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      <image:title>Blog - Overcoming Anxiety: How Therapy Can Help</image:title>
      <image:caption>What exactly is anxiety, anyway? Most people experience mild anxiety at some point in their lives.  In fact, anxiety within limits is essential to functioning.  Anxiety is nature’s way of keeping us safe - and alive.  Humans and other mammals have complex nervous systems that are designed to be vigilant for danger.  When a threat is detected, the equivalent of a smoke detector in our brains gets activated, signaling our bodies to either fight or flee. These biological systems came about millenia ago when humans were threatened by deadly predators.  Even though we no longer face this sort of threat, our brains continue to scan for danger - and often misinterpret things as being more dangerous than they are. For example, our brains might react to something such as public speaking or a major exam as threatening to our well-being.  The “fight or flight” response gets triggered, causing a host of physiological reactions, such as elevated heart rate, sweating, etc.  It’s important to note that this happens completely outside of our conscious awareness.  We do not make this evaluation consciously; that sort of processing would take far too long to ensure our survival. In many ways, this process of scanning for and reacting to danger continues to be crucial.  It is what accounts for slamming on the breaks when a car swerves into our lane, to give just one example.  And mild anxiety can even be motivating.  Just think: if we never got anxious before a test, we might not be motivated to study.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When anxiety becomes a problem Although we all need a basic level of anxiety to function in the world, there is a threshold beyond which it hinders us more than it helps.  Generally speaking, this is when our nervous systems perceive danger in places (or in people) that are not truly threats.  That is not to say that fear of things like social situations or a job interview should be dismissed outright; it means that they are not the life and death situations our brains are registering them as.   When we begin to over perceive danger, it can get in the way of our daily living.  When we’re always on the lookout for something that can go wrong, there can be a tendency to avoid the people, places, or situations that feel particularly risky.  This can interfere with school, jobs, relationships - and cause one’s life to become smaller and smaller.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Social Anxiety Disorder This disorder refers to intense anxiety around social situations and interpersonal interactions.  People with this disorder believe that they are frequently being scrutinized or judged.  Situations in which they feel exposed, such as meeting new people, public speaking, or job interviews, can be particularly anxiety producing.  They fear embarrassment or rejection, which often leads to an avoidance of uncomfortable situations. Specific Phobias Phobias, unlike Generalized Anxiety or Panic Disorder, have very specific triggers.  With these, the individual experiences intense fear of a certain activity, situation, or object.  Common phobias include fear of flying, fear of heights, or fear of dogs.  Phobias can lead people to go to great lengths to avoid what they fear - e.g., taking a cross country train rather than a flight.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Holistic Approach to Anxiety Of the many kinds of therapy, CBT is the one that has been the most researched.  This is because, in part, it follows a straightforward protocol that makes it ideal for research studies.  The same treatment can be replicated over and over with little variation.  Other modalities tend to be less studied because they tend to be tailored to the individual client, creating many variables that can be impossible to control.   Given the challenges in comparing the different types of therapy, we can’t truly know which modality is most effective for treating anxiety.  CBT undoubtedly offers valuable tools and has helped many people.  However, I would argue that this does not mean that it is without its limitations - or that other kinds of therapy are not also effective.  In my experience, there are other elements important to effective anxiety treatment which CBT alone may not necessarily incorporate.  These include:</image:caption>
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