Our dog is having some kind of anxiety attack and pees…what to do?
My so passed away 20 months ago and left us his dog who at the time was 8 months old border collie/husky. She is a smart dog, and cute and funny. We have a kennel and we like to put her in there to sleep at night with our other dog, but she FREAKS out to panting and loud bark and crying, spills her food and water. Or will pee after being out for a walk and pee. So we have been leaving her out, but she pees and I can’t seem to find it, but the smell is waking me up, I have sensitive nose anyhow, but I can not get this smell to go away. I don’t know if its the mattress or the carpet, Its never WET it just smells like her Pee. Please help, we are not getting rid or her and we can’t let the dogs stay outside due to our neighbor (only one on our street with no dog, killed his because it bit a hole in the couch…pure bred husky) because he calls the cops on barking dogs. Our dogs (2) barely bark, its other neighbor dogs…. so what to do??
I am so sorry about the loss of your son.
You can use a black light to locate urine stains on furniture or carpet. Treat any stains with an enzymatic cleaner like Natures Miracle (follow the directions explicitly)
You may try limiting her sleeping area at night. Since she is so stressed by the crate, perhaps consider using a slightly larger space, like an expen or confining her to a bathroom or kitchen area and see if she isn’t more comfortable there.
Pick up all food and water two hours prior to bed time and make certain she eliminates before going to bed and after her last water/food intake.
Online Mindfulness Meditation Therapy For Overcoming Social Anxiety, Low Self-Esteem And Confidence (Boulder Center For Mindfulness Psychotherapy)
Social Anxiety Disorder is a form of phobia, a reactive emotional disorder to a range of social settings that are perceived as threatening, mainly due to the unfamiliarity of the situation. Most of us feel a degree of nervousness in new situations or when asked to speak in public, but those with SAD develop anxiety and panic attacks that can be completely overwhelming, and may result in a person going to extreme lengths to avoid public places or situations that generate the fear reactions. The fear of being scrutinized by others, of making a fool of yourself and extreme self-consciousness can be a major impediment to ones career and social life and may result in feelings of extreme loneliness and shattered self-confidence and self-esteem.
The other distressing effect of social anxiety is that it leads to the proliferation of worrying about upcoming events, imagining all kinds of scenarios with negative outcomes. Even the most basic tasks such as shopping at the supermarket can consume so much emotional energy that it simply becomes easier to give up. So much emotional energy is expended in this endless worrying that we are left feeling completely drained and fatigued, which makes us even less able to cope. In its most extreme form, social phobia can lead to agoraphobia, where it becomes impossible to venture outside the confines of ones home, or very well defined “safe zone.”
Seeking some form of psychotherapy for anxiety disorders is a very sensible approach, and can make a huge difference. Generally, therapies involving cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) are particularly effective, because they aim at changing the underlying beliefs and patterns of negative reactive thinking that create the anxiety. However, what is even more important than the thoughts or beliefs at the core of anxiety conditions are the emotions, the feeling energy that empowers those thoughts and beliefs. This is what we address in Mindfulness Meditation Therapy, which is a form of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). Essentially, you learn how to focus mindfulness on the underlying core emotions and make them the primary object of your meditation. As always, it is what is not seen that has most power over you, and mindfulness therapy is directed at exploring the structure of our inner feelings in great detail.
When you develop a mindfulness-based relationship with your inner emotions you set up a completely different inner environment that greatly facilitates transformation, resolution and healing of the emotional constructs of anxiety and fear. The simple fact is that reactivity inhibits change, while mindfulness promotes change and healing. You first learn to recognize the impulse to react with fear or panic as it arises, and to respond at a very early stage to the impulse with mindful-attention. This simple action stops the reactivity proliferating into worry and negative thinking, and opens up a brief moment of choice, a space before the reaction takes off. This is the beginning of the de-conditioning process. With practice you can develop and lengthen this space, especially in mindfulness meditation sessions, which become practice grounds for developing new ways of responding to your emotions and the associated external situations.
As you develop this space, what is called the “therapeutic space of mindfulness,” you create an opportunity in which the trapped emotional energy that powers the reactions can unfold, unwind and become much more malleable. This inner freedom allows emotions to change and transform, which eventually leads to their resolution. We all know the importance of “facing our feelings.” Well Mindfulness Meditation Therapy provides the method and details of how to do that, and in a way that leads to beneficial change, rather than simply re-experiencing the emotional reactivity. It is a well-established fact that Exposure Therapy, in which you deliberately make controlled contact with your fear or phobia, is an essential part of healing, but the whole point of such therapy is not to simply re-experience the trauma, but to experience it differently. Mindfulness therapy allows you to do this very effectively, and with mindfulness-based exposure therapy your mind will rapidly learn new perceptions and new pathways of experiencing that are not based on emotional reactivity but on balanced responsiveness. This in turn naturally leads to more functional and more positive thinking and more useful core beliefs that are empowered by positive emotional energy, rather than the previous negative energy.
Today, many psychotherapists, counselors and life coaches recognize the widespread need for education in the field of emotional management and self-help, and are offering this in the form of personalized coaching online, particularly through email correspondence and Skype sessions. Online coaching offers many advantages to the client, and convenience has to be one of the greatest reasons why Online Counseling is becoming more and more popular. Another very important advantage of Online Counseling is that it empowers the client, allowing him or her to direct the process in a way that works best. The very process of writing down ones thoughts and feelings and preparing for a Skype videocam session is in itself therapeutic. The Online Therapy process also helps both client and therapist focus on designing specific solutions to specific problems. Often this will involve exercises and “homework” assignments that the client can experiment with at home.
Mindfulness Meditation Therapy is proving to be a very effective approach for online counseling, because it teaches clients how to work with their emotions using a very structured and individualized approach.
Besides face-to-face Mindfulness Psychotherapy sessions, Dr Peter Strong offers the ever-popular Online Psychotherapyand Counseling service, in which he teaches clients specific strategies for working with emotional stress through a combination of email correspondence and Skype sessions. Peter also offers teaching seminars for groups, and companies with an interest in stress management. If you want to learn Mindfulness Meditation, you can also do this by scheduling a Skype session.
You can purchase a copy of his book ‘The Path of Mindfulness Meditation’ through Amazon.
About the Author
Peter Strong, PhD is a psychotherapist, teacher and author based in Boulder, Colorado, who specializes in the study of mindfulness and its application in Mindfulness Psychotherapy for healing the root causes of anxiety, depression and traumatic stress.
Besides face-to-face therapy sessions, Dr Strong offers Online Mindfulness Meditation Therapy through Skype and email correspondence.Teaching seminars are available for groups and companies.
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