For those struggling with anxiety, it can affect every part of your everyday life. Smaller symptoms can snowball and cause damage to school performance, careers, family dynamics, personal relationships, and more. Irrational behavior is quite common for people with anxiety.
Anxiety is a mental health condition that a mental health professional should treat. Don’t let anxiety wreak havoc on your life. Instead, get help now so that you do not continue bad habits and bad relationships, such as an anxious attachment. The Right Step can help guide you to an anxiety treatment program that works for you and your unique needs. Call us at 17135283709 or connect with us online today.
What Is an Anxious Attachment Style?
Anxious attachment styles can form due to the following:
- A neglectful or inexperienced parent raising you
- Long amounts of time spent in a hospital without everyday family interaction
- Being raised by parents or caregivers with mental health issues
- Trauma in childhood
- Being a child of divorce
While relationships are an important part of living a full life, there is a difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships. For those with anxiety, it is common to form what are known as anxious attachments. This is usually the case because of learned behavior from parents and other role models in one’s life. If you have grown up with harmful attachment styles, then healthy relationships are not something that will come easily to you.
What Are Different Attachment Styles?
Anxious-Ambivalent
Most commonly seen in people with low self-esteem, this attachment style makes people feel anxious on a regular basis, resulting in the fear that others don’t want to be with them.
Anxious-Avoidant
With this type of attachment, anxiety makes people avoid attachments altogether, and they rely on being independent in all aspects of their lives.
Disorganized
For those whose anxiety stems from trauma in their youth, this style is common. They are fearful of close attachments and not sure they are deserving of a healthy relationship.
Secure
The healthiest type of attachment style, secure relationships, are a two-way street where each person can be empathetic and feel safe in the relationship. Unfortunately, this type is rare in people struggling with anxiety.
If you have trouble with creating healthy relationships, then an anxiety treatment program may be right for you. Call on a treatment center like The Right Step to guide you on your treatment journey.
What Are the Types of Anxiety Conditions?
An anxious attachment style can be directly related to the type of anxiety someone is experiencing. Depending on the mental health condition, it can exacerbate the symptoms of an anxious attachment style. Types of anxiety disorders include:
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Social anxiety disorder
- Panic disorder
- Phobias
Anxiety affects approximately 20% of Americans and is the most commonly diagnosed mental health disorder. Anxiety can develop as a result of many things, including childhood trauma and family history. Without recognizing the symptoms of anxiety, it can go untreated for many years and have a long-term negative impact. This is why getting treatment for an anxiety disorder is so important.
Get Help for Anxiety Today at The Right Step
Recognizing symptoms and triggers of an anxiety disorder is key to getting the help that you need. In addition, learning—or re-learning—how to form healthy relationships will ensure that you have the right support system in place to maintain recovery. Enrolling in anxiety treatment allows you to engage with peers, professionals, and family in a therapeutic setting using a variety of therapeutic modalities that can help you. This can include traditional talk therapies, behavioral therapies, and even experiential therapies like yoga or art.
Call The Right Step today at 17135283709 to learn more about treatment options for anxiety. You can also fill out our online form and let us get back to you.
