Anxiety Treatment

Everyone experiences anxiety. Anxiety is a normal and natural part of life. Being late for a flight, meeting your girlfriends parents for the first time, or going to an important job interview all may come with anxiety. Those are normal and expected. When people have severe anxiety, they are experiencing an unusual amount of high anxiety, for unusually long periods of time. And, they can experience those symptoms when they otherwise shouldn’t.

Yes, you absolutely can life a normal life with anxiety, and the key is managing your anxiety so that it is not as strong, frequent, and pervasive of a force in your life. Anxiety is a very fixable condition. With the guidance of a good therapist or medication professional, clients are able to live life without feeling so on-edge and worried.

Like with nearly all mental illness, roughly 10% of some people’s symptoms go away on their own. This means, though, that 90% of people with clinical anxiety continue to suffer without treatment.

Sometimes the symptoms stay at the level of severity they are currently at, but often times those symptoms increase in intensity and duration. What may have been mild anxiety in someone’s 20s, may turn into chronic panic attacks and major anxiety in their 40s. The longer we allow anxiety to control our minds, the more the anxiety molds our minds to be anxious.

There’s no clear age when anxiety peaks, but younger adults tend to report higher anxiety symptoms than older adults or young children. This can be because of a variety of factors including economic instability, parenting young children, hormonal imbalances, relationship issues, and emotional awareness. It is important to understand that waiting for severe anxiety to peak, or pass, is a poor option. Addressing chronic anxiety is recommended as anxiety is highly treatable.

Anxiety does not fully go away, as some anxiety is normal and healthy. Feeling a little anxious on your wedding day, or gearing up for a major performance, or waiting for the results of an important exam are expected and healthy parts of life. Anxiety does have a benefit as it reminds us that something is important, that life is fragile, and that we need to think about how to be our best.

Chronic and severe anxiety absolutely can go away on it’s own, but is much more likely to go away with treatment. In fact, when clients combine therapy with medication management, their likelihood of “curing” chronic severe anxiety increases significantly.