Grew up learning from family how to live with &implement distorted behavior. Now this terrific outline for helping me help myself, I thank you! Your uses of CBT & The Stoics are life saving.
Thank you Donald, here’s a related issue, my son who has small children has told me reading particularly distressing stories in the news about children is affecting him badly for some time. People these days have to live with unrelenting bad news stories. What techniques can people use to deal with this and can finding it difficult to deal with negative exterior news be a sign of underlying anxiety? Thanks again for all the great resources you provide
Well, it's difficult to comment on something like this from such a distance. To really offer advice on anxiety you normally have to assess the individual thoroughly. But in general, yes, this can be a way that people respond to news if they're prone to worrying or generalized anxiety, albeit sometimes of a relatively mild sort. There are many ways they can deal with it. Some techniques are hard to describe in a few sentences, and should be taught by a therapist, but, essentially, it's usually best not to avoid exposure to upsetting news completely but rather to limit the amount of time spent ruminating about it, which can be done just by postponing it to a set time and place each day, and through the use of some other simple techniques.
Grew up learning from family how to live with &implement distorted behavior. Now this terrific outline for helping me help myself, I thank you! Your uses of CBT & The Stoics are life saving.
Thank you Donald, here’s a related issue, my son who has small children has told me reading particularly distressing stories in the news about children is affecting him badly for some time. People these days have to live with unrelenting bad news stories. What techniques can people use to deal with this and can finding it difficult to deal with negative exterior news be a sign of underlying anxiety? Thanks again for all the great resources you provide
Well, it's difficult to comment on something like this from such a distance. To really offer advice on anxiety you normally have to assess the individual thoroughly. But in general, yes, this can be a way that people respond to news if they're prone to worrying or generalized anxiety, albeit sometimes of a relatively mild sort. There are many ways they can deal with it. Some techniques are hard to describe in a few sentences, and should be taught by a therapist, but, essentially, it's usually best not to avoid exposure to upsetting news completely but rather to limit the amount of time spent ruminating about it, which can be done just by postponing it to a set time and place each day, and through the use of some other simple techniques.
Donald, this is so wonderful - such clear, detailed AND helpful teaching! Send me & each of us readers a bill - a big one!