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Anxiety, PTSD, OCD etc

Posted by on Oct 31, 2011 in anxiety, How it Helps | 0 comments

Anxiety, PTSD, OCD etc

In the course of our lives all of us have had to learn ways of coping. Everyone encounters challenges and struggles and we may also have had especially difficult experiences of our own. Some of these ways of coping are helpful, and some aren’t. For example, depression is especially associated with endlessly ruminating on our experience in the hope that we will be able to fix it by thinking about it. The result is that we reinforce unhelpful thought patterns and the distressing feelings associated with them. In various ways, that patterns of thinking and acting  that we classify as...

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