Anxiety affects every aspect of the human experience. I call Anxiety “the guest who wasn’t invited.” Anxiety can feel like a thing with its own thoughts and emotions. It makes me think of those mucus commercials with the cartoon blobs finding fun and laughing at the person’s allergy symptoms while they are sneezing.
In any matter, Anxiety strikes without notice and without seemingly personal consent. It can feel simply “OUT OF CONTROL.” More often than not, individuals come into session with anxious symptoms ranging from being a transient experience to a constant life- long experience. I believe the solution to both experiences can be first addressed with the question: “Is Anxiety your friend or foe?”
I have heard through the words of my clients that Anxiety can be both; which means there is an ability for one to negotiate the terms of where anxiety will sit in the mind. I want to encourage the reader today to engage on one’s terms and start that internal conversation with one’s anxious thoughts. Start questioning it’s usefulness in one’s daily life and at the same time, its unusefulness too. Soon one will hopefully feel a bit more “in control” of the dialogue with this thing called, Anxiety.
