Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment
If you’ve been treated before for an anxiety disorder without much progress, Kentuckiana Treatment Center for Anxiety & OCD is different. Our program teaches evidence-based tools that dismantle and disrupt tormenting symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Take back control of your health and your life. Contact us at (270) 238-3566. We serve patients in Kentucky and Indiana.
What GAD Looks Like
GAD is not a general anxiety diagnosis that’s given when a person’s anxiety symptoms aren’t better explained by something more specific. No, GAD refers to generalized or widespread anxiety. Similarly, GAD refers to anxieties that a person has about many different events, activities, and future unknowns — all at the same time.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms
- People who suffer from GAD tend to be plagued by excessive worry most of the day, nearly every day.
- They spend significant time thinking about and planning how they’ll deal with certain situations. This excessive thinking is called rumination.
- Health
- Future
- Money
- Work
- Family
- All people with clinical anxiety engage behaviors that are intended to help them feel less anxious and more in control. But for people suffering from GAD, these behaviors tend to be invisible, mental acts, rather than physical compulsions visible to others. The trouble is, the more they ruminate to try and feel better, the more they remain urgently aware of their anxiety. And the cycle continues.
Think of GAD This Way
Think, for example, of a tornado versus a hurricane. The path of destruction left behind by a tornado tends to be comparatively narrow or isolated, but the destruction left behind by a hurricane is usually widespread or generalized. Generalized anxiety disorder causes widespread anxiety or destruction in almost every area of life.
Effective Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
At Kentuckiana Treatment Center for Anxiety & OCD, we teach cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) skills and strategies to manage the anxiety cycle. There’s no such thing as having no anxiety about anything. But there is such a thing as healthy anxiety.
The most important step in how we treat GAD is to teach our patients how to “get out of their head.” Usually, this process takes about only 16 sessions. You will get better and have the proven strategies to maintain your progress over time.
Break Free from Anxiety
Experience relief through evidence-based treatment methods.
What We Treat
In addition to GAD, we successfully treat the following diagnoses:
For more information about Kentuckiana, see our Who We Are page. And be sure to listen to our OCD Straight Talk podcast for the anxiety disorders community.
Why Choose Us
We get results — even for patients who’ve been in treatment for years.
We use evidence-based ERP treatment; most other therapists use talk therapy.
We teach you how to stop rumination, problematic behavior, and compulsion.
Our patients get better faster and usually stay better.
Help for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
If your anxiety is keeping you from living the life you want to live, let’s manage it. Get back into the swing of things at Kentuckiana Treatment Center for Anxiety & OCD. Contact us at (270) 238-3566. We serve clients in Kentucky and Indiana.