Boxed in by Anxiety

Feeling Stuck?

Sometimes we feel stuck -- boxed in by social anxiety.  This feeling is false and is a trick that anxiety wants your mind to believe, but anxiety makes us feel we don't have options-- that we're hopeless and helpless to act against it.  For many people with anxiety, this feeling can last for years and severely cripples their social, occupational, and personal lives.  This is never based in rational thinking, however, and by learning cognitive methods and strategies (i.e., cognitive therapy) and changing the way we think, we can see how anxiety distorts our mind and our reality.  

Anxiety had me stuck and thoroughly mixed up, believing irrational things about myself that prevented any progress in life.  Why?  Because I believed a lie.  

As I began to see what anxiety had done to my life, I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Cognitive therapy helps get our mind thinking rationally--and pulls it away from the way anxiety warps it.  As Dr. Richards always emphasizes:  You CAN overcome social anxiety.  Cognitive therapy is the first step.