Stress, anxiety and loneliness can signal a time for reflection and change, and does not necessarily require therapy.
As I walk around my neighborhood, listening to podcasts, I am bombarded by ads hailing the virtues of online mental health services: “Are you stressed,has been declared an epidemic. Psychological suffering can signal a time for reflection and change, but it does not always require therapy. There are many resources that can help alleviate stress, anxiety and loneliness without turning to the limited resource of a therapist.
“Most of the time, anxiety is a healthy human emotion,” Dennis-Tiwary wrote in an email. “And the only way to learn to cope is to build skills in experiencing and working through anxiety.” What can become more problematic than the anxiety itself is the “meta-anxiety,” or the anxiety about our feelings of anxiety, she said.
Making changes to improve your life is like gardening — you have to dig into the soil, plant seeds of change, tend to the fragile new plants and flowers to make sure they survive, give them water and nutrients, and remove weeds. A therapist can help when mental health symptoms make it hard to grab the shovel to start, but most people can be their own gardeners.
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