Anxiety Therapy: The Role of CBT in Treating Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety can make a person’s world shrink quietly. At first, it may look like ordinary caution. You avoid one difficult conversation, then one social gathering, then the highway, then the doctor’s office, then the email that has been sitting unread for three days. You tell yourself you are being responsible, careful, realistic. Sometimes you are. Anxiety does have a protective function. It warns us when something matters or when danger may be present. The trouble begins w