4 Ways Therapists Say People With Anxiety Get Stuck — And How To Get Unstuck

“A vast number of patients in my practice have benefited from work we have done to catch ‘the stories’ that we tell ourselves, and realize what is real, and what is made up,” said Dr. Alex Dimitriu, who’s double board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine and founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in California. People with anxiety aren’t always great at playing the long game, Dimitriu said. “With this loss of nuanced thinking and tendency towards hurried solutions, people with anxiety are bad at holding a course — when that is exactly what is needed for most interventions to work,” he said. “People with anxiety get ‘stuck,’ because they overthink and question everything, and don’t have the patience to work on a solution that may take time — they give up too easily, or they are too doubtful to start.” Dimitriu said you need to stick with something at least two months to see if it helps.

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