6 Tips To Treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Once upon a time, anxiety was critical for keeping us alive. In today's world, though, it piggybacks on the kind of chronic, low-level threats that leave many in a state of constant anxiety.
People with generalized anxiety disorder feel continually tense and anxious over things that wouldn’t normally bother a person to that extent, and treating a client with generalized anxiety disorder can feel daunting for a therapist.
In this video I'll share with you some simple steps that I find useful when helping people with GAD. I talk about how the portrayal of general 'potential threats' in the news and other media can make us feel anxious (0:52), but if you would prefer to skip to the first tip then this begins at 3:24.
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0:00 Introduction
0:52 How the modern world turned a survival response into a psychiatric disorder
1:57 'Knowing my brain is on high alert doesn't help'
3:25 Step 1 - Find the pattern
4:12 Step 2 - Find the missing needs
6:37 Step 3 - Find the origins of the
8:59 Step 4 - Find the exception times
10:30 Step 5 - Find ways to minimise worry
11:28 Tip 1 to stop worrying - Discover what does actually worry the client
11:34 Tip 2 to stop worrying - Help the client begin to detach from the worry by
11:56 Tip 3 to stop worrying - Examine thinking styles that may be making your client prone to worry
12:15 Step 6 - Relax your client deeply
If anxiety is a survival response, I might live forever!
hahah exactly!
Lol
Yea or until our heart can't take it any longer and stops
It’s difficult isn’t it I fear every social interaction it’s hard to even work I get burnt out socially but due to my social anxiety I always have fear 😒
@@cp2342 I’m sorry to hear that. It must be very difficult for you.
"Life becomes an exercise of endurance, rather than enjoyment" - my life in a nutshell.
Mine too.
Same here
@@jyotiprokash777 just got out the the mental hospital
Mines too
I have anxiety around the clock on waking up and going to sleep all day long bad digestion and weight lost anxiety is just the alarm clock ⏰ rings all day
What my therapist told me to think when I have anxiety. Okay so, think of anxiety as a lady that comes to your house (mind) and hits your door. Most of us we will not open because we are trying to fight those bad thoughts right? I am telling you, open the door. Let the lady come in, the lady in black I say, and be friendly with her. Drink coffer or tea make a scenario in your head. She will start telling you all of the bad things. Respond to her, I know. I fucking know, and it's okay. Make her understand that you don't care anymore. Make her afraid of you. Please try and never ever give up❤
Thank you for giving people hope. Sincerely thank you ❤🙏🏻
Love this
Is this works ?
Thanks :)
Yes! I have been told to welcome anxiety and not fight it as well! Glad to know im not alone and that hopefully one day i can manage my anxiety enough to actually be able to travel!
The 'life becomes a thing of endurance rather than enjoyment' is so spot on I literally felt it sum up everything in my life at the moment.
and this is very common, it's great to realize it within ourselves. Be well
There are a few factors in reducing social anxiety quickly. One resource I found which successfully combines these is Kevs Control Plan (check it out on google) definately the best plan that I have ever seen. Check out all the amazing info .
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I wake up with anxiety every morning and the rest of the day is spent trying to calm that anxiety down. I've learned a lot of strategies along the way but it's still there every morning. It sucks.
spybaz Ahh that’s so hard to deal with from the moment you wake until you sleep .... Hope it gets better soon and you overcome it xxxxx
Hashani Akalanka why do you want WhatsApp? Are you some weirdo that trolls vids for vulnerable people or something. So weird , to comment like this without any convo, asking for WhatsApp.... pewww
Me too it’s horrible.
same
it is horrible indeed!! The thing i hate is that i don't know why!!!I used to be the happiest person ever !!Never sick or anything and now i battle anxiety up to a part that i'm frightened to drive a car or face people at work even tho i am well liked. i have seen doktors but they don't seem to listen or understand!!
I've been told to picture myself in a good place or try to have pleasant thoughts or meditate... jeez don't these dokcors understand that once you have a anxiety attack there is no way to put yourself in a better place 'cause one has enough trouble already to deal with the situation you are in already!! A tree and flowers on a meadow just don't do the trick that easily!!!
For all those who think anxiety is they're own fault don't see it that way!!! I have the almost perfect life !! Great job , no money problems , no future worries no relationship troubles , no family drama yet still those attacks come !! thats why i am furious with doctors who seem to look down on you , thinking a little pill or long walks in the fresh air would help , like one is an idiot !
"The antidote to anxiety is not insight or analysis... it's relaxation". Well said. Talk therapy creates and maintains anxiety.
7:42 spoke to me so much. I was raised in a very strict and stressful way. Where a lot was expected of me. And every little thing was blown out of proportion so now I’m an anxious individual.
Me too. I just found out that my father had a abandonment issues, and my mother has Borderline Personality Disorder. In essence I eas abused. I thought it was normal that my parents were strict. So, now that I'm 54 I have a finally found a therapist I like. The more l learn about my parents issues, not to judge, but to learn why im having issues. I also have ADHD - it can be genetic, and made, low on the autism and OCD. I'm told that BPD mothers really mess up their kids... Good luck, I wish you peace 🌷
Self acceptance, and self love is the way, let go of control, let the love heal our wounds....
Allow nature and our body work for healing, through our soul...
Me too. I find it helpful to let myself off the hook whenever I can
How am i supposed to do that.. i dont know how to accept myself and love myself@@Peanuts76
I've been to several therapists and this man is leagues above them all in terms of knowledge and caring. If healers intend to heal instead of just keeping you coming back they would have a plan such as this man presents. Carefully crafted using all his knowledge of the issues, and indeed a wise knowledge imo. If we had more healers like this man the world would be a better place
I never realized how the controlling and guilty upbringing I had keeps me beating myself up as an adult. It's logical.
Join the clube
I had a SEVERE generalized anxiety disorder and can't believe how it went away. Now I have normal anxiety that's easy to shake off.
At the peak of my GAD, there was absolutely nothing that would help.
I got on medications, which helped to a certain extent. Then I added daily cardio. Then I started doing CBT on my own (all you need is a workbook, no need for an expensive therapist).
Learn how to set boundaries, especially if there is a toxic relationship in your life.
But to be perfectly honest, I think what cured my GAD is just letting time do it's wonders.
Such an uplifting comment! Thank you for sharing!
how do I set boundaries with my father (who doesn't respect my boundaries, physical emotional etc)
How would one go about using/trying hypnosis? Where do you start or find guidance on what to use?
Could u pls share the cbt workbook u used
I have analyzed myself and I was diagnosed with GAD since the 4th grade. I think it stems from emotional needs that we’re unmet. I think you are right.
"The problem with too much rules as a child is it gets hard to live in an ambiguous reality as an adult " .. wow ! 😔
I feel prayer helps: "O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit. Purify my heart. Illumine my powers. I lay all my affairs in Thy hand. Thou art my Guide and my Refuge. I will no longer be sorrowful and grieved; I will be a happy and joyful being. O God! I will no longer be full of anxiety, nor will I let trouble harass me. I will not dwell on the unpleasant things of life. O God! Thou art more friend to me than I am to myself. I dedicate myself to Thee, O Lord." ~ Baha'i Faith Prayer in Part
Amen!
Thank you for this❤️
Amen.
Amen.. please pray for me 🙏 to be free from anxiety and my son
I’ve realized that I’m just anxious in general . Thank you for helping us doc :) good luck everyone
I’m anxious almost 24/7, worrying about everything. I start feeling dizzy immediately after going out in public. Especially in supermarket, malls or restaurant. Sometimes it just goes away but there is times when it’s very very persistent. I found that magnesium helps so I usually always take big amounts.
I've become the same this year due to the lack of social interaction and what's going on in the world. Dizziness non-stop, upon waking to going to sleep. Exercise, meditation and accepting the symptoms as they are tends to help. I hope we both heal soon.
Agoraphobia is tough! It’s an issue with brain chemicals and IMO usually needs medication/therapy to cope with it
@Isaac Eow meds / therapy
TY! Yes, I have so many needs not being met. Living situation, career, traumatic experiences that I haven't processed. Lots of work for me to do.
Your patientes are very lucky to have you as their therapists. I wish I could afford this luxury! Best wishes!
Sometimes, just thinking about the death that I'll end up one day makes me under control the worries and calm down that there is nothing to anxious about...
really? death is one of the things that makes my anxiety spike the most actually so that’s interesting
Yeah I understand that but fuck being like this while alive. I want my love for life to come back and don't want to be like this at all.
For once, an alternative way to think about GAD!! Many thanks. I took notes.
2:11 I quit therapy because the night before, and the morning of, my therapy sessions, were always the worst times of my week with anxiety. For me, it was like having to admit once a week that you're sick and not in control of your life.
I totally know how you feel. I get panic attacks just thinking about my therapy sessions... Before or after those sessions.
Yes. I stop also for that same reason plus they made me worst by gaslighting.
Get a new therapist
@@clairerobinson8166 You don't get it. That's OK.
Get a new therapist. ❤
This dude has references on a youtube video... solid videos thank you!
Sometimes it gets so bad. I feel that I can't do this anymore. I am so tired of surviving. My dream is to feel comfortable and calm inside. Seems simple but it sure is difficult.
Been like that for almost a year, I have no hope anymore. How are you now three years later ?
Went to seek for help and found out I am indeed diagnosed with anxiety disorder. It is truly depressing. To get your day ahead seems very stressful, waking up everyday is putting me into a lot of worries and stress. Even though some of my family members aware of my anxiety they don't seem to fully understand how it works. All I hear from them is 'you have to go to work', if only it was that easy. Even if I wanted to, if the anxiety comes and attack me right then there's nothing I can do about it. The hardest thing for me is to explain what I feel when I'm having this anxious feeling, even after explaining to them, no one actually understands.
Hope you are well
Same here☹️
It's good to actually have some light thrown on what is making me feel the way I do. The anxiety starts within a few minutes of waking early in the morning and continues throughout the day.
great therapeutic insight as usual Mark, missing needs have never heard before very revealing
These videos really are fantastic. As a social worker none of this information is actually new to me but I am finding your videos are really helpful way of refreshing myself and relating this information to the cases I have at current. Thank you very much!
Very well said, very insightful information about Anxiety, I cannot tell parents enough to keep a close eye on their teens, who are going through Anxiety during this pandemic etc…❤️
Brilliant. Thank you. I really like the mind searching for the reason for the feeling of anxiety, which is why even positive events can be a source of great fear and anxiety for the anxious person. Very useful.
Wow, this video has so much value! It's phenomenal!! My goodness, the amount of introspection that this video has caused is a game changer for me. Thank you so much for uploading this.
Thanks for these great tips. I teach relaxation techniques to my clients who are anxious about horse riding. It makes a world of difference. Without so much anxiety, they are able to enjoy riding again.
This is brilliant… Thank you for your work and for sharing it so openly. You have a huge heart and a generous spirit.
Nice one Mr Mark, well done. Thanks & God bless
Hi Mark, love your videos and your voice is very soothing! I have been suffering with GAD after a hearing issue frightened me and now I worry about all the “what ifs” about my health. I know deep down I have the solution but now must follow through to calm and ease my troubled mind and stop unnecessary future anxious thoughts. Keep up the wonderful videos! Cheers from B.C. Canada!
Yes makes sense thank you!! I'm having all kinds of fears about my little girl's safety and it's all coming from her daddy passing away two years ago and me not having help with her. Hopefully soon I can get the help and support I need for her.
Great video! It covers a lot. Thank you
I apologize for an attempt to comment earlier that was overly long and perhaps was scrapped before reaching you. What I wanted to say was that I was truly impressed with your presentation: for the clear depth of intellectual background, commitment, and sincerity.
I told my boss where to stick his job, sold my house, and downsized to a cheaper lifestyle. Then I was beholden to no one, and while the stress never disappears, now twenty years later I'm happier than ever. Booze, drugs, and therapy are a waste of time. Just liberate yourself and follow your instincts.
I'd love to but the misses won't do that
👍
Good for you man 😃🤘
@@hearliam go PATTEYA..
Medication and therapy can help. It’s simply a chemical imbalance
thank you, this is one of the only things i’ve seen/heard about anxiety that’s actually helped me. thank you so much.
Thank you for touching on all aspects of GAD. Your explanations and solutions to overcoming Generalized Anxiety Disorder are right on the mark in this video.! Fantastic knowledge, advice and solutions in this video. Extremely helpful. Thank you Mark.
Having seen numerous therapists over the years, these videos make more sense than any of them. This guy absolutely gets it, I did have an NLP guy try some processes with no effect but I suspect / hope to combination of understanding and practical tools could crack it. GAD sounds like cptsd which I notice getting triggered but have no idea what interpretation my unconscious has made. All the best to all those brave souls suffering and searching - you are not alone.
my first of your videos, some of it i have heard before, which cemented my practices and beliefs and other ideas are a first. amazing
Thank you so much for sharing this. Your helping tons of people in this pandemic. Me included.
E safe and healthy. Thank you so much
Thank you for this video. I just want to stop thinking something terrible is about to happen or that I'm going to fail and let everyone down!
Great video. This gave me so many ideas on how to help my clients. Thank you.
Hi Mark
and thankyou kindly for sharing your deep insights 🙏
Thank you for making this video. I sometimes suffer from anxiety and this video helped me see anxiety in a more specific way and how to treat it. It's very helpful to me.
Thank you SO MUCH for these wonderful, insightful videos! You are genuinely helping people! Thank you!
Thanks Mark You are doing a terrific Job helping cope
Very smart therapist and this video was highly informative. I really want to see a therapist soon for my anxiety and insomnia
Thank you this is exactly what I had for many years and I didn't know it, it is really horrible living with this.
Wow I’m so thankful I found your video about anxiety! I was in a abusive toxic relationship with an addict and ever since I left my anxiety and panic as diminished! I would get panic attacks in the car. So now a month has gone by I am afraid to drive because I am fearing a panic attack where it is difficult to escape if I need help. Something I need to work on... thanks for this!!
Hi Amanda. I just wanted to say that I had a terrible problem with panic disorder/agoraphobia some years ago so I know something about the condition. I was fortunate enough to get CBT (congnitive behavioural therapy) . I'd just like to say it worked really well for me and I was back to normal in a few months. I recommend you read Aaron Beck - CBT, it'll give you a head start . Panic disorder is very curable. best wishes and good luck
This happens to me as well.
Some of these insights are truly helpful. Growing up in a hard-core religious environment with end-of-the-world scenarios and lots of punishment...there are some things here that really explain some things for me.
Glad I found this video. You could be talking specifically about me! I'd figured out that my constant anxiety was a kind of pathological condition but I didn't know what to do about it other than get a prescription for anxiety medicine from my GP. Your analysis of the anatomy of GAD helped me gain many insights. Thank you very much for this video.
Very helpful video thank u so much 😊
Wonderful video!
Agree, many of us have had trouble minded parents. Verbal and physical offence were seen as "educational" tools. They did nothing else apart leaving miserable wounds and scars in the mind and the body of innocence.
Dr Tyrell, thank you for providing so much help for therapists as well as those of us with various conditions who are looking for help. Your UA-cam channel and website are full of information, kindly and gently expressed.
Great video Mark
Thank you SO much. In these few minutes I had an entire handful of "aha"s. Possibly the most helpful 14 minutes in all of my years of anxiety relief seeking! A million thanks!
ive been binge watching all his videos, and i experience so much of the stuff he talks about, really helping me out so much
Same 😢❤️
*I’ve found that singing ones thoughts in your head, thinking thoughts backwards and finding anagrams in the words, transliterating them into sign language, Morse code, and Braille to be helpful*
Thank you very much!!! You really helped me!!!
Thank you very much for your videos, they help me a tremendous amount
Thank you, you have helped a lot.
Very helpful. Thank you 🙏🏼
Very helpful video. I have forwarded information to my therapist so she can watch it as well as some of the others. My GAD is complicated further by Major Depressive Disorder, Agoraphobia and a bunch of other fears. Due to hyponatremia in the past, I cannot take SSRIs or SNRIs, so all my meds are only partially effective. I agree with the prior comments about never thinking about emotional trauma in the past being relevant. My parents were very overprotective, I'm an only child, and they taught me to fear almost everything, and never untaught me as I got older, so my fears are still stuck in a child's mind in my head. Thank you for the insights you provide on the UA-cam channel.
Shirley Kaye same
Everyone appreciates your insight.
This was incredibly helpful
I live in Connecticut in the U.S. and i do not trust psychologists after years of just absolutely the worst people in the field. I refuse to have my esteem, energy and more demolished from those people. I really really wish i could work with you!
Thank you, really helpful
This video is quite helpful
Very informative, thank you
Very good video. I get a tight throat and pressure in my head and nose, it's a bit scary, anyone else get this? All the best to everybody reading this.
Helpful. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you Mark. Id just like to say that your advice on exercise as aid to lower anxiety is spot on. I hate exercising but it's only thing that helps with my GAD. You do a wonderful job with your advice on youtube.
Fabulous talk..
I enjoyed this video. The English/British accent if so soothing. Reminds me of Harry Potter as a child.
Great advice ...
This is great, Hannibal the cannibal explaining how to treat anxiety.
Listening to Kay’s story is similar to mine and in a way I believe some of my anxiety comes from my fear of also being like that unconsciously after being in such an environment for a while.
Thank you!
Its curable just keep hustling plan a long weekend with friends and family and at the end of the trip you will be free of it for sure... It's my personal experience I had over come severe anxiety with this I was having anxiety of death fear loss 10kg in month but now rocking and back in life🤘😎
Wow
You told me the importants stuffs that even my theraspist didnt knew
Thanks so much. ❤️
Excellent!
Thank you so much
I have been suffering from GAD since 2001. I began addressing the problem in 2007. What I did was talk to my body and exposed myself to the irrational fears I had. Over the years my GAD symptoms have ameliorated greatly. I still suffer 24 hour a day whirlwind sensations and pins and needles on the plant of my feet. However, I no longer suffer from noises and images inside my head as I used to have at the height of the GAD in 2007. An irrational fear I had was blaming myself for tiny errors. For example if I dropped anything in front of other people I would immediately blush. I would then talk to my body as these tiny errors occurred and tell my body, "it's not your fault" then after a while when I made the same mistake I no longer would fear anxious.
@Myco_tripss on instagram No, I've not tried these. Thanks for the suggestion. My GAD is ameliorating with exposure. What I do is secure the body, the more I secure it, the less the GAD.
My anxiety symptom is lightheadedness. Started with an illness, Coeliac disease. I still have it after 20 years.
7:51 "the trouble with too many rules as a child is that it can then be hard to live in a more ambiguous reality. Much of adulthood doesn't have rules, or so sharply defined rules, so [someone with generalised anxiety disorder] may define their own rules, then worry that details aren't accounted for when planning or having things to do"
Do you have a video of your relaxation techniques?
Waiting for your point makes me anxious
yup, I also made a lot of progress using it
And to think, I've been treating my GAD with booze, pot, and suicidal thoughts that come from my inability to hold a job, fit into society and be a functional human being.
Dont try to fit into society
Everybody is unique and has right live uniquely
Ughhhh same
I'm right there with you I hate just feeling numb sometimes.
Minus the weed, same here. Weed makes it worse and alcohol makes it good for a but then bad next day. Lost my job a month ago and every day is hell. Man I'm only 24 I feel like my whole life is ruined and I worry it'll never get any better
Dont buy to the race of social media and company put on us....
We are unique in our on way
Thank you! I enjoyed your videos. Very informative and helpful. Do you believe that a contributing factor to anxiety may be malabsorption of some vitamins and minerals? Like magnesium? These are things constantly overlooked that contribute to the body's homeostasis.
I enjoy listening to your presentations. Your knowledge and experiences add so much insights to your topics. Thank you for this contributions. I am a retired School Psychologist and a Guidance Counselor, National Certified but I am not in practice right now. I have a wife that I suspect is a victim of GAD and a son that is Bipolar. You gave me so many tips on how to deal with them. Thank you so much and continue the good work.
1mg of Klonopin a day and 1 hour of heavy exercise per day got rid of about 85% of my general anxiety disorder.
This is the first time I hear of someone almost getting rid of this disorder!
Yeah but you get heavily addicted to the clonopin
Thank you.
I got fired about 6 months ago for something that wasn't my fault and I am just discovering that anxiety is what is wrong with me. I am not about to tell my life story on all the contributing factors, but my punch line is that I am still not working, mind is going everywhere. It feels like i cannot breathe 90% of the time but there is no way a shrink can physically change someones life(style).
Such is life, its shit but its what we have.
How are you doing now
how are you now ?
That was amazing
very helpful
Thanks