– Nashville Counseling Services for Anxiety

Last Updated on October 7, 2014 by Chris Roberts

NASHVILLE COUNSELING SERVICES FOR ANXIETY

If you are looking for help with your anxiety through Nashville counseling services, then you have come to the right place! Anxiety is one of the most common forms of distress and discomfort for people, and yet it is one of the least treated! Why is this so? To begin with, most people dismiss their own anxiety as simply worry, or perfectionism, or being controlling. If we exhibit one of these common symptoms, we are led to believe we just need to try harder to let go, or give more of our life to God, or think more positively about our life. These are all great interventions, and to a person that isn’t struggling with anxiety, most of these solutions might work! So, by all means, give these suggestions a try first!

But if you are turning to professional Nashville counseling services for your anxiety, then you’ve probably tried all of these ideas already. There are so many people who are willing to give you advice for how to handle your worry or perfectionism. If you have tried all of these tips and you continue to find yourself worrying, its easy to believe you just haven’t tried hard enough. There is something fundamental in all of us that believes we need to take the hard road, or use the blue collar approach, or need to heed the advice of parents or pastors or teacher or friends. It is so very difficult to take the leap of faith and experiment with the notion that you might actually have something deeper than just “worry” or “stress.” It’s hard for many of us to imagine that having anxiety doesn’t mean the end of life, but actually the opposite. If you are willing to consider that you may have anxiety, then it just changes the game for how you approach your worry and fear!

UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY IN NASHVILLE COUNSELING SERVICES

Anxiety attacks us from two fronts. First, it creates an actual physical symptom in our bodies. For some, it is a tightening in the chest. For others, it feels like a knot in their throat. For others, it feels like nausea and upset stomach. Secondly, it sends thought after thought into our brain, and usually these thoughts are dripping with fear and worry and second-guessing. For people who do not consistently experience the symptoms of anxiety, they cannot understand how overwhelming and upsetting it can feel. Everyone will say, “Oh, I know how it feels to worry. I know what you are going through.” What a person who does not consistently feel anxiety does NOT know, is that they do NOT actually know how it feels. Anxiety is a stronger level of worry, a longer lasting uneasiness, and a physical symptom of discomfort that is more acute.

If you are looking for Nashville counseling services for anxiety, Chris Roberts at Two Trees Counseling Nashville would love to be of help. Chris has many years experience in working with individuals dealing with and suffering from anxiety. Anxiety is a frustrating feeling to live with, but it can only be resolved with effective intervention strategies specifically designed to attack anxiety. The age-old adage of “just put it out of your mind and it will go away” does not work for anxiety. In reality, it makes it worse. Anxiety must be seen for what it is and dealt with accordingly.