Writing about how anxiety can ruin relationships, PsychCentral blogger Peg Streep asks, “Is This You?”
Here are four common patterns that amp up both your worry and your reactivity. Learning to recognize these triggers is the first step in getting into the present that’s really the present, unfiltered by the past. Awareness of these underlying patterns is the key. The examples are drawn from stories shared with me.
1. You’re overly sensitive to possible slights
2. You need constant reassurance about everything
3. You want to depend on people but it makes you crazy
4. You personalize everything
Details in the article at PsychCentral.