Understanding your mental health is an essential step on the road to recovery. For those seeking help for substance use disorder (SUD), anxiety and attachment styles can profoundly influence behavior and relationships.
At ALANA Recovery, we’re here to help you understand the connections between mental health and addiction while providing the tools you need to heal and grow. If you’re ready to start this process, call 770.759.7474 today for information about our anxiety treatment program or other specialized services.
What You Need to Know About Anxiety
Feeling anxious occasionally is normal—nerves before an interview, exam, or significant event are natural. But for some, anxiety becomes constant, interfering with daily life. Anxiety disorders can impact relationships, work, and everyday tasks.
Physical symptoms often include fatigue, trouble sleeping, restlessness, and difficulty concentrating, along with feelings of fear, worry, and panic. Anxious attachment styles also play a role in shaping relationships and behaviors.
What Is an Anxious Attachment Style?
An anxious attachment style is a way of relating to others rooted in childhood experiences. People with this style often fear abandonment and crave reassurance and approval. It’s walking on eggshells in relationships, constantly worried about rejection. These patterns usually carry into adulthood, making it hard to form secure, trusting relationships. Adults with this style might display behaviors like:
- Constant need for reassurance
- Difficulty trusting partners
- Fear of conflict or being disliked
- Excessive worry about otherothers’ions
Anxious attachment can impact not just relationships but also how someone handles stress and anxiety overall.
What Are the Types of Anxiety Disorders?
Anxiety covers several conditions, each with different symptoms and severity, but all share the trait of causing persistent worry or fear that disrupts daily life. Common types include:
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Panic disorder
- Social anxiety disorder
- Phobias
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Experts once classified post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as an anxiety disorder, but they now consider it distinct. These disorders can overlap and often coexist with other mental health challenges, like addiction.
Can Anxiety Conditions Co-Occur with Addiction?
Yes, anxiety and addiction often go together. Whether caused by trauma or an underlying mental health issue, many people use substances to self-medicate. While this may offer short-term relief, it often worsens anxiety over time, creating a harmful cycle.
Anxious attachment styles can also link anxiety and addiction. Those who feel insecure in relationships may turn to substances to fill emotional gaps or ease social distress. However, this usually leads to more problems in their relationships and mental health.
How an Anxiety Treatment Program Can Help
When anxiety or anxious attachment is affecting your recovery, treatment can make all the difference. Seeking help allows you to understand yourself better and learn tools to manage triggers and stress. Here’s how an anxiety treatment program can help:
- Therapeutic tools – Evidence-based treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) help reframe and manage anxiety.
- Building secure attachments – Therapy can address anxious attachments and help develop more trusting relationships.
- Stress management – Programs teach mindfulness, meditation, and other techniques to reduce overall anxiety.
- Dual diagnosis support – For those with addiction, treating anxiety and substance use together promotes complete healing.
- Personalized care – Treatment is tailored to your challenges to help you overcome harmful patterns.
With professional guidance, it’s possible to break free from the barriers anxiety creates. You don’t have to do this alone.
Take the First Step Toward Healing with ALANA Recovery
Anxious attachment and anxiety can feel overwhelming, but they don’t define your story. If anxiety or its link to addiction is holding you back, help is just a call away.
At ALANA Recovery, we combine compassion and expertise to help you heal. From rebuilding relationships to improving mental health and achieving lasting sobriety, we’re here to support you through our anxiety treatment and co-occurring rehab programs. Call us today at 770.759.7474 or use our online contact form to take the first step in your healing process. A better future is waiting for you.