Working with Anxiety Disorders by Jeeda Alhakim https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr en-us 2023-10-12 11:39:03 UTC 2025-10-17 14:23:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f635.png GAD and Health Anxiety https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3635994760 2025-10-16 14:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3635994760 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3635995545 Social anxiety

GAD

Panic attacks


]]> 2025-10-16 14:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3635995545 A sense of structure? https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3635996122 2025-10-16 14:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3635996122 Lingering sense of angst and the need to structure. https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3635997066 2025-10-16 14:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3635997066 The process https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636000660 The ability to stay with the client and remain in the process of the client, their speed and their journey in working through anxiety. A Health anxiety presentation was used in some sense to gain attention in the therapeutic relationship, and was a function of deeper underlying processes and issues.

]]> 2025-10-16 14:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636000660 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636006548 Anxiety kept finding something new to latch onto. So the challenge was to understand the function of the anxiety and work on that rather than just the symptoms

]]> 2025-10-16 14:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636006548 Where to start? https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636043745 DSM criteria can pathologise normal worry and fear, especially everyday stress. E.g. I find that some clients come in looking for a diagnosis of anxiety for what they describe as everyday worry.


The 6-month rule and “clinically significant distress” is subjective and and unhelpful.


As a counselling psychologist I often question whether the DSM medicalises natural emotional responses to real-life adversity. When it become problematic to function I think this is different and where more attention should be placed


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I always see high comorbidity of anxiety disorders which makes me feel that depression and anxiety are overlapping spectra, not separate diseases.

Hence, the reading I have done this wee on researchers like Krueger (1999) and frameworks like the HiTOP or RDoC advocate dimensional, transdiagnostic models.


]]> 2025-10-16 15:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636049484 A system limited by categorical, Western, and rigid symptom-based nature. https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636059061 2025-10-16 15:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636059061 GAD, Phobia, Panic attacks https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636121527 2025-10-16 15:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636121527 panic https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636121897 2025-10-16 16:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636121897 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636195277 Social anxiety

Specific phobias (vomit phobia)

Health anxiety

]]> 2025-10-16 16:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636195277 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636197073 An appreciation for the ways in which anixety can be regarded as a primary "disorder" vs. when it is simply a symptom in an array of symptoms that occur alongside other issues.

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]]> 2025-10-16 16:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636197682 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636199609 When designing behavioural experiments that require tolerating a certain amount of anxiety, how to equip the client to be able to withstand the undesireable feeling.

]]> 2025-10-16 16:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636199609 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636203144 In some ways I think anxiety disorders can quite easily be explained by science, e.g. evolutionary functions of fight/flight/freeze, cognitive behaviour theories of learning, etc. I suppose the degree to which anxiety is regarded as as disorder rather than one kind of experience we have...

]]> 2025-10-16 17:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636203144 GAD, Health Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Panic, OCD, PTSD, Hoarding sairamahmood1 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636315068 2025-10-16 18:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636315068 Discomfort and a desire to fill the gaps. sairamahmood1 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636343839 2025-10-16 18:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636343839 Feelings of guilt and shame clients can experience, in particular when working with presentations of OCD rumination. Being able to balance offering a non-judgemental space and pacing sessions to allow clients to express themselves safely. sairamahmood1 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636351510 2025-10-16 19:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636351510 terror, discomfort, an opportunity to surrender https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636459197 2025-10-16 21:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3636459197 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637467309 Social anxiety, health anxiety, OCD, specific phobias,

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]]> 2025-10-17 10:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637468091 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637469902 There is rarely just a single anxiety/ worry, and there are other comorbidities. When working in a time limited way in services, it can sometimes be hard (for both client and therapist) to decide what direction to take the intervention

]]> 2025-10-17 10:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637469902 GAD and Social Anxiety https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637721465 2025-10-17 14:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637721465 GAD, health anxiety, panic https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637721730 2025-10-17 14:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637721730 OCD , GA, PD https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637722164


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]]> 2025-10-17 14:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637722519 Anxiety and rumination https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637722693 Often with anxiety, I had challenges with clients that ruminate and overthink that even going through thought records or ABC formulations, it's difficult for them to break the cycle

]]> 2025-10-17 14:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637722693 a resistance and discomfort https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637722931 2025-10-17 14:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637722931 A lot of worry and frustration https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637723089 2025-10-17 14:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637723089 gad/ocd/panic/specific phobias https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637723192 2025-10-17 14:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637723192 Ways to explain anxiety to those with stigma or cultural differences https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637723480 2025-10-17 14:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637723480 Formulation https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637724020 It would be nice to gain a step by step formulation working with anxiety

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]]> 2025-10-17 14:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637724435 GAD ,OCD, BDD(Is that classified as AD?) https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637724797 2025-10-17 14:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637724797 Inevitability https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637724985 2025-10-17 14:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637724985 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637725147 How to work with anxiety when the client also presents with low mood

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]]> 2025-10-17 14:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637725784 Other expectations of the client https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637725882 2025-10-17 14:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637725882 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637726634 Nervousness, the feeling of I don't know what the hell I'm doing

]]> 2025-10-17 14:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637726634 Useful if disordered, otherwise I think it can perpetuate it a little https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637727049 2025-10-17 14:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637727049 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637727892 How a counselling psychologist would approach anxiety that is distinct from other psychological professionals (formulation, treatment, review, working in an MDT service, long-term plan)

]]> 2025-10-17 14:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637727892 Anxiety in response to systemic injustices/discriminative systems. https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637730785 2025-10-17 14:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637730785 Anxiety and neurodivergence https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637731150 2025-10-17 14:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637731150 Health anxiety in response to real threat to physical health and day-to-day safety (due to health condition). https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637731691 2025-10-17 14:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637731691 https://padlet.com/drjalhakim/pp5grmio7njkxmyr/wish/3637734887 How to work with anxiety when the anxiety is valid, e.g. anxiety around being able to provide for a family when there are financial difficulties within the family

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