Anxiety disorder, hypersensitivity to the perception of stress in daily life, difficulty in tolerating stress, feeling the severity of danger as greater than it is, sudden or excessive reactions, and as a result, often dysfunctional defenses to cope with stress. It is a chronic form of the process of seeking temporary relief by resorting to mechanisms. A person suffering from an anxiety disorder has difficulty coping with problems in many areas of his life. Due to avoidance behaviors and negative reactions, it is inevitable for them to suffer losses in areas such as social life, academic life, family relationships, and business life.
A person suffering from panic disorder should protect himself from places where he thinks he may have a panic attack. While he tends to stay away for personal reasons, he may try to calm his anxiety by not going to these places alone and constantly requesting the support of someone else.
A person with social phobia experiences intense anxiety in environments where he thinks he will be examined by others, and feels embarrassed. In order to avoid embarrassment, although he temporarily feels relieved by avoiding dialogue, close relationships, social environments, and activities that require him to be the focal point, such as making presentations, he restricts his life to a great extent, is dissatisfied with himself because he evaluates himself with very high standards, acts a perfectionist, and acts unfairly by not liking himself. .
A person diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder has a very difficult time coping with ambiguous situations. It is triggered by an impulse, an event, a thought, or a picture that comes to mind within seconds. may experience intense stress by creating disaster scenarios; Moreover, he experiences serious difficulties in many areas of his life.
Anyone diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder is about the need to hoard things, about cleaning or contamination of dirt, about symmetry and order, He may be extremely sensitive to certain issues regarding sexual or religious issues, and it is difficult for him to perform the behaviors he has determined to relieve himself when he is exposed to them due to the comments he makes in certain situations and the meanings he attaches to certain subjects. also feels. If he cannot relax himself and apply the relaxing behaviors in the number or order he has determined, he interprets this as catastrophic and wants to temporarily relieve his anxiety by resorting to relaxation behaviors in order to cope with stress, as he perceives it as a great danger.
All the situations we have given as examples are actually the person's It gains a unique meaning with the interpretation it makes. The common point is that a person sees his own power as too small and the danger as too big in the face of a situation he perceives as a danger. For this reason, he continues his life with the avoidance strategies he determines as the easiest way to combat the situation that increases his anxiety. What is important is that the person can see how, each time, by resorting to the strategies he has developed, he provides temporary relief and reduces his anxiety for a short time, but when he encounters the situation that increases the anxiety again, it causes his anxiety to increase much more each time. It is a vicious circle for a person to increase his/her anxiety the next time he/she engages in avoidance behavior. It is necessary for a person to gain awareness about himself, as long as he continues to live in this vicious circle, it becomes more difficult to get rid of his troubles, and the important thing is to develop strategies to get out of this vicious circle in the right ways, so that the person can take the reins of his life again.
Psychotherapy process enables us to recognize this vicious circle in which we deal with pain and anxiety in wrong ways, to understand its effects, to gain new perspectives in coping with pain by developing alternative and functional ways, and to develop a new system and awareness as we apply it.
There is always hope in situations where we think we will never get out of it, where we feel that no one understands us, and where we believe that nothing will get better. As long as you cannot find alternative strategies, at least give yourself a chance to try to get help from a professional.
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