Anxiety Therapy In Dubai

While the experience of anxiety is different for everyone, generally anxiety has a physiological and cognitive aspect. Physiological symptoms of anxiety could include shallow breathing, racing heart, butterflies in the stomach, etc. Cognitive symptoms could include painful thoughts and memories, trouble concentrating, overthinking, etc. These could result in difficulty falling asleep. Some could experience a loss of appetite, while others may under-read their hunger cues and experience an increased appetite and thus increased food intake. This is why some may end up eating more than usual when anxious. The food itself may become a mechanism to cope with the anxiety.

Depending on the severity of the anxiety, treatment may involve therapy and medication.

For milder forms of anxiety, Identifying and processing triggers and learning new ways of coping can go a long way in helping manage anxiety. For more severe anxiety, medication can be helpful in curbing the anxiety symptoms, while using therapy to onboard skills.

Anxiety is our body’s natural response to stress, threat, or danger. Anxiety itself is not unhealthy. A healthy dose of anxiety keeps us motivated and allows us to take appropriate action. Healthy anxiety comes and goes. Normally, anxiety persists until the stressor disappears. It is only when we constantly live in a state of anxiety that we feel it all the time and it starts to create distress and interferes with the ability to function that it is seen as a disorder. Long term state of anxiety leads to displacement so when we are safe we still feel anxious and that’s what we help with in therapy.