Anxious Attachment Therapy to Overcome Anxious Preoccupied Attachment.
This journey requires self-introspection, patience, and willingness to overcome. It is an emotional and sometimes severely distressing form of attachment that can affect many areas of your life if not dealt with effectively with an anxious preoccupied attachment therapist.
Also known as preoccupied anxious attachment, this attachment style refers to certain behavior and emotions you may have in a relationship with a significant other.
How do I find an online specialist for anxious preoccupied attachment therapy?
Finding an online specialist for anxious preoccupied attachment can be an overwhelming experience, with so many choices, you may not know which one is best for you.
Our BetterHelp team has made sure that we have made the process of connecting you to the most suitable, eligible, professional anxious preoccupied attachment therapist an easy, stress-free, and seamless one.
Simply fill out this BetterHelp questionnaire carefully and as precisely as you can, we use your answers to match you with the best anxious preoccupied attachment therapists for you to choose from. By filling out this 5-minute questionnaire carefully, you are helping us give you the best possible specialist in anxious preoccupied attachment to help you overcome your challenges.
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What is anxious preoccupied attachment?
Anxious preoccupied attachment is an attachment style that often starts to form in children during their developmental stages.
Anxious preoccupied attachment refers to certain behavioral and emotional habits that you start to possess and portray in a relationship with a significant other, friends and family. This attachment style is a response to unfamiliar situations or events that you may have experienced in your younger years.
Psychologically the brain finds methods of processing these events and sometimes can’t fully understand them, and as a result, this can cause attachment challenges like the anxious preoccupied attachment.
Those who struggle with anxious preoccupied attachment.
Commonly find that they have high anxiety levels, difficulty trusting others, and an intense fear of rejection or abandonment even though they deeply desire close and intimate relationships which are what cause high stress and anxiety levels.
If your anxious preoccupied attachment is affecting or interfering with your relationships and you are finding it challenging to manage and cope, we encourage you to connect with a specialist to guide and support you through overcoming anxious preoccupied attachment.
What are some of the characteristics of anxious preoccupied attachment?
While each will have their symptoms and characteristics of anxious preoccupied attachment, these are some of the most common signs:
1. You have a very negative view of yourself
2. Overall you find it challenging to be confident of have better self-esteem
3. You tend to see others as superior to you and you feel inferior
4. You become heavily reliant on the other person in the relationship
5. You deeply crave intimate relationships
6. You’re afraid of rejection and abandonment
7. You tend to jump to conclusions about people’s behaviors, moods, and emotions
8. You are overly in tune with everyone’s feelings and emotions
Anxious preoccupied attachment in adults can cause damaging effects to your relationship in the future. It is crucial to learn and understand what causes anxious preoccupied attachment and how you can learn to heal and overcome anxious preoccupied attachment with the help of a specialist.
It has been suggested that those who have anxious preoccupied attachment could have developed it as a symptom or result of certain other diagnoses such as;
- Borderline personality disorder
- Social avoidance disorder, or
- Substance use disorder
Identifying your attachment style will help you better understand how you need to heal and overcome your anxious preoccupied attachment, as well as be able to discover the root causes and triggers with your anxious preoccupied attachment therapist.
What causes anxious preoccupied attachment?
Almost all attachment styles are influenced or caused by genetics, childhood trauma, and experiences, as well as emotional and physical interaction with parents or primary caregivers. Whether you realized something may have not been healthy when you were growing up or not, it inevitably remains in the subconscious and develops into various other challenges from mental health issues to unhealthy attachment styles.
Anxious preoccupied attachment is primarily caused by the environment of a childhood household.
If parents or caregivers are emotionally unavailable or inconsistent with affection towards the child, this triggers the development of anxious preoccupied attachment. The anxious preoccupied attachment style can also be caused by an infant absorbing nervous, anxious, or fearful emotions and behaviors of a parent, as well, if you had an overprotective parent, their fears of something happening to you can also create and stimulate anxious preoccupied attachment. Later developing and influencing the way you navigate in future relationships or friendships.
Anxious preoccupied attachment in adults can be triggered by experiences in romantic and intimate relationships where you may have experienced a partner that was inconsistent with love, affection, behaviors, emotions, etc. This causes an immense amount of anxiety and stress, triggering symptoms of anxious preoccupied attachment.
Emotionally abusive relationships also contribute to the cause of anxious preoccupied attachment, if you have ever been verbally or emotionally abused and insulated by a partner, being called incompetent, useless, or unintelligent, or being gaslighted by a partner – this will trigger anxious preoccupied attachment symptoms.
How to heal anxious preoccupied attachment?
As someone who struggles with anxious preoccupied attachment.
You may find that you have challenges in relationships, and on a personal level, understanding and regulating your emotions may be difficult and as a result. This can affect your mental health from time to time.
There is hope and ways to heal and overcome anxious preoccupied attachment. Research shows that over time and with the help of therapy for anxious preoccupied attachment, attachment styles can change and become much healthier. It is advised that if your anxious preoccupied attachment is becoming increasingly difficult to manage and is affecting your well-being or your relationships, reach out to a professional anxious preoccupied attachment therapist through BetterHelp that would be happy to guide and support you.
If you’ve identified that you have an anxious preoccupied attachment style;
Here are a few methods you can try when coping with your attachment style:
1. Learn and develop healthy and effective methods of communication.
This will help you maintain relationships and understand your loved ones better, as well as help them understand you as well.
2. Practice self-esteem boosting techniques
Learning to become more independent and confident can help you feel more comfortable and capable of managing and controlling your emotions.
3. Healthy self-care
Self-care is the key to healthy mental wellbeing. If you are feeling anxious and overwhelmed, create self-care techniques that you can rely on.
4. Create meaningful connections
Surround yourself with good company. Positivity from others can go a long way if you’re feeling a bit down.
Please note that these steps are to help cope with anxious preoccupied attachment. We recommend using this knowledge and information to seek professional help from an anxious preoccupied attachment therapist.
How does Online anxious preoccupied attachment therapy work?
Online anxious preoccupied attachment therapy is a method of treatment for anyone who has an anxious preoccupied attachment style. We understand that the process to find a new therapist that you can connect with and feel comfortable with is overwhelming and stressful.
With online anxious preoccupied attachment therapy sessions, you can have all the benefits and more effective healing therapy all from the comfort of your home. An affordable, convenient and effective method of therapy that you are fully in control of.
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How will Online anxious preoccupied attachment therapy improve my life?
With direct access to your anxious preoccupied attachment therapist, you have the benefit of doing things on your terms. You will learn more about what anxious preoccupied attachment style is, and how and what causes anxious preoccupied attachment style. Your therapist will also be able to guide you through developing coping methods that will help you heal and overcome your anxious preoccupied attachment.
Through these intimate therapy sessions, you will gain the confidence, strength, and motivation to be the best you and manage your emotions in the most effective and healthy ways. Your life will be free of anxiety and fear.
For further information on online methods of therapy and counseling services, please visit:
- Why do i get emotionally attached so easily
- How to heal from anxious attachment
- Top 7 Avoidant attachment deactivating strategies
- How to overcome fearful avoidant attachment in relationships
- Dismissive avoidant attachment treatment
- Secure attachment therapy
- How to overcome attachment reactive disorder in adults?
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