9 Strategies for Addressing Abandonment Anxiety: Quickstart Guide

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Video by Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes on integrative behavioral health approaches including counseling techniques and skills for improving mental health and reducing mental illness.

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[DocSnipes]

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[sadiqaisha]

I think my fear of abandonment comes from my pre-teen years where I had to form meaningless friendships to avoid the intensity of the bullying I went through. Those friendships lessened the name calling, insults simply because I wasn’t a lone wolf. But in a way, I had to maintain the friendships by people pleasing, being overly giving etc. As a 23 year old today, I struggle with being committed to friendships. I can’t connect deeply even though I crave it. Ironically, I can quickly make friends but I feel like I’m just pretending because I genuinely don’t enjoy the person’s company. It’s a strange dynamic I know but it’s my reality

[sensei_oogway]

I've been left by my dad, best friend of 13 years and many other friends and relationships too, my mum is emotionally unavailable and always told me to deal will stuff and got angry if I was ever emotional which was rare
Now I'm with my girlfriend who gives me so much love and attention but I'm scared and paranoid she's gonna leave for every tiny reason or things I've linked togther due to my pessimism, so this video helped more thankyou

[Tobreakthecycle]

Overcoming is never passive. It’s never just “think this way” or “try to stop doing this.” There’s always active action involved in proving something to your brain or rewiring the thought process. In my case, my abandonment issues stemmed from zero emotional support from either of my parents, on top of that, my father would often use my vulnerabilities against me in arguments. This caused me to put up lots of walls with people, so now when I get close to a girl (I’m a guy) I get crippling anxiety about being left now that I’ve been so vulnerable with someone. Therefor, my active actionable step was to practice being very vulnerable with more people and strengthen this side of me. Opening up about personal topics, showing people I care by complimenting them in ways I normally wouldn’t, asking them how they’ve been and that I’ve missed them, etc. Basically things that show my caring vulnerable side more. It had to be worked like a muscle, or calloused like hard skin. In short, find your weakness, and hammer at that weakness by continuously exposing it and you will see REAL life changing results

[judysiegel]

What I don’t like about many of peoples’ content is they only give examples of people who can secure some type of relationship to begin with. What about us who are so broken we can’t even date?

[cshortridge]

Doc Snipes I love the way you say the word "child". ❤️ I know it's your Tennessee accent but it just makes my heart sing every time. ♥️

[jcap]

I have subscribed and been listening to a few of your episodes. I seem to self destruct when it comes to really getting close. I have an amazing woman now and although there are two to tango, I seem to try and find things that aren't really wrong or bad but I overthink everything and cause uncomfortable moments and make it worse. It even comes into fighting or myself being overly emotional. Thus it gets worse and I can't come back from it. Or feels that way. I'm trying to finally get help being so much older I want to finally get it right.

[anjalijha]

I just found this channel & subscribed. Really helpful content.

[dr_candiru]

Love the journaling prompts. Thank you so much

[Goldieloxs]

Dr. Snipes, thank you. You are my new go to lectures and sites to learn more about the MH field, which I am apart of in a recovering way. I wish to be a MH assistant to give back and bring hope to a community of people who struggle. I earned my CASAC-T 8 yrs ago, but did nothing with, besides my internship which was wonderful but I am learning drugs and alcohol are but symptoms of Mental health disorder. It’s this true in all cases? Regardless I like your style of clarity, kindness and empathetic way. I find you easy to understand, having my own Diagnosis of Bipolar that is a never ending our new of therapy and a great Psychology. I function at a level I never thought possible. I was undiagnosed most of my adult life and grateful I found a. Wonderful facility that on an outgoing outpatient find myself thriving. I can’t afford school presently so am self learning until I can find an affordable vocational place to learn even if I wind up volunteering 2 days a week. Thank you

[huntjones]

Parents had a bad divorce and mom was just gone at age 7 and I’ve had difficulty with almost every adult relationship I’ve been in.

[n.maharaj]

Hi Doc Snipes please do a video on how to deal with the uncertainty of will I ever get into a relationship and how to handle being single?

[jasono]

So I believe that in addition to my abandonment issues, I suspect that I may also be on the autism spectrum in some capacity. I have a very hard time discerning how someone is perceiving what I'm saying, especially if it's in a text message or something where I can't actually see the person or hear their tone of voice to assess the situation. In the age of social media, I have more online and long distance friends than I do local friends, and this usually causes me to go down the rabbit hole of catastrophic thinking because most of my interactions with friends are through text. Do you (or anyone) have any advice for this? Do you think it would help to just straight up tell people I struggle with this? I want to communicate to my friends that I have these issues, but I don't want them to take it the wrong way

[salravioli]

I’m ugly so it happens all the time. Well back to the weight room.

[CODENAMECRISISOFFICIAL]

I cant tell the difference between self-love and pure narcissism. Fml

[CapitanTavish]

You don’t need these videos if you fail to even find a girlfriend ahahah .. jkg very useful even if I constantly fail to even start a relationship