How Persistent Anxiety Affects Relationships

Excessive anxiety impacts many facets of one’s life. One facet is how it significantly affects relationships, social interactions, and family life. Here are some of the ways excessive and persistent anxiety can impact your relationships that you may not have known about:

• It Can Cause Avoidance BehaviorPeople with social anxiety tend to avoid social situations or conflicts to prevent their anxiety from worsening or to prevent embarrassment from anxiety attacks. Avoidance behavior can become a hard-to-break habit that affects performance or attendance at school, work, and social gatherings.
• It Can Increase the Risk of ConflictAnxiety disorders can cause heightened emotional sensitivity and reactivity, causing irritability, anger issues, and poor impulse control that can increase conflicts within a relationship with a significant other, family, friends, or colleagues. Address anxiety to help you preserve relationships and bonds with our psychiatric rehabilitation program in Maryland.
• It Can Increase the Risk of Controlling BehaviorControlling behavior, such as excessively dictating the actions or choices of your partners or loved ones, can lead to resentment in the relationship. Anxiety disorders can increase the risk of controlling behavior because regaining control is a way many cope with anxiety. Our psychotherapy services in Halethorpe, Maryland, can help you address anxiety and other mental health issues to help prevent problematic actions like controlling behavior and more.

  For more information about our mental health services in Maryland, feel free to call Resolution Health and Wellness Center LLCat 410-275-0928. Our services can help address and treat mental health issues, teach coping skills, and many more.