Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “avoidance”
A recent conversation with a patient (call him Bill) brought up a pattern we’ve seen before: his anxiety scores on tests for levels of anxiety have not improved, but Bill reports that he is feeling more in control of his life, the anxiety has less power over him now. Like many people with severe anxiety problems, Bill uses procrastination and …
Avoidance behavior, or avoidance coping, is a way of trying to stay calm by trying not to pay attention to disturbing thoughts or feelings. Avoidance may work in the short run, but it also tends to take a short term problem and make it a long term one. James Edgar Skye, a bipolar blogger we follow, has a blog post …
Maybe because it’s summer, and everybody’s thinking about vacations, or maybe it’s just a coincidence, but we’ve been spending a lot of time talking with people these past two weeks about taking a break from treatment or drastically cutting back on treatment, etc. All of it has us wondering about how to think sensibly about these types of decisions. After …
