Psychotherapy: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

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Psychotherapy consists of a course of treatment with a qualified mental health specialist, such as a psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychoanalyst. The course lets the specialist find out what produced an anxiety disorder and a way of treatment the symptoms of disease.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is very helpful and highly recommended in treating anxiety disorders. The cognitive component assists people to change the thinking patterns that do not let them overcome their fears. The behavioral component tries to change the way of reaction to situations that provoke anxiety.

For example, with a help of CBT sufferers of panic disorder can learn that panic attacks they have are not really heart attacks. CBT assists people with social phobia to overcome the fear that they are always judged and watched by others. People learn the exposure techniques to desensitize (less sensitive) themselves to conditions and circumstances that trigger their fears.