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Panic Disorder – Patrick Tully is Here for You

Panic Disorder: You are Not Alone

Patrick Tully helps those who suffer from panic and knows that panic disorder is extremely uncomfortable. Patrick Tully is a gay LA therapist and conducts therapy in Los Angeles as well as Culver City. Patrick also is known for therapy in Pasadena as well as all over California as his license covers the entire state. Patrick can help with therapy in Florida and therapy in Texas and consult in any state.

Patrick Tully has multiple specialties, including LGBTQ Affirmative therapy for the gay and LGBTQ+ community.

Panic disorder has greater disparity amongst the LGBTQ+ community, and a peer-reviewed study by Jeffrey Cohen and other authors, Anxiety and Related Disorders and Concealment in LGBTQ+ Populations by Jeffrey Cohen and others stated how panic disorder is experienced at a significantly higher level in the LGBTQ+ community compared with the rest of the population. Because panic disorder is so high in LGBTQ+ populations, it leads to gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual and gender minority individuals hiding their identities from other people. This is extremely tragic that people need to do this to try to feel better to fit into our still heteronormative (seeing “straight” as the norm) society. We need to do much better about seeing different gender identities and sexual orientations as normal on both the conscious and unconscious levels, and this means examining even bias that we all may not be aware of, both within and outside the LGBTQ+ community.

Patrick Tully uses CBT, EMDR, DBT, and evidence-based collaborative tools to help all his clients feel better and heard in their sessions. He believes the past and present can play a role as well (psychodynamic), and often combines modalities depending on what the individual needs.

In this blog post, panic disorder is the specific condition that is examined and expanded upon.

Understanding Panic Disorder

Unexpected and repeated panic attacks that are extremely uncomfortable and uneasy to come back from are the norm in people who have panic disorder. It is far more severe than people who simply suffer from panic attacks, as people regularly have these panic attacks and on a very intense level. There is often no warning that there will be a panic attack and that is very scary. The functioning of an individual with panic disorder can be impaired on a day-to-day basis due to the uncertainty and severity of the disorder. Millions of people suffer from panic disorder.

Panic attacks are waves of anxiety that to the individual can feel very much like a medical crisis is occurring. But the reality is this is not the case. Oftentimes, people will have gone to the ER to confirm their symptoms are not a heart attack, and feel ashamed, and this makes the person feel worse, when all they did was look out for their health.
This condition becomes complex and challenging, but it can be managed. The panic attacks have a time range that varies from a few minutes to a few hours.

There can be triggers to panic attacks or they can happen out of nowhere. If there are triggers, then knowing what precipitates the triggers can be useful as part of the treatment.

Physical and Emotional Components of Panic Disorder

Both physical and emotional components understandably accompany the panic attacks and also remain afterwards. Because the nervous system is activated, and the fight-or-flight response is on high alert, it is to be expected that the person would feel drained afterwards physically. Emotionally, the person will likely feel shame, even though the do not deserve this feeling of shame. This comes from having gone through the panic attack and feeling as if they have no control over it, and perhaps if they have sought assistance, they have felt as if they are a burden to someone else.

Stigma and Panic Disorder

It is important to remember that as a society, we still emphasize full autonomy, and unfortunately do not remind people that asking for help is a good thing. We do not do this enough or at all. There is a stigma when we need help over something that we do not know how to control, and panic attacks are very overwhelming experience.

Patrick Tully Will Assist in Your Journey

Patrick Tully has experience helping people as an LA therapist helping with anxiety disorders including panic disorder and panic attacks. As a Los Angeles therapist, Patrick Tully can help you with panic disorder and panic attacks. As a Culver City therapist, Patrick Tully can assist in the understanding the causes and treatment of panic disorder. As a Pasadena therapist, Patrick Tully can help in your understanding panic disorder and panic attacks, which are part of anxiety disorders. Even if you’re in another part of California, Patrick Tully’s license covers all of California, so he is a therapist in California who helps with panic disorder and panic attacks. Patrick Tully is a therapist in Texas, and Patrick Tully is a therapist in Florida! He helps the LGBTQ+ community as a specialty but will help anyone who suffers from this overwhelming disorder which can feel unavoidable.

Not Knowing What To Do: We Often Resort to Avoidance

When we suffer from panic disorder and the constant panic attacks, we understandably turn to avoidance of certain places, situations, anxious thoughts, in the hope of trying to alleviate the condition. What has been found in doing so is that this avoidance only reinforces the panic as the anxious messages are reinforced paradoxically in a way, as they return to find new places, situations, and thoughts where panic can occur. Only by targeting those underlying messages and proving that they are not true, and the associations are false, do we find relief. This is possible, and through exposure therapy, which is done strategically with a trained therapist, such as Patrick Tully. Relief is in sight.

Patrick works with multiple types of anxiety disorders

Patrick has experience working with many types of anxiety, in addition to panic disorder, including social anxiety, specific phobias, generalized anxiety, work-related anxieties, and more.

Harmony is Here. Reach Out Today!

You deserve harmony in your life again. Please fill out the contact form or email Patrick Tully at: patrick@patricktullytherapy.com. You can trust that you are in the right hands! You can also text Patrick at 323-819-0747.

Social Anxiety – Patrick Tully Helps YOU

Patrick Tully is a Los Angeles therapist who also is a therapist in Culver City and a therapist in Pasadena. He also is a therapist in Texas, and a therapist in Florida.

Social Anxiety Disorder Manifests in Many Ways

Social anxiety disorder goes far beyond being shy. While shyness may cause discomfort when in social settings, its clinical manifestation can significantly impede everyday functioning and compromise a person’s life overall. Social anxiety disorder affects millions of people worldwide and is characterized by an intense fear of social situations, interactions or performances that makes people anxious in everyday social settings. Individuals suffering from social anxiety often feel nervousness in everyday social encounters that interferes with their ability to function well in social environments and can significantly interfere with daily living activities.

People often feel a sense of not feeling capable of even leaving their homes, much less socializing, attending events, or socializing. This is how pervasive the disorder can be for someone who has it.

By avoiding and using avoidance as a strategy to cope with social anxiety disorder, the social anxiety builds and becomes more powerful. The person misses out on social events and no longer interacts with friends.

How strong the symptoms are for each person with social anxiety disorder varies, but it is extremely uncomfortable, and no one with the disorder wants to have it.

Oftentimes, eye contact is extremely challenging, as people fear judgment from others. People who have social anxiety disorder fear that they are ugly, or they do not measure up in some way. The cognitive distortions in their mind tell them that they are these things without any real proof that they are true.

The people who are affected are suffering and often do not know what to do. They do not know that treatment exists.

Patrick Tully Can Help

Patrick Tully, who offers therapy in Los Angeles, who also helps with offering therapy in Pasadena, therapy in Culver City, and therapy in Texas, and therapy in Florida, can help people with Social Anxiety Disorder, and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Exposure Therapy to help with Social Anxiety Disorder. Patrick Tully is a gay therapist who uses LGBTQ Affirmative therapy and many people seek gay therapists as social anxiety affects those in the LGBT community, as cognitive distortions can be so pervasive, as we try to fit in and the messages starting from childhood, and continuing can fuel our social anxiety.

It is common for social anxiety to manifest physically, such as through nausea, sweating, trembling, having a faster heartbeat, and feeling dizzy. Of course, if one feels that they may feel something else may be at play, such as a medical condition, then they should ask their medical doctor just in case. But any form of anxiety can bring about physical symptoms, including social anxiety. This is due to the body’s fight-or-flight response being in overdrive. The fight-or-flight response results from the nervous system sensing any sort of threat. Dizziness, trembling, shallow breathing, sweating, and other symptoms are commonly associated.

Negative Thinking Patterns Become Pervasive

People can be very negative in their thinking patterns with social anxiety and their thoughts about themselves can be very harmful. Some examples might include that the person thinks that they are not interesting to other people, they are not doing enough to satisfy demands in certain ways, or that they are unattractive. These beliefs occur without any real concrete proof. Or the proof occurs because a random bully might have said something negative to the person years ago that really was about themselves (what we call “projecting” in psychology). Projecting is how people might maladaptively deal with insecurities, and one way they deal with it is label someone else as having that insecurity. Of course, that ends up hurting the other person, and people with social anxiety can suffer with hurtful words as a result.

Self Confidence Can Decline with Social Anxiety Disorder

Self-confidence takes a big hit from social anxiety and declines when left untreated. The person who has social anxiety often feels self-conscious or ashamed to be around other people and dislikes being around other people. The result is that they never end up being around others or in any social environments.

Self-Criticism Increases…

Another situation that affects people who deal with social anxiety is difficulty speaking, as people often describe that their minds are jumbled in thoughts. People with social anxiety can end up feeling isolated because they feel as if nothing they do is good enough. They become very harsh critics of themselves.

Social Anxiety Can Be Caused by Multiple Things

Social anxiety disorder could be passed through families and genetics can play a role. But this does not mean you are stuck with it for life. There are treatments for it. Environment can also contribute to social anxiety disorder.

Trauma can play a role, such as a childhood bully telling you negative things or something else that really tore you down. You may have had social interactions that did not go well that you still remember or may not remember that well but still affect you.

Natural predispositions can lead to more likelihood of social anxiety disorder, such as shyness. Shyness is a natural personality trait that should not be viewed negatively. In the objective sense, it can potentially lead to social anxiety.

Treatments to Help Social Anxiety Disorder

You Can Seek Out Therapy

Patrick Tully Treats Social Anxiety

Patrick Tully is a gay therapist who uses LGBTQ Affirmative therapy and many people seek gay therapists as social anxiety affects those in the LGBT community, as cognitive distortions can be so pervasive, as we try to fit in and the messages starting from childhood, and continuing can fuel our social anxiety.

Social Anxiety Disorder disproportionally affects those in the LGBTQ+ community: Verywell Mind – Living with Social Anxiety Disorder as an LGBTQ+ Person

Medications for Social Anxiety Disorder

Medications can help with the thoughts racing through your brain and help regulate their intensity as you work through therapy. It is always your decision, but this is one option, as there are now non-addictive medications available, and multiple versions if one has not worked as well as you hoped. But it is only an option and should be discussed during a consultation with a psychiatrist or prescriber that specializes in mental health.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

There is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety that can help you with your thoughts by helping you with which ones have proof and which ones are more or less likely to be true. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy comes with homework and exercises that require commitment to repeated tasks but ones that will bring you lasting relief from the intrusive thoughts that social anxiety disorder brings.

Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

Exposure therapy is a part of cognitive behavioral therapy, and involves gradual exposure to environments in a way that is slow and steady, so you feel a slight adjustment but it is planned out in collaboration with your therapist.
Support groups can also be a useful resource as you can navigate social anxiety with other people who are also dealing with the effects of it. In addition, it can be a way to help you become more social. It can help normalize the experience.

Patrick Tully can help with different types of anxieties

In addition to Social Anxiety Disorder, Patrick Tully helps with phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, workplace anxiety, and other types of anxiety. Patrick can utilize CBT, exposure therapy, and other evidence-based practices depending on the client’s needs and collaboration between the client and therapist. Patrick always works with the client individually when determining what their needs are, and what they hope to gain out of therapy.

Patrick Tully Can Help You for Social Anxiety Disorder

Patrick Tully, a therapist in Los Angeles, has worked with many people with social anxiety disorder of varying degrees, , and is a therapist in Culver City, and is a therapist in Pasadena, and knows how challenging it can be to deal with the intrusive thoughts of the disorder. He wants to help you feel better! If you are in Texas or Florida, he can help you too!

Gay Anxiety Therapy in LA and Culver City

Relief from Anxiety and Support from an Experienced Gay Therapist at Patrick Tully Therapy

A licensed therapist in Los Angeles, Culver City, and other parts of California, and Texas, and Florida!

Anxiety is Rampant in the LGBTQ Community and you are not alone. It can arise from many factors and be painful to deal with.
So many people deal with anxiety, stress, and overwhelm that can be managed and deserve compassion. You will get that with Patrick Tully.

Whether you are in LA, Culver City, in other parts of California, or even in Texas, or Florida, you will be able to see Patrick Tully.

Be sure to visit Patrick, a Los Angeles, Culver City, Pasadena therapist, and California therapist, and a therapist for people in Texas and Florida Anxiety therapy page to be informed on how overwhelming anxiety can be.

This post delves deeply into how hard anxiety hits those of us who have it and also how the LGBTQ+ community is hit harder.

Whether in the LGBTQ community or not, you can have anxiety. But those in the LGBTQIA+ community are so much more likely to be adversely affected by mental health struggles, and being a gay cis man, Patrick Tully understands and has been trained in evidence-based modalities that will help you feel better, and he will listen to you. Patrick’s methods are not checkbox-based or impersonal. They are highly personalized and tailored for your needs.

LGBTQ Affirmative Therapy is naturally combined into every therapy technique when working with people within the LGBTQIA+ community. Patrick believes and research continues to show you cannot separate affirmative therapy from therapy treatment as lived experience must be validated.

Anxiety manifests in many ways. It can be generalized, in that many situations can trigger anxiety. It can be a phobia of a specific event or feared object. Social anxiety is a specific form of anxiety that makes it hard for people to socialize. If someone has social anxiety but no other form of anxiety, that means that anxiety would not deeply impact other parts of the person’s life.

Separation Anxiety is another form of anxiety where someone has a fear of leaving someone specific. They may fear something bad will happen if they do not.

Anxiety can be managed, no matter what the form. It feels like it cannot be, because of the fight-or-flight reaction of the nervous system wanting to escape the situation. Patrick Tully, a Los Angeles therapist, can help those with anxiety alleviate their suffering.

Anxiety is a real issue that deserves real attention, and these various forms can feel embarrassing but they should not be. They are often just overactive responses in our brain from just the way we have formed habits. We need to alleviate stigma and realize more people have anxiety than we think. Patrick knows it is easier said than done.

You will NOT be shamed in a session with Patrick. You deserve relief! Anxiety can manifest in insidious ways that can feel so strange and tricky. But that’s why there are specialists like Patrick Tully, who have been trained to help people like you deal with anxiety.

You are not alone. Please reach out by filling out the form below or at Contact Patrick or by emailing him at patrick@patricktullytherapy.com. You can also leave a message by calling (323) 819-0747. You can expect to hear back within 24-48 hours.

You deserve freedom from anxiety, and Patrick is an anxiety expert in Los Angeles who can help process through the anxious experience and help navigate through it. Don’t hesitate to ask any questions!

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Looking for a Gay Therapist in Culver City – Call Patrick Tully

There are many incredible therapists in Culver City and the surrounding Los Angeles area. But sometimes, it’s helpful to talk to someone that understands your experiences – someone that shares your background, your challenges, and your way of thinking.

As a gay therapist in Culver City, I see many patients in the LGBTQ+ community that desire a better understanding of self. While they may be struggling with conditions like anxiety and depression, they also know that their experience is unique in this world – different from the cis, straight men and their privileges. For anyone that prefers to talk to an LGBTQ therapist in Culver City, contact me today via my online form.

What I Can Help With

My goal as a therapist in Culver City is to *see* you. I want to know who you are and I want to make sure that you feel safe, cared for, and welcomed. I recognize the role that therapists played in my own acceptance of who I am and the growth that I’ve made as an individual. I want to be that support person for you. I can help you with LGBTQ affirmation. I can also help you address common conditions such as:

Anxiety
Depression
Creative Blocks
Work Stress
Couples Counseling

Many of my clients are from the LGBTQ community. But I also work with cis-women and cis-men that also feel more comfortable talking to a gay man than other therapists. I’m here to help you feel safe, heard, and respected. I also use a variety of evidence based strategies, including CBT, to help my clients in Culver City and Los Angeles receive the help and support they deserve.

Let’s Get Started – Call and Let’s Make A Connection

Therapy is science based and effective. But there’s also the importance of that initial connection between the therapist and the patient. The more you can trust me to help you, the more effective counseling will be. If you’re in need of a gay counselor in Culver City to help you navigate the challenges that you may face in life, please call me today for an introduction.

Gay Employees in Los Angeles, Culver City, California, Texas, and Florida

Gay Employee Who Feels Isolated for Various Reasons?

Unpack Through Your Stress with Patrick

Are you an LGBTQIA+ employee who feels excluded at work? Are you feeling stressed out or not sure how to present yourself in perhaps a heteronormative environment? Or maybe the culture is very inclusive, but there’s a lot of baggage for you to unpack and you just want a therapist who won’t judge you and give you space so you can examine patterns. Patrick is a Los Angeles therapist who can help you! He also helps people all over California, including as a therapist in LA, Pasadena, as a therapist in Culver City, as a therapist in Texas, and as a therapist in Florida.

Patrick Tully has a lot of experience working with people looking for jobs, whether they are considering other positions or jobs, or not. He has extensive experience in tech fields as well as the art fields! He has extensive post-graduate doctoral education in industrial and organizational psychology working in different levels of the workplace and understands how nuanced and complex these can be. Therapy is the one place where you can feel free to share things without worry because the therapist MUST uphold confidentiality as their number one priority above all else as part of their client’s safety. Patrick helps with stress in the workplace in LA, Culver City, Pasadena or any area in California. And Patrick is a gay therapist who is able to work in Texas and Florida with gay men who are experiencing work stress, including anxiety, career transitions, and professional relationships. You can also view the anxiety therapy page.

Other people in the LGBTQ community also experience discrimination and workplace stress and deserve relief. Patrick Tully can be reached by email and will do his best to reach out to you within 48 hours if you fill out the form on this website or email him at patrick@patricktullytherapy.com

Work on Practical Work Matters with Patrick Tully in Los Angeles, Culver City, Texas, Florida. Your Cover Letter and Resume will be Polished

Patrick has experience working on resumes and practical things so if you need help with this, he can help you! Cover letters crafted for the employer are so important but Patrick can help you get this done faster!!!

Patrick also enjoys working with other gay and LGBTQIA+ inclusive businesses being a gay cis man himself. Employees’ comfort at work is crucial. Gay employees, gay owners, LGBTQ employees and owners must feel comfortable and able to express their needs collaboratively, without feeling like an “other.” Patrick works in the Culver City, Pasadena, and Los Angeles areas. He also is able to see people in Texas and Florida.

Experience from Multiple Layers of Bureaucracy Enables Patrick to Understand Your Concerns

Patrick works with employers and employees on every level, including systemic change, from even forms, interactions with colleagues and customers, and microaggressions whether conscious or not. Non-violent communication is a skill and one that is essential. We are here to collaborate and learn from each other and also with the combination of a consultant we can further the company to be one that is powerful and aligned. And be one that is viewed by everyone as friendly.

Reach out today! Remember, Patrick can help you as a therapist in Culver City, as a therapist in Los Angeles, as a therapist in Pasadena, as a therapist in any part in California. Patrick can also help anyone in Texas and Florida.