Sentences with phrase «avoid feeling anxiety»

The dysfunctional coping modes are developed to avoid feeling anxiety and the associated feelings of vulnerability.

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stage); projection (onto others of the feelings or impulses eliciting anxiety); rationalization (giving oneself and others reasonable excuses for unreasonable behavior); denial (of threatening aspects of reality); introjection (seeking protection by identifying internally with a feared person or idea); reaction formation (denying threatening impulse by going to the other extreme in one's behavior — e.g., denying repressed rage by behaving in super «loving» ways); intellectualizing (avoiding threatening feelings by chronic «head - tripping»).

If, however, you send the message that anxiety is bad, she may avoid doing things that cause her to feel anxious.

Postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress disorder: flashbacks of the trauma with feelings of anxiety and the need to avoid things related to that event.

PPTSD is often caused by a traumatic or frightening childbirth or past trauma, and symptoms may include flashbacks of the trauma with feelings of anxiety and the need to avoid things related to that event.

Childbirth education should be designed to allay the pregnant person's anxiety, not by avoiding mention of potentially troubling labor situations, or minimizing concerns mentioned by the students, but rather by giving realistic portrayals of birth, encouraging expression of feelings, and dealing with them by informing, reframing, desensitizing, and strategizing ways to handle troubling situations.

Unlike, say, dog poop that can be easily washed off a shoe, people have no way to avoid the smell wafting from a giant hog farm — and animal studies suggest that the impact of stressors, which can cause, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, can be modulated by a sense of control over that stressor.

Even though I feel a crushing anxiety whenever the phone rings, or when I cross the street to avoid small talk with a stranger, and even though I'm the one huddled in a corner having a meaningful conversation with someone while everyone else is mingling at a party, I can still confidently give a talk to a room full of students like I've been doing it all my life.

Emotional stress from grief can have many physical consequences like loss of appetite, emotional eating, and tension and anxiety from being on guard all the time — cautiously peeking around every corner in an effort to avoid grief and the feelings that come with it.

Then you can get to constructive dialogue, which allows you to avoid the feeling of powerlessness that can cause anxiety and depression.

Avoiding sex, feeling like it's a minor or inconsequential part of an intimate relationship, experiencing guilt and anxiety:

This is what Parsley Health is prescribing to our patients to avoid election day burnout and curbing the anxiety we are all feeling.

People eat to avoid feelings of loneliness, depression and anxiety.

My main problems were anxiety (partly as a result of anxiety over whether I should be gluten free or not as I feel it restricts my life so much and alienates me from the rest of my family — I have a history of eating disorders and in general try to avoid «all or nothing» rules) and feeling tired, cold hands although I always have these in winter and tiredness could be due to busy life, young children etc, and intermittent constipation.

It's considered a social anxiety disorder, which causes people to feel so worried about being judged and embarrassed in social situations that they avoid them altogether.

This feeling of being in control should help you avoid feelings of anxiety towards the dating process.

More than that, try and avoid «menu anxiety,» that moment when you are overwhelmed by the breadth of offerings, as it can create a break in attention between customers that can often feel awkward.»

That's a great question and I think one of the reasons people avoid or put - off a phone call is because they feel anxiety regarding what they should talk about.

Similarly, Margaret Heffernan's very good book Willful Blindness argues we keep quiet «to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety, and to protect prestige.»

The Second Step curriculum emphasizes impulse control (the ability to control and manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, including listening, focusing attention, following directions, using self - talk, being assertive, identifying and understanding feelings, respecting similarities and differences), empathy (conversation skills, joining groups, making friends), anger and emotional management (calming down strong feelings, managing anger, managing accusations, disappointment, anxious and hurt feelings, handling put downs, managing test anxiety, resisting revenge, and avoiding jumping to conclusions), and problem - solving (playing fairly, taking responsibility, solving classroom problems, solving peer exclusion problems, handling name calling, dealing with peer pressure, dealing with gossip, seeking help when you need it).

Haig's (The Humans) 439 - year - old protagonist was inspired by the author's own battle with depression and anxiety, as Tom's days feel unending, and he must live reclusively and move every eight years to avoid suspicion.

Feeling unsteady and insecure in the tub can be a source of bath time anxiety, causing your pup to avoid the tub altogether.

In seeking to explain why so few women gain the success as artists afforded their male peers, Thatcher concentrates on the restrictive pressures facing women: «Women... express anxiety at the prospect of having children, feeling that they must avoid visible obstacles to their career progression in a world in which one must appear continually available for residencies, commissions or even just networking.»

You can combat this through roughhousing, as it releases stress and anxiety, helping kids avoid an utter meltdown from overwhelming feelings.

If a desire discrepancy can not be resolved, then both partners feel continuously hurt, become anxious in the relationship, and with this relational anxiety avoid both their partner and their own sexuality.

However if a person can not shake unwarranted worries, or if the feelings are jarring to the point of avoiding everyday activities, he or she most likely has an anxiety disorder.

The Second Step curriculum emphasizes impulse control (the ability to control and manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, including listening, focusing attention, following directions, using self - talk, being assertive, identifying and understanding feelings, respecting similarities and differences), empathy (conversation skills, joining groups, making friends), anger and emotional management (calming down strong feelings, managing anger, managing accusations, disappointment, anxious and hurt feelings, handling put downs, managing test anxiety, resisting revenge, and avoiding jumping to conclusions), and problem - solving (playing fairly, taking responsibility, solving classroom problems, solving peer exclusion problems, handling name calling, dealing with peer pressure, dealing with gossip, seeking help when you need it).

Admitting being somewhat mystified by it, Freud suggests that the goal of obsessional neurosis is to ultimately prevent conscious awareness of unacceptable thoughts related to the past in a futile attempt to avoid or mitigate feelings of anxiety.

Once you know what sparks your anxiety symptoms, you can either avoid those scenarios entirely or find ways to cope with them (Example: declutter a small office cubicle to make it feel more spacious).

This may look like someone using sex or love to reduce stressful experiences in his / her life, or to avoid unpleasant feelings (loneliness, anxiety, and depression).

ACT recognizes that your efforts (conscious or not) to avoid painful feelings - fear, sadness, anxiety, disgust - create suffering and put distance between where YOU ARE and where YOU would like to BE.