5 Things to Do When You Are Dating Someone with Anxiety
Helping Someone with Anxiety
Dating someone with anxiety can be challenging if you don’t know or understand what anxiety is or how best to help when your partner is feeling anxious. It can be difficult watching someone you love struggle with anxiety. And it can leave you feeling helpless and overwhelmed.
Thankfully, there are some things you can do that are helpful. Listed below are 5 things to do to help someone with anxiety. If you are able to try these 5 things it can help make you a better partner to your anxious loved one and help you to feel more in control and feeling less helpless the next time your loved one experiences an anxiety attack.
My anxious clients will tell me a lot about their own anxiety and they tell me how their anxiety can cause issues in their relationships and marriages. During our sessions, we spend time talking about ways to communicate with their partner and how their partner can be helpful if they are having an anxiety attack or panic attack.
I am an anxiety therapist in Wilmington, NC. I specialize in counseling for women. I provide anxiety treatment, treatment for perfectionism, burnout counseling, and treatment for imposter syndrome. My therapy practice is online and based in Wilmington, NC.
I provide virtual therapy to anxious high achieving women located in Maryland and North Carolina.
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5 Ways to Help Someone Overcome Anxiety
Tip #1: Practice Patience and Listen
So many times the anxious person doesn’t feel validated or understood by others. Sometimes people that have anxiety need extra time to process through their thoughts and feelings. I always encourage the non anxious partner to be understanding and open to listening what is happening when your partner is feeling anxious.
Tip #2: Do Your Own Research
It is super important and helpful for the non anxious partner to do some of their own research on what is anxiety, common signs of anxiety, and different types of anxiety including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder. Here are some other helpful blogs to get you started:
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5 Helpful Strategies to Manage a Panic Attack
Tip #3: Communicate with Your Partner
So often the non anxious partner may feel helpless when the anxious person is experiencing anxiety. The non anxious partner tends to offer solutions for anxiety. The anxious partner may not need solutions to fix anxiety but instead may need comfort in the moment. Being able to talk and have open communication about the anxiety can be helpful for both parties when managing anxiety.
Tip #4: Give Support
As the non anxious partner, your job isn’t to fix anxiety or your anxious partner. Instead, be supportive and give your anxious partner encouragement to seek therapy. There are so many resources available for in-person therapy appointments and online anxiety therapy.
Tip #5: Know What Not to Say
Whatever you do please do not say “just calm down”, “don’t worry”, “it’ll be fine”, and “stop worrying.” These phrases often can make anxiety worse, are judgmental, and invalidating. When you are talking with your anxious partner ask them what they need to hear in moments when anxiety is high.
These 5 tips to helping someone with anxiety are just to get you started. I would encourage you to really speak with your partner and get a good understanding of what is helpful for them. Your anxious partner may already have some great coping skills to manage anxiety and sometimes just need to be reminded of the things that work.
If your loved one is interested in therapy for anxiety and resides in Maryland or North Carolina encourage them to reach out and schedule a free 15 minute consultation. Also check out these helpful blog posts to get a better understanding of starting therapy for anxiety.
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If your loved one struggles with anxiety realize there is help for anxiety and they can get anxiety relief. Remember to be supportive and encourage them to get therapy for anxiety.
I am an anxiety therapist in Wilmington, NC. I provide therapy for women and specialize in anxiety treatment, treatment for perfectionism, burnout counseling, and treatment for imposter syndrome. You can learn more about me and my Wilmington, NC counseling practice here.
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Anxiety Counseling in Wilmington, NC
Calm Waters Counseling is an online only therapy practice located in Wilmington, NC and offers virtual appointments to anxious high achiever women entrepreneurs in Maryland and North Carolina.
Online Therapy for Anxiety at Calm Waters Counseling
I am a licensed social worker in Maryland and North Carolina and can offer online therapy to anyone living in these two states.
To learn more information about online therapy in these two locations click on the locations below.
ONLINE Anxiety THERAPY IN MARYLAND
ONLINE Anxiety THERAPY IN NORTH CAROLINA
If you would like to learn more information about online therapy check out this helpful blog where I give the pros and cons and how to get started in online therapy with me.
Is Online Therapy Right for Me?
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If you still have some questions click the button below where I give a lot of answers to the questions you may have or find out how to get started in therapy with me.
By: Laura Rippeon, LCSW, LCSW-C
Updated 3/12/23