IFS for Anxiety
If you are suffering from anxiety, you might be affected by one of the following well-known forms of anxiety disorders
Panic Attacks
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Obsessive thoughts
Chronic worry
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Body image problems
Work-related stress
Social anxiety
What is in common between all these forms of suffering is that there is a deep sense that "something is not right and something is wrong with me". You might worry a lot about the future, think about the worst-case scenario all the time, have intrusive thoughts and feel pressure to perform certain behaviour or to avoid certain things.
Here are the articles on anxiety I have written so far
Learn how to begin healing anxiety symptoms with IFS in 3 steps.
IFS helps us understand the stress we feel when we cannot stop being over-productive. This article talks about polarised protective parts and explain how IFS offers a way forward to reduce stress.
Learn how IFS (Internal Family Systems) Therapy can give you the tools to deal with anxiety, procrastination and ambivalence by accessing your “inner system”
OCD creates incredible suffering. Here is what I have discovered after years of work on it.
This is what is means to live away from home during the spread of Corinavirus (Covid-19). The key is to hold on to hope and to care for each other.
We are going through unprecedented times. We have never been so connected to each other. It has never been easier to travel, share and communicate from one point of the globe to another, and this means it has never been easier to spread a virus.
Learn how to face the uncertainty of Brexit. Understand what is causing your anxiety about Brexit.
Somatic Symptom Disorder treatment and features
It is usually difficult to pinpoint what anxiety is about, and this is exactly the point. Anxiety is a state of apprehension about something important that we think is likely to happen.
Following our fast-spinning thoughts does not lead to any improvement of anger and anxiety. If we take an imaginary step outside of ourselves and look at what is happening to us from an outside point of view, we might realise how distressed we are.
When it comes to anxiety, depression, jealousy, anger, discomfort, we seem to forget what these things really are, and we invest all our efforts on eliminating them from our lives…
We, more or less, agree on the fact that, to be healthy, we need to keep our weight under control through diet and exercise.
At times we feel anxious for no particular reason and it is difficult to pinpoint what is going on. Instinctively we want to find out why anxiety happens, but where do we start from?
Many people suffer from anxiety, and to find an anxiety cure we need to look at both the medical and psychological worlds.
Learn what intrusive thoughts are and 3 steps to deal with them from an IFS (Internal Family Systems) perspective