Is anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try?

When it comes to treating anxiety disorders, research shows that therapy is usually the most effective option. That’s because anxiety therapy – as opposed to anxiety medication – treats more than just symptoms to the problem.

These are common symptoms of anxiety:

• Nervousness, restlessness or being tense
• Feelings of danger, panic or dread
• Rapid breathing or feeling you can’t breathe
• Increased or heavy sweating
• Trembling or muscle twitching
• Weakness or lethargy
• Difficulty focusing or thinking clearly about anything other than the thing you’re worried about
• Insomnia
• Inability to get certain thoughts or ideas out of your head
• Worry surrounding a particular life event or experience that has occurred in the past
• Worry about what will happen in the future

Therapy can help uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears, teach you how to relax, look at situations in a new, less frightening way, and help you develop better coping mechanisms and problem-solving skills.