Anxiety

Anxiety is a perfectly normal emotion that is often experienced as fear, nervousness, apprehension, or worry, which helps us to assess situations for potential danger or discomfort.

However, it becomes problematic when it is persistent and exceeds your capacity to cope, manifesting in ways that seem out of your control or in your body through physical symptoms. These feelings, when related to an anxiety disorder, have negative behavioral and psychological consequences and are often alarming and confusing to those who suffer from them.

In fact, there are a number of anxiety-related disorders: generalized anxiety, phobias, social anxiety, separation anxiety, agoraphobia, and selective mutism. Having an disorder can be quite isolating, but is actually relatively common, with approximately 40% of American adults reporting experiencing an anxiety disorder in their lifetime*.

Anxiety and depression often co-exist, and symptoms can overlap. If you think that you may be struggling with depressed mood, anxious thoughts, behaviors, or feelings that are related to a depressive or anxiety disorder, Well Psychotherapy can help.​

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