior, strategies are helpful in reducing anxiety, fear, and worry. Your thoughts affect your feelings, and so learning to change problematic thoughts can change how you feel.
Face your fears, because if you don’t you may always have them.
Social Anxiety Disorder, also known as Social Phobia, is a mental health disorder where the affected person has fear of, or anxiety about, various social situations.
In CBT, cognitive restructuring is used to help people manage stress and to alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was created based on Cognitive Behavioral Theory, which describes that anxiety and depression develop because of negative, distorted, or irrational thoughts and beliefs.
One of the factors that makes CBT the go-to treatment for disorders like anxiety and depression is that it’s more effective than many other therapies, and even medication used to treat these disorders.
Depression is a feeling of intense sadness, hopelessness, helplessness, and worthlessness that persists for weeks and significantly interferes with day to day functioning.
Anxiety is another word for fear or worry. It is a feeling of uneasiness or distress about some real or perceived threat.
It has been said that depression is distress about the past and anxiety is distress about the future.
How we think about a situation often determines how we feel. For example, if we think something is going to turn out great, we will likely feel confident and optimistic.