Why Coping Strategies Can Backfire

Anxiety symptoms and sticky minds are maintained by several distinct processes: these include avoidance, negative reinforcement, entanglement, and paradoxical effort. The failure of common anxiety management tools can be attributed to inadvertently triggering and maintaining these mechanisms, even while diligently using the coping tools. We have talked about this in past blogs and books, and encourage you to look at these for additional details.

Here is why you might be getting demoralized and stuck with only partial relief: Coping skills aren’t the complete answer: It is the attitude with which skills are applied that makes the crucial difference. READ MORE