When Your Emotions Betray You

There’s a reason it’s called anxiety DISORDER.

That’s because those feelings don’t really match the situation or are vastly greater than what the situation calls for.

In a world that states, trust your feelings, that is about the worst advice when those feelings are owing to a disorder.

As a disorder, your feelings are actually betraying you.

The whole thing about CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) is about using your head to process the situation instead of your gut.

Think about it.

Seriously. Think about it.

Process situations with your head, not your feelings and you are less likely to be held hostage by the disorder.

That’s how CBT works.

You can even do that on your own.

Just start by acknowledging your feelings are betraying you and think it through. Then act.

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Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. Gary is the host of the TV reality show, Newlywed, Nearly Dead, former parenting columnist for the Hamilton Spectator and author of Marriage Rescue: Overcoming the ten deadly sins in failing relationships. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.