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LDS Counselor Carrollton TX: How to Work With Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal reaction to stressful situations. However, as an LDS counselor, I’ve seen how it can become excessive and can cause sufferers to dread everyday situations. This steady, all-over anxiety is called Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Other anxiety-related disorders include panic attacks—severe episodes of anxiety which happen in response to specific triggers—and obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is marked by persistent intrusive thoughts or compulsions to carry out specific behaviors (such as hand-washing). Anxiety so frequently co-occurs with depression that the two are thought to be twin faces of one disorder. Like depression, it strikes twice as many females as males.
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