Once upon a time, anxiety was critical for keeping us alive. In today's world, though, it piggybacks on the kind of chronic, low-level threats that leave many in a state of constant anxiety.

People with generalized anxiety disorder feel continually tense and anxious over things that wouldn’t normally bother a person to that extent, and treating a client with generalized anxiety disorder can feel daunting for a therapist.

In this video I'll share with you some simple steps that I find useful when helping people with GAD. I talk about how the portrayal of general 'potential threats' in the news and other media can make us feel anxious (0:52), but if you would prefer to skip to the first tip then this begins at 3:24.

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0:00 Introduction
0:52 How the modern world turned a survival response into a psychiatric disorder
1:57 'Knowing my brain is on high alert doesn't help'
3:25 Step 1 - Find the pattern
4:12 Step 2 - Find the missing needs
6:37 Step 3 - Find the origins of the
8:59 Step 4 - Find the exception times
10:30 Step 5 - Find ways to minimise worry
11:28 Tip 1 to stop worrying - Discover what does actually worry the client
11:34 Tip 2 to stop worrying - Help the client begin to detach from the worry by
11:56 Tip 3 to stop worrying - Examine thinking styles that may be making your client prone to worry
12:15 Step 6 - Relax your client deeply