Fear is a natural part of life; letting it control your life isn't.
Fear is normal and a useful emotion. It warns us of danger. Yet sometimes we have an experience that's so frightening we become conditioned by that experience and suffer fearful overreaction at the possibility of similar circumstances occuring again.
Anxiety, fear and phobias -recognizing the signals.
Do you experience panic attacks that seem to come out of nowhere? Do they occur in situations such as freeway driving, crowds, shopping malls, restaurants, social situations, flying, dental visits or for no particular reason?
These attacks produce reactions such as general warmth, sweaty palms, heart palpitations, tight chest, hyperventilation, tight muscles, dry mouth and throat. Sometimes your reactions might escalate, producing dizziness, nausea, disorientation, a feeling of impending doom, and the urge to run, scream or escape from the situation.
Symptoms are often misdiagnosed and mistreated as unrelated medical conditions. Many people go for years before their condition is correctly identified.
Although anxiety disorder is the most prevalent psychological condition in the United States, it is also the most successfully treatable.
Avoidance compounds the problem.
In an attempt to eliminate these frightening episodes, you begin to avoid places where attacks have occurred, believing that the situation is the cause of the attack. Unfortunately, avoidance causes the fear to grow and worsen. It begins to limit your life.
TERRAP teaches you how to avoid panic attacks rather than avoid situations, places or people who seem to trigger anxiety.
TERRAP is a proven and effective treatment program. TERRAP, a contraction for territorial apprehensiveness, is a self-help program designed to teach the individual how to "unlearn" negative thoughts and behavior.
No matter how long you've struggled with anxieties or phobias, or how severe, TERRAP can help you resume a normal, productive and happy life.
Tens of thousands of people have had their lives restored since psychiatrist Arthur B. Hardy developed the TERRAP program in 1963, while serving as president of the Board of Directors of the Mental Health Institute - Palo Alto, California. He pioneered the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety patients and his techniques have been validated in hundreds of clinical trials conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health and leading universities.
Learn how you can control anxiety instead of it controlling you.
You'll learn to set realistic, achievable goals while gaining confidence and building self-esteem. You'll learn effective skills to help overcome fear and to counter the "what ifs" .
Although medication is sometimes used to stabilize a patient for treatment, TERRAP's goal is for long term, lasting results through training the mind and body to a new way of thinking and behaving. This retraining involves the use of a manual, relaxation tapes, reading materials, journaling and desensitization to the stimulus causing the anxiety condition.
TERRAP centers are staffed by licensed, caring professionals who have had years of specialized training. The organization works closely with the medical community and is a member of Anxiety Disorders Association of America and the Mental Health Association. TERRAP is a time-limited, fee fixed, structured program that works.
We have a saying at TERRAP.
"If nothing changes, nothing changes."
